University of California, Los Angeles. Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. Manuscript. Benjamin Collection 5. [Fuer das Urin oder Stein].

Item Overview

Title

University of California, Los Angeles. Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. Manuscript. Benjamin Collection 5. [Fuer das Urin oder Stein].

Date Created

ca. 1350

Date

1301/1400

Place of Origin

Germany

Collection

History and Special Collections for the Sciences Collection
Index of Medieval Medical Images

Notes

Summary

Written in German about 1350, probably in Germany, this treatise includes a traditional urine wheel chart for diagnosing with urines on the basis of color. Captioned in Latin and carefully tinted with watercolor, the circular diagram has been cut into pieces and pasted into the German text. Manuscript owned by the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Keywords

Genre

manuscripts (document genre)

Resource type

still image