Overview

Dating 1562, Libro de I scretti & ricette, also known as the Jesuatti Book of Remedies (MS Pryce E1), is a collection of medical remedies written by friars in the Order of Saint Jerome in Luccain, Italy. The Book of Remedies is one of few detailed accounts of therapeutics of its time. With over two thousand recipes and working drawings, the manuscript provides unique insight into late Renaissance drugs and the methods of determining their usefulness.
 
The manuscript was a generous gift to the KU Special Collections and KU Medical Campus from the estate of the late KUMC Dean Stata Norton Ringle and her husband David Ringle. 
 
Published in 2010, Stata Norton Ringle’s Digital Edition of the Jesuatti Book of Remedies is comprised of the full manuscript facsimile and full TEI markup of the text in both the original Renaissance-era Italian along with an English translation. Ringle's detailed markup links text to its place in the manuscript images. 
 
The edition was originally created using a combination of TEI and XSLT on the open source platform XTF. In 2020 the Book of Remedies was migrated to Islandora to be included with items in the digital collections. With the loss of XSLT, the edition is no longer interactive. However, all the TEI and plain text files remain available for download. There are no immediate plans to restore this edition.

The project also has a twitter bot by Brian Rosenblum. 

News

Erickson, M. (2013, July 18). Late dean, husband leave $10 million gift for KU, Med Center. LJWorld.Com. https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2013/jul/18/late-dean-husband-leave-10-million-gift-ku-med-cen/

Healey, E. (2017, July 19). Kenneth Spencer Research Library Blog » Jesuatti Book of Remedies. Inside Spencer: The KSRL Blog. https://blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/tag/jesuatti-book-of-remedies/

KU announces $10 million estate gift from Stata, David Ringle. (2013, July 18). The Topeka Capital-Journal. https://www.cjonline.com/article/20130718/NEWS/307189815

Publications

Norton, S. (2003). Experimental Therapeutics in the Renaissance. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 304(2), 489–492. https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.102.042291

Norton, S. (2005). The Origins of Pharmacology in the 16th Century. Molecular Interventions, 5(3), 144. https://doi.org/10.1124/mi.5.3.2