Collection of medical treatises for practising physicians

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Title: Collection of medical treatises for practising physicians
Alternative Title: [Medical manuscript : in Latin ; containing several, mostly anonymous, tracts].
Published / Created: between 1350 and 1399.
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a collection of medical treatises intended for practising physicians. Includes: Tiriaca magna Galieni, De urina, Egestio, De purgationibus, Contra februm, Sirupus contra tertianam, De sudore; and ends with a collection of recipes for flegma and colera
Description: In Latin.
Title devised by cataloger.
Script: southern gothic textualis.
Decoration: one decorated five-line initial (f. 1r). Two-line initials in red ink. Rubrication throughout.
Layout: double columns of 34 lines.
Binding: modern brown morocco binding.
Early modern foliation: 1-8.
Provenance: Some contemporary marginal notes. Donated to the Yale Medical Historical Library in 1959 by David P. Wheatland.
Extent: 1 item (ii + 8 + ii leaves) : 258 mm x 190 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Topic): Materia medica
Medicine
Manuscripts
Medicine, Medieval
Subjects: Materia medica > Early works to 1800
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval > Early works to 1800

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