Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of the Chirurgia (ff. 1r-25r) and the anonymous Chirurgia Salernitana or Bamberg Surgery (ff. 26r-41r).
Alternative Title:
Chirurgia : Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg", Chirurgia, Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg", and Bamberg Surgery
Description:
In Latin., First title from title page. Second title assigned by cataloger., Script: late carolingian minuscule., Decoration: ff. 1r-25r: one large twenty-line red initial; one- to three-line red initials with decorative flourishes. Ff. 26r-41r: one three-line red initial with gold background and blue floral decorations, two-line alternating red and blue initials. Rubrication throughout., Layout: ff. 1r-25r: 1 column of around 4o lines; ff. 26r-41r: 1 column of 33 lines., Binding: original wooden boards covered with tawed sheepskin. Cover has title and notarial sign in black ink. Remnants of 2 fore edge clasps closing to back cover., Bound with 14th-century fragment used as front pastedown, containing Ps-Bartholoaeus Mini De Senis's Tractatus de Herbis. Incipit: debent poni in ... Explicit: Syr[upus] acetos[us] val[et]., Place of production: origin said to be Italian. However, paleographical evidence points to a German origin. Fore edge clasps closing to back cover points to Spanish or Southern French origin of binding., and Available also on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Surgery, Medieval
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing Hippocrates' Aphorisms with Galen's commentary (translated by Constantinus Africanus), Galen's Tegni with Haly's commentary (translated by Gerardus Cremonensis), Hippocrates' Prognostics with Galen's commentary (translated by Gerardus Cremonensis), and Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum I-III with Galen's commentary (translated by Constantinus Africanus or Gerardus Cremonensis). Translations are from Arabic to Latin. Other Latin translations (without commentary) of Tegni, Prognostics, and De regimine acutorum in lower margins added late 13th Century., In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothic cursiva., Decoration: one 18-line initial on f. 1r in blue and red initials; 3- to 2-line red and blue initials. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of about 39 lines., Binding: vellum over pasteboards. Manuscript spine title: Hippocrates et Galeni opuscula / MSSS AE CXIII., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing books 1 (1r-97v), 2 (98r-195r), 4 (196r-303v), and 5 (306r-) of Avicenna's Liber Canonis or Canon Medicinae. Book 3 wanting. Collection of short medical texts follows: "Distinctio mensuraru[m] [et] ponderu[m] ex breuiario alfebyr" (342v-343r), "Distinctio ponderu[m] [et] m[en]suratu[m] ex breuiario filii sarapionis" (343r), "Pondera medicinalia signa conati sum[us]" (343r-343v), and the Secreta Ypocratis (343v-344v): "Peruenit ad nos [quia] cu[m] ypocras morti ap[pro]pinquaret". Also includes incomplete alphabetical index of medicial herbs (a-c; leaves iii verso-iv recto) and index of Arabic names: Incipiu[n]t expo[s]itiones nominu[m] arabico[rum] Auice[n]ne (leaves 345r-348v; Alfirdafu-Zicibil).
Alternative Title:
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Latin, Liber canonis, and Liber canonis medicinae
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: several large puzzle initials in red and blue; alternating red and blue two-line initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of 53 lines., and Binding: modern light-brown calf over pasteboards. Spine title in gold-tooling: Avicenna / Canon Medicinae / MS Saec. XIV.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of a collection of works by Galen. Includes: De elementis, De complexionibus, De malitia complexionis diversae, De juvamentis membrorum, De differentiis febrium, De criticis diebus, De interioribus, De simplicibus, De regimine sanitatis, and De medendis febribus ad Glauconem (ff. 1r-233r); all translated from Arabic into Latin by Gerardus Cremonensis. Also includes De alimentis (ff. 233r-264r); translated from Greek by Gulielmus de Morbeka. Concludes with Galen's Commentum super libro VI epidimiarum Hippocratis (ff. 264v-268r), translated by Johannes Alexandrinus
Alternative Title:
De elementis, De complexionibus, De malitia complexionis diversae, De juvamentis membrorum, De differentiis febrium, De criticis diebus, De interioribus, De simplicibus, De regimine sanitatis, De medendis febribus ad Glauconem, De alimentis : all translated into Latin from the Arabic by Gerardus Cremonensis and others ; except the last treatise, translated from the Greek by Gulielmus de Morbeka
Description:
In Latin., Script: southern Gothic texualis., Decoration: Rubrication (stops f. 173). Spaces left for decorated initials., Layout: written in 2 columns of 50 lines., Binding: modern 3-quarter brown leather binding over pasteboard., and Catchwords enclosed in double-lined and decorated rectangles at bottom of page.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of texts by Aristotle: Physica (f. 1r), De caelo (f. 74r), De generatione (f. 131v), De anima (f. 151v), De memoria (f. 177r), De sensu (f. 180r), De somno (f. 189r), De longitudine et brevitate vitae (f. 198r), Meteorologica (f. 218r), Metaphysica (f. 251v). Also includes Costa Ben Luca's De differentia spiritus et animae (f. 200r), Nicholas of Damascus' De plantis (f. 206r), Pseudo-Aristotle's Liber de causis (f. 332r), and Nicholas of Amiens' Ars fidei catholicae (f. 335v).
Alternative Title:
Opera varia
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Layout: 2 columns of 37 lines., Decoration: contains 12 historiated initials: the Lord separating water and earth (f. 3), the Lord creating Heaven and earth (f. 74), the soul delivered rom the body (f. 151), five men at a table (f. 180), man sleeping (f. 189), the living and the dead (f. 198), young men in front of a tree (f. 206), the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (f. 206), meteors falling from heaven (f. 218), Christ appearing to a philosopher (f. 261), philosopher visited by angels (f. 332), dispute between two monks and a young man (f. 335r). Also, 29 ornamental initials in red, blue, and polished gold. Titles and subheadings in red and blue; rubrication., Binding: 20th-century brown leather half-binding over wood. Includes metal clasps and leather straps closing on the front cover. Remnants of the previous blind-stamped brown leather binding preserved separately., Note by Frater Nicolaus de Probstdorf: Isti libri naturales deputati sunt ad usum fratris Nicolay de Probstdorf lectoris. Et sunt empti pro II marcis argenti., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Philosophy
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand, of a collection of works by and commentaries on Hippocrates. Includes Hippocrates' Aphorismi (translated by Constantinus Africanus) and Prognostica with commentaries by Galen; Galen's commentary on Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum (translation attributed to Constantinus Africanus and Gerard of Cremona); and a commentary by ʻAlī ibn Riḍwān on Galen's Tegni (translated by Gerard of Cremona). Diagram with a classification of all nature on f. 143v. Copious contemporary marginal notes throughout
Alternative Title:
Articella and Hippocrates Aphorismi, Prognostica, De regimine acutorum : cum comment. Galeni ; Ali Ibn Ridwan Commentum super Tegni Galeni
Description:
In Latin., Title from headings., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: eight-line initials in red ink with blue flourishing. Text commented upon is underlined in red., Layout: 2 columns of around 50 lines., Binding: 15th-century blind-tooled brown leather binding, with metal furniture (originally 10, now 4) and clasps (closing on the front cover, wanting). Manuscript note on front cover with shelfmark: h188. Rebacked., Pagination added in modern pencil., This manuscipt was formerly believed to have been written in an Italian university (Padua). There is no evidence to support this., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Articella, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, in several unidentified hands containing a collection of various medical treatises. Manuscript consists of tree sections bound together. First part contains several works by Aristotle (all in William of Moerbeke's recension): De anima (ff. 1r-26r; marginal commentary by Thomas Aquinas), De somno et vigilia (ff. 26r-37r), De generatine et corruptione (ff. 38r-55r), De causis (ff. 56r-61r), De motibus animalium (ff. 62r-63r, beginning imperfect), De memoria et reminiscentia (ff. 63r-66v), De longitudine (ff. 67r-69r); and Henricus Monachus' Tabula ad inveniendum Pascha (f. 70r). The second part (15th c. date on the basis of paleography) contains Johannes de Sacrobosco's Algorithmus (ff. 70v-74r), De sphaera (74r-81v), and Compotus ecclesiastius (82v-98r), the anonymous' De simplici et composito quadrante (98r-100v), Robertus Grosseteste's De sphaera (ff. 101r-106r) and Compotus (ff. 106r-124r), Campanus de Novara and Robertus Grosseteste's Tabulae (ff. 124r-126r), Expositio tabule de annis Arabum Magistri Campani (f. 126r), De pratica quadrantis (ff. 127r-130r), Chylindrus (ff. 137r-139r), Compotus manualis (ff. 139r-142r), and Gerardus Creonensis' Theorica planetarum (ff. 143r-155r). The third part (14th c. date on the basis of decoration) contains Prophatius Hebraeus' Tractatus quadrantis novi (ff. 156r-171r), and the Tabula ad sciendu quantum cum quolibet gradu zodiaci... (f. 171v) Ends with two diagrams (ff. 172v-173r) and a table the fixed stars (f. 173v)
Alternative Title:
De anima, De somno et vigilia, De generatione et corruptione [etc.] : [the Tabula ad inveniendum Pascha of Henricus Monachus, followed by selections, mostly astronomical and arithmetical, from Johannes de Sacrobosco, Robertus Grosseteste, Johannes de Ahrweiler, Gerardus Cremonensis]
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothica textualis., Decoration: decorative red and blue initials, and several hand drawn maps of the fixed stars. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of around 40 lines., Binding: 15th-century brown pig-skin binding, blind-tooled. Contemporary pig-skin tabs attached to fore-edges to demarcate beginins of new texts. Traces of straps from back to front cover. Traces of metal bosses on front cover and 3 holes in triangular formation for chain attachment on back cover. Label on front cover: Algorism[us] ... / Sper materialis / Compo[si]tus philosop[] / uel custod[]. Label on back cover: Sphaera materialis / Joannis de Arweilerio. Quadra[n]s / nouus Probacii Hebrei 1554. Note on binding on inside front cover: Anno domini MCCCCLIIII. Ligatus est iste liber per reuerendum patrum fratrem Matthiam Halddenof suppriorem conuentus wiennensis., Date of the first and oldest part is based on scribal note (f. 26r): Explicit liber de anima petri Rodeheym. Amen. Anno domini MCCLXXXXI in uigilia pentecostes., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Aphorisms, Medicine, Medieval, Manuscripts, and Psychology
Illuminated manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, including a collection of forty-six texs concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery and Includes: Ysagoge Joanicii ad tegni Galeni (ff. 1-14), Liber aphorismorum Ypocratis (ff. 14-30), Pronosticorum Ypocratis liber (ff. 30-40), Liber urinarum Theophili (ff. 40-53), Philareti de negotio pulsuum (ff. 53-57), Tegni Galieni (ff. 57-91), Anatomia Ricardi (ff. 91-104), Anatomia Mauri (ff. 104-107), Anonymous tract on bloodletting (ff. 107-108), Versus urinarum Egidii (ff. 109-113), Egidius de pulsibus (ff. 113-118), Galen's De medicinis experimentatis (ff. 121-140), Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum (ff. 141-152), Aphorismi Joannis Damasceni (ff. 153-159), Hippocrates' de aqua et aere (ff. 161-172), Hippocrates' de veritate (ff. 172-175), Hippocrates' de secreta (ff. 175-177), Isaac Judaeus' De diaetis (ff. 181-268), Liber de ponderibus (ff. 268-270), Geraldus' De signis digestionum (ff. 270-329), Liber divisionum Arazi (ff. 331-469), Synonyma (ff. 470-477), Cirurgia (ff. 479-636), Rasis' de doloribus iuncturarum (ff. 639-664), Rasis' de curis puerorum (ff. 664-671), Collection of medical recipes (ff. 671-675), De virtute visibili (ff. 675-683), Tacuinum sanitatis (ff. 685-768), De mineralibus (ff. 769-772), Epistola Ameti filii Abrahe de proprietatibus (ff. 773-780), Liber vaccae (ff. 781-811), Cirurgia Bruni (ff. 813-924), Cirurgia Bruni brevis (ff. 924-941), Cirurgia Rolandi (ff. 943-1018), Roger de Barone Major et minor de medicamentia (ff. 1019-1168), Macer de virtutibus herbarum (ff. 1171-1197), De vertutibus gemmarum (ff. 1197-1201), Liber herbolarii (ff. 1203-1317), Isagoge Dauci (ff. 1319-1325), Guillelmi falconerii (ff. 1325-1329), De cura equorum (ff. 1330-1375), Regulae equorum (ff. 1375-1377), Recipes in 14th- and 15th-century hands (ff. 1378).
Alternative Title:
Paneth codex
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic textualis., Decoration: heavily decorated throughout. Texts generally start with historiated initial showing authorial portrait (ff. 1, 8, 12, 15, 29, 46, 54, 57, 61, 71, 77, 86, 88, 91, 108, 137, 219, 240, 252, 301, 320, 343, 462, 407, 439, 472, 489, 507, 510, 560, 571, 579, 582, 586, 602, 660, 665). Other miniatures of numerous medical instruments and other scenarios can be found throughout the manuscript as historiated initials, paragraph markers, or in the margins (e.g. f. 52: pig slaughtered for dissection(?); f. 81: of Aquarius). Varying fantastical animals and creatures in the margins. Also includes a number of rectangular tables containing dietary information. Headings rubricated, subheadings in alternating blue and red letters. Two- to three-line initials in alternating blue and red ink with penwork in contrasting colors. Rubrication., Layout: double column of 43 lines., Binding: modern light brown leather binding over wooden boards with four clasps., Perhaps commissioned in Bologna for the University of Prague. Ornamental documentation may have been started in Bologna, but finished by a Bohemian artist later., Incipits identified by Peter Murray Jones, 2003., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Phlebotomy, Recipes, Surgery, Medieval, Urine, and Veterinary medicine
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Published / Created:
between 1300? and 1399?
Call Number:
Manuscript 2 Vault
Image Count:
348
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Illuminated manuscript, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of Latin translations of Arabic medical texts. Includes texts by Abu Bakr Rhazes: Liber ad Almansorem (ff. 1r-97v); Liber divisionis (ff. 99r-131r); Antidotarium (ff. 131r-141r); Liber introductorius parvus in medicinam (ff. 143v-144v); Liber juncturarum (ff. 145r-151v); Liber puerorum (ff. 151v-154r). The first two texts are translated into Latin by Gerardus Cremonensis. Also contains text by Alguazir Abuale Zor: De curatione lapidis (ff. 141v-142v); and by Galen: Liber VI de medicinis experimentatis (ff. 154v-163r). Galen's text was translated from Greek to Arabic by a certain Joannicius and from Arabic into Latin by Farachius (Faraj ben Salim). Includes a table (ff. 163r-166r). Concludes with the Liber de lapide, ascribed to Abu Bakr Rhazes (ff. 166v-167r).
Alternative Title:
Liber Almansoris ... etc
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: historiated initials depicting half-length figures with pointed caps or white turbans, perhaps showing Rhazes? (ff. 1-144) Includes red and blue lettering, multi colored initials, and several small portraits., Layout: 2 columns of 50 lines., and Binding: modern (1992) half calf over oak binding. Previous binding descibed in binder's description accompanying item: 18th-century brown tooled calf.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of the anonymous Historia septem sapientum (ff. 1r-15v) and Arnaldus de Villanova's Regimen sanitatis ad regem Aragonum (ff. 15v-19r, highly abbreviated). Also includes Lentulus' Epistola de statura Christi ad Senatum Romanum (f. 19v) and a collection of moral sentences (f. 20r) in a different, slightly later hand
Alternative Title:
Historia septem sapientum : Regimen sanitatis abbreviatum
Description:
In Latin., Title of Regimen Sanitatis from opening rubric: Incipit liber de regimen sanitatis editus per Magistrum Raynaldum de Villa nova. (f. 15v) Other titles assigned by cataloger., Script: southern Gothic texualis., Decoration: 3-line initials in blue and 2-line initials in red. Rubrication., Layout: written in 2 columns of 29 lines., Binding: modern binding over pasteboard signed by binder: Bound by J. Desmonts / J. Macdonald Co. / Norwalk. Conn., Contemporary foliation: 96-115 (indicating sequence in original manuscript?); and modern foliation 1-20., and Available also on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing Gilbertus Anglicus' complete Compendium medicinae. Includes later table of content on back pastedown
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: gothic textualis., Decoration: one- and two-line initials in red and blue ink. Rubrication throughout., Layout: 1 column of around 38 lines., Binding: 15th-century light-brown leather binding, with metal furniture and clasps (closing on the front cover). Unidentified coat of arms blind-tooled on front cover. Manuscript note on front cover., In folding case: 35 cm., and Catchwords on the bottom left within a decorative frame.
Illuminated manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, including a collection of forty-six texs concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery and Includes: Ysagoge Joanicii ad tegni Galeni (ff. 1-14), Liber aphorismorum Ypocratis (ff. 14-30), Pronosticorum Ypocratis liber (ff. 30-40), Liber urinarum Theophili (ff. 40-53), Philareti de negotio pulsuum (ff. 53-57), Tegni Galieni (ff. 57-91), Anatomia Ricardi (ff. 91-104), Anatomia Mauri (ff. 104-107), Anonymous tract on bloodletting (ff. 107-108), Versus urinarum Egidii (ff. 109-113), Egidius de pulsibus (ff. 113-118), Galen's De medicinis experimentatis (ff. 121-140), Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum (ff. 141-152), Aphorismi Joannis Damasceni (ff. 153-159), Hippocrates' de aqua et aere (ff. 161-172), Hippocrates' de veritate (ff. 172-175), Hippocrates' de secreta (ff. 175-177), Isaac Judaeus' De diaetis (ff. 181-268), Liber de ponderibus (ff. 268-270), Geraldus' De signis digestionum (ff. 270-329), Liber divisionum Arazi (ff. 331-469), Synonyma (ff. 470-477), Cirurgia (ff. 479-636), Rasis' de doloribus iuncturarum (ff. 639-664), Rasis' de curis puerorum (ff. 664-671), Collection of medical recipes (ff. 671-675), De virtute visibili (ff. 675-683), Tacuinum sanitatis (ff. 685-768), De mineralibus (ff. 769-772), Epistola Ameti filii Abrahe de proprietatibus (ff. 773-780), Liber vaccae (ff. 781-811), Cirurgia Bruni (ff. 813-924), Cirurgia Bruni brevis (ff. 924-941), Cirurgia Rolandi (ff. 943-1018), Roger de Barone Major et minor de medicamentia (ff. 1019-1168), Macer de virtutibus herbarum (ff. 1171-1197), De vertutibus gemmarum (ff. 1197-1201), Liber herbolarii (ff. 1203-1317), Isagoge Dauci (ff. 1319-1325), Guillelmi falconerii (ff. 1325-1329), De cura equorum (ff. 1330-1375), Regulae equorum (ff. 1375-1377), Recipes in 14th- and 15th-century hands (ff. 1378).
Alternative Title:
Paneth codex
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic textualis., Decoration: heavily decorated throughout. Texts generally start with historiated initial showing authorial portrait (ff. 1, 8, 12, 15, 29, 46, 54, 57, 61, 71, 77, 86, 88, 91, 108, 137, 219, 240, 252, 301, 320, 343, 462, 407, 439, 472, 489, 507, 510, 560, 571, 579, 582, 586, 602, 660, 665). Other miniatures of numerous medical instruments and other scenarios can be found throughout the manuscript as historiated initials, paragraph markers, or in the margins (e.g. f. 52: pig slaughtered for dissection(?); f. 81: of Aquarius). Varying fantastical animals and creatures in the margins. Also includes a number of rectangular tables containing dietary information. Headings rubricated, subheadings in alternating blue and red letters. Two- to three-line initials in alternating blue and red ink with penwork in contrasting colors. Rubrication., Layout: double column of 43 lines., Binding: modern light brown leather binding over wooden boards with four clasps., Perhaps commissioned in Bologna for the University of Prague. Ornamental documentation may have been started in Bologna, but finished by a Bohemian artist later., Incipits identified by Peter Murray Jones, 2003., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Phlebotomy, Recipes, Surgery, Medieval, Urine, and Veterinary medicine
Illuminated manuscript herbal, on parchment, in several unidentified hand, containing a herbal in Italian (ff. 1r-49v), incipit: L'erba dicta astrologia o vere aristolatia... Followed by a collection of medical recipes in Italian (ff. 50r-152v), incipit: ungue[n]to da fare. Includes 16 botanical drawings in colored ink
Alternative Title:
Herbal : in Italian ; followed by Medical recipes (on leaves 51-152)
Description:
In Italian., Title devised by cataloger., Script: documentary hands., Layout: single column of varying length., Decoration: 16 botanical drawings: herba alebro biancho (f. 28r), herba pinpinella maiore (f. 28v), herba ceredonia (f. 29r), herba berthonica (f. 29v), herba coriola (f. 30r), herba lunaria minore (f. 30v), herba astologia rotonda (f. 31r), herba oculorum Christi (f. 31v), herba greiima (f. 32r), herba poliponice (f. 32v), herba trefolgi (f. 33r), herba rebarrum (f. 33v), herba siillo di santa maria (f. 34r), herba mandragola femena (f. 34v), herba madragola mascolo (f. 35r), herba dicta tirmitella (f. 35v), unidentified herb (f. 39v). Herbal rubricated., Binding: bound in modern vellum over paper boards., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Also available on microfilm.
Manuscript, in parchment, in unidentified hand, containing Rolandus of Parma's Cirogia vulgare (ff. 1-65). Followed by an anonymous list of medical recipes and antidotes. Imperfect: many sections of the list of antidotes censored with black ink. Folio 104 almost completely torn away; its verso and extra vellum leaf at end have manuscript notes on astrology, in a later hand
Alternative Title:
Chirurgia vulgare : followed by a ricettario, and antidotarium vulgare
Description:
In Italian., First title from title heading, other titles assigned by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: headings in red ink and rubrication throughout., Layout: double column of 24 lines., Binding: vellum binding with spinal title: Cirogia vulgare / MS. XIV. Saec., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Antidotes, Surgery, Medieval, Materia medica, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, Traditional medicine, and Recipes
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of a collection of works by Galen. Includes: Liber therapeuticus (ff. 1r-35v), De utilitate anhelitus (ff. 35v-37v), De pharmaciis (ff. 37v-38v), De malicia complexionis (ff. 39r-40v), De accidente et morbo (ff. 39r-40v), De lapide (ff. 59r-60r), De phlebotomia (ff. 60r-v), De pharmaciis Hippocratis (f. 60v), De virtutibus naturalibus (ff. 61r-74v), De complexionibus (ff. 75r-88v), De regimine sanitatis (incomplete, ff. 88v-97v).
Alternative Title:
Liber therapeutices, De utilitate anhelitus, De pharmaciis, De malicia complexionis, De accidente et morbo, De lapide, De phlebotomia, De pharmaciis Hippocratis, De virtutibus naturalibus, De complexionibus, De regimine sanitatis
Description:
In Latin., Script: southern Gothic texualis., Decoration: one 6-line initial in green, red, and purple acanthus on a blue backgroud with gold, leaves extending in the same colors to the upper margin. Several 5- and 4-line initials. Two-line initials with simple flourishing throughout, alternating in blue and red. Red and blue paragraph marks. Rubrication., Layout: written in 2 columns of 57 lines., Binding: contemporary leather binding over original wooden boards. Rebacked in July 1930 by A. Maltby & Son, Oxford. Traces of marks from clasps and of small metal bosses on front and edges of boards (few remaining). Label on back cover of book: Libri Galienni incipientes a terapeutica., and Catchwords centered in lower margins, enclosed in plain black ink frames.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, in two unidentified hands, on parchment, including a Latin Chronicle (imperfect beginning, ends with Henry VI; ff. 1-5), and a collection of medical recipes and remedies in Middle English (ff. 16-65). The manuscript ends with a number of miscellaneous 16th century notes and inscriptions (ff. 63-80).
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Title from manuscript note on front pastedown., Script: gothica cursiva., Decoration: 4-line red and blue initials. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of about 25 lines., Binding: original sheep leather binding, with vestiges of two strap-and-pin clasps, fastening from the upper to the lower boards., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Recipes
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
Alternative Title:
[Medical manuscript : in Latin ; containing several, mostly anonymous, tracts].
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., and Early modern foliation: 1-8.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Illuminated manuscript herbal, on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of medical texts, tables, and taxonomies about plants, animals, and herbs by Hippocrates, Dycolapius Plato, Apuleius, Sextus Placitus, Dioscorides, and Apollinis. Includes copious hand-colored drawings of plants and animals, and a number of full-page author portraits
Alternative Title:
In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicine scilicet Ypocratis, Platonis, et Diascoridis, In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicie s. Ypoctis, Platonis, et Diascoridis, and De herbis masculinis et feminis [and other botanical and zoological works, including the Herbarium of Apuleius]
Description:
In Latin., Title from rubricated heading on f. 3r., Script: southern gothic textualis., Layout: 1 column of around 38 lines., Decoration: copious illustriations of plants and animals. Full-page portraits of the authors on ff. 3v, 50v, and 63r. Rubrication., Binding: 18th/19th-century vellum binding over pastedboard. Spine title: Plantan et animal., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical, Herbals, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Zoology, Medieval
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing an Italian translation of Antonio Guainerio's De venenis
Description:
In Italian., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist hand., Decoration: one six-line decorated initial in gold on rectangle border with floral decoration (f. 1r). Two-line initials in red and blue ink throughout. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 24 lines., Binding: 17th-18th c. deer skin over paper boards., and Watermark is a variant of Briquet 6597-6600, Northern Italy, 1465-80.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Venom
Manuscript, on paper, containing a collection of medical treatises and recipes. Includes: medical recipes and charms (ff. 1-57), gynaecological treatise (ff. 60-71), catalogue of plants and their medical properties (ff. 73-99), and an astrological treatise (ff. 103-114).
Alternative Title:
Medical recipes and charms : followed by a gynaecological treatise, catalog of plants and their medical properties, and an astrological essay ; in English, with the astrology text (leaves 103-114) including Latin headings
Description:
In English with Latin headings., Title devised by cataloger., Script: secretary hand., Layout: single column of around 30 lines., Binding: bound in contemporary vellum. Severely damaged., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Gynecology, Manuscripts, Medical, Medicine, Practice, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
