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1. Anatomie pour congnoistre les parties interieures
- Published / Created:
- between 1500 and 1599.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 44 vault
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript sheet, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an anatomical drawing of a seated woman. Text includes descriptions of the different parts of the body
- Alternative Title:
- Anatomie pour congnoistre les parties interieures : [a large anatomical drawing in color, surrounded by explanatory text]
- Description:
- In Middle French., Title from heading., Script: humanist hand., Layout: anatomical drawing in center, double columns of 80 lines surrounding and underneath drawing., No text on verso. Used as binding waste., Included in a portfolio (66 x 51 cm.) with eight 58 x 38 cm. color photoreproductions., and Dr. Peter Jones, May, 2003, states that this single sheet most likely is a manuscript copy of the Jean Ruelle fugitive sheet (female figure only) Paris, 1540. cf. Carlino, A. Paper bodies ... London, 1999, page 171.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anatomy, Human anatomy, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Anatomie pour congnoistre les parties interieures
2. Bartholomaei Eustachii Tabulae quaedam anatomicae cum explicatione autographa, quae diu apud haeredes Matthaei Pini Vrbinatis delituerunt; tandemque anno MDCCXV inuentae sunt
- Creator:
- Eustachi, Bartolomeo, -1574
- Published / Created:
- between 1550 and 1600.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 9 Vault
- Image Count:
- 354
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of pseudo(?)-Eustachi' Tabulae Anatomicae. Includes 307 pen and ink anatomical drawings, many hand colored, with commentary. Consisting of three parts written by the same hand and bound together: part 1 (107 leaves) on bones, muscles, veins, arteries and nerves (water mark anchor in circle with star); part 2 (13 leaves) on veins (thinner paper without water marks showing); part 3 (40 leaves) on muscles (thinner paper without water marks showing).
- Alternative Title:
- Bartholomaei Eustachii Tabulae quaedam anatomicae cum explicatione autographa, quae diu apud haeredes Matthaei Pini Urbinatis delituerunt; tandemque anno MDCCXV inventae sunt and Tabulae quaedam anatomicae : cum explicatione autographa
- Description:
- In Latin., Title from title page, added in 18th-century hand., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of 30 lines., Binding: 19th-century red leather half-binding over cardboard. Gold-tooling and spine title on spine: Eustachii / Tabulae anatomicae / M.S., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Available also on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Human anatomy, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Bartholomaei Eustachii Tabulae quaedam anatomicae cum explicatione autographa, quae diu apud haeredes Matthaei Pini Vrbinatis delituerunt; tandemque anno MDCCXV inuentae sunt
3. Cirogia vulgare. Ricettario. Antidotarium vulgare
- Creator:
- Rolandus, Parmensis, active 1264
- Published / Created:
- between 1300 and 1350.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 52 Vault
- Image Count:
- 218
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Cirogia vulgare. Ricettario. Antidotarium vulgare
4. Cirurgia magistri Rogerii. Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg".
- Creator:
- Ruggero, Frugardo, active 12th century
- Published / Created:
- between 1150 and 1199.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 10 Vault
- Image Count:
- 86
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Cirurgia magistri Rogerii. Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg".
5. Clarissima expositio aphorismi diuini Hippocratis cum Galenici commentariis Curtii Papiensis in Patauino gimnatio piblice directis
- Creator:
- Corti, Matteo, 1475-1542
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1530?
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 8 Vault
- Image Count:
- 408
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in unidentified hand, containing a series of lectures on Hippocrates and Galen, numbered 1-103, delivered by Matteo Corti at Padua
- Alternative Title:
- Expositio in Aphorismos Hippocratis
- Description:
- In Latin., Title from heading., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of 42 lines., and Binding: manuscript fragment on parchment reused for binding, containing a notarial registry of Amandola.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Aphorisms, Medicine, Medieval, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Clarissima expositio aphorismi diuini Hippocratis cum Galenici commentariis Curtii Papiensis in Patauino gimnatio piblice directis
6. Collection of calendars, horoscopes, and medical and astrological texts
- Published / Created:
- between 1551 and 1553.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 26 vault
- Image Count:
- 130
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, including a collection of texts on medical and astrological topics, calendars and horoscopes
- Alternative Title:
- Medical and astrological texts : in English
- Description:
- In English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothic cursiva., Decoration: 4 anatomical figures, 12 colored drawings of occupations of the months, 7 colored drawings of signs of the planets, 4 of the temperaments, 12 of the signs of the zodiac, 12 of their astrological abbreviations, and 12 large paintings of the signs of the zodiac. Also included: base of an astrolabe cut from a musical ms., ca. 1500 (f. 36r). Copious rubrication throughout., Layout: 1 column of around 40 lines., Binding: modern white leather binding over pasteboards., and Date of creation must be after 1552 and before 1554; the table on f. 6r runs from 1553 to 1590 and the chronicle notes on f.25r run to the beheading of the Duke of Somerset in 1552.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of calendars, horoscopes, and medical and astrological texts
7. Collection of mathematical and astronomical treatises
- Published / Created:
- between 1291and 1454.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 11 Vault
- Image Count:
- 358
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of mathematical and astronomical treatises
8. Collection of medical and dietetic recipes
- Published / Created:
- 1573.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 42 vault
- Image Count:
- 332
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- A manuscript, in a multitude of unidentified hands, on paper, containing a collection of medical and dietetic recipes. Also contains a section of unidentified elegiac poetry, including a few couplets attributed to Hesiod. Introduction, conclusion, and many other sections of the text wanting
- Alternative Title:
- Raccolta di ricette medicinali e dietetiche : [medical and dietetic recipes], in Italian and Latin ; finished 20 December 1573, with later additions
- Description:
- In Italian and Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: multiple humanist hands., Layout: single column of between 25 and 30 lines., Binding: bound in limp vellum with forage flap and leather strap. Unidentified manuscript writing on front cover., Colophon (f. 161v): 1573 di 20 di Decembrio sono fatti 30 salami fini 9: supheletti et li altri in Budello Delli Grassi n. 22. Indu[]elli no. In nome del servitor mio qual e in Galera e Baldassaro di Pepi Lisandrini perosino, e in Livorno nella Galera patrona dil gran Ducha di Fiorenza., and Manuscript's contemporary pagination indicates that many leaves are wanting: 26-38, 165-248, 297-358, 363-408, 419-426, 431-560.
- Subject (Topic):
- Diet, Materia medica, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of medical and dietetic recipes
9. Collection of medical receipts
- Published / Created:
- between 1400 and 1499.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 58 vault
- Image Count:
- 112
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in two different unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical ingredients and recipes. Contains, in the first humanist hand, collection of medical recipes (ff. 1-21r) and a text of medical recipes against the plague by Mastro Tomasso da Garbo (ff. 21v-23v). In the second gothic hand, contains a a list of ingredients and their medical uses in Latin and Italian (ff. 24r-33r in Latin, ff. 24r-25r, 33r-51v in Italian).
- Description:
- In Italian and Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule and gothic textualis., Decoration: rubricated headings and rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 28 lines., Binding: contemporary vellum binding., Incipit text 1: Tolle una melagrana et mondala tucta et poi la pesta et trane el sugho... Heading text 2: El consiglio di Mastro Tomasso da Garbo contro la pestilentia. Incipit text 3: Verdolaghe. La verdolaga e de amorosa natura et de freda perche siando pistata et metuta sopra lo ventre tira la febre..., and Modern foliation in pencil.
- Subject (Topic):
- Recipes, Manuscripts, Materia medica, and Medicine
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of medical receipts
10. Collection of medical receipts
- Published / Created:
- between 1400 and 1499.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 60 vault
- Image Count:
- 190
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of medical recipes in German (ff. 1-11 and 18-67), materia medica in German and Latin (ff. 11-18), and more recipes added between the late 15th century and the 18th century (ff. 67-88). Includes a 15th-century prayer against the falling sickness on the back flyleaf
- Alternative Title:
- Receipt book; German text on materia medica : written on vellum and paper in two different hands, with original wooden boards
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic minuscule., Layout: single column of varying length., Decoration: medical receipts (ff. 1-67) rubricated., and Binding: bound in wooden boards; no backing. Traces of clasps. "Sermones" visible on the wood.
- Subject (Topic):
- Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Recipes
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of medical receipts
11. Collection of medical recipes and medical treatises
- Published / Created:
- between 1400 and 1499.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 47 vault
- Image Count:
- 256
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of medical recipes and medical treatises
12. Collection of medical treatises for practising physicians
- Published / Created:
- between 1350 and 1399.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 43 vault
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- text
- 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
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of medical treatises for practising physicians
13. Collection of medical treatises of Hieronymus Münzer
- Published / Created:
- 1477.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 13 Vault
- Image Count:
- 348
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manscript, on paper, containing a collection of medical treatises. Containing "Ad Plagas" by Ambrosius de Benasco (ff. 2r-5r), Hippocrates' "Aphorismi," with commentaries by Galen and Haly Abbas (ff. 7r-69r), "Preservatio a Peste" by Antonio Guainerio (ff. 80v-87r), excerpts from Galen's Tegni (ff. 92v-142r), Mondino dei Luzzi's "Anathomia" (ff. 143v-164r). All but Ambrosius de Benasco's "Ad Plagas" written in Hieronymus Münzer's own hand
- Alternative Title:
- Medical collectanea / Hieronymus Münzer : written in Latin, on paper, with many marginal notes; signed and dated 1477, Pavia
- Description:
- In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of around 40 lines., Binding: original 15th-centur red leather binding on paper boards. Title on cover in ink: Aphorismi / Hippocrati. Spine label with "11" in ink., Owership note by Hieronymus Münzer on inside front cover: Hic libellus mei Hieronimi Monetarii de Felkirchen artium medicineque doctoris quem manu propria nocturnis vigiliis maximisque laboribus ex commento Galieni et Hali et aliorum excerpsi et in hunc paruum libellum relegi, in Papia urbe Ytalie, dum medicinali facultati studerem, anno domini 1477., Note by Hieronymus Münzer on f. 164r: Hieronymus finished copying on "18 die februarii anno 1477 - papia hora 21.", and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Aphorisms, Medicine, Medieval, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of medical treatises of Hieronymus Münzer
14. Collection of six medical treatises
- Published / Created:
- 20 October 1458.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 57 vault
- Image Count:
- 288
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing six medical treatises. Includes: Bartolomeo da Montagnana's De urinibus (ff. 1r-10r); prescriptions by an unknown author (ff. 11a-29v); Bartolomeo da Montagnana's De compositione et dosandi (ff. 30r-40v); Petri de Tussignano's Recepte (ff. 41r-68v); Antonio Guainiero's Gynaecologia (69a-102a); and Antonio Guainiero's De febribus (102v-138a). Some leaves torn without loss of text
- Alternative Title:
- Medical manuscript containing six treatises; copied by the same scribe in black ink, with some text in red and Book of prescriptions
- Description:
- In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothica cursiva., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: double column of 43 lines., Binding: bound in modern printed paper with parchment flyleaves., and Colophon (second column of f. 102r): Die 20 octobris 1458 per me Faustinum.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Materia medica, Fever, Gynecology, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of six medical treatises
15. Collection of works by Aristotle
- Creator:
- Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- 1250-1299.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 12 Vault
- Image Count:
- 692
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of works by Aristotle
16. Collection of works by Galen
- Creator:
- Galen
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1299]
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 5 Vault
- Image Count:
- 524
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of works by Galen
17. Collection of works by Galen
- Creator:
- Galen
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1350?
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 6 Vault
- Image Count:
- 204
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of works by Galen
18. Collection of works by Rufus of Ephesus
- Creator:
- Rufus, of Ephesus
- Published / Created:
- between 1500 and 1550.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 32 vault
- Image Count:
- 144
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a collection of works by Rufus of Ephesus: Περὶ πάντων φανερῶν τε καὶ ἀφανερῶν μορίων τοῦ ἀνθρώπου (De corporis humani partium appellationibus; ff. 3-7), Περὶ ὀνομασιῶν (De partibus corporis hominis; ff. 7-16), Περὶ ὀστῶν (De ossibus; ff. 17-18). Also includes extracts from Julius Pollux's Onomasticon Liber II (ff. 20-47). Contains a table of contents (f. 2).
- Alternative Title:
- Opera : in Greek
- Description:
- In Greek., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Decoration: titles and one-line initials in red., Layout: single column of 17 lines., Binding: blind-tooled green sheepskin over paper boards., and Leaf 19 is blank.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of works by Rufus of Ephesus
19. Commentum super afforismos Ypocratis ; Commenta super pronostica Ypocratis ; Liber Ypocratis de regimine acutorum
- Published / Created:
- between 1250 and 1299.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 20 Vault
- Image Count:
- 288
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Commentum super afforismos Ypocratis ; Commenta super pronostica Ypocratis ; Liber Ypocratis de regimine acutorum
20. Commonplace book
- Published / Created:
- 1551.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 45 vault
- Image Count:
- 310
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a collection of texts on astronomy and medicine: contains a treatise on uroscopy (ff. 1-48r), an index of the significations of the colors of urine (ff. 48v-50v), a table of astrological symbols and their explanations (f. 51r), an astrological figure "The circle of 16 angles" (ff. 51v-52r), a table of the days of the moon (f. 52v), a series of astronomical tables from Aries to Pisces (ff. 53v-57r), a medical treatise describing illnesses and medical recipes (ff. 58r-85v), an stronomical treatise (ff. 87r-119v), a text on the twelve astrological signs (ff. 122v-123r), a number of tables and figures on the planets, the aspects of the moon, and uroscopy (ff. 123v-126r), a series of astrological prognostic texts related to theft (ff. 129v-132v), a weather prognostication (ff. 133r-134r), a series of electionary texts (ff. 134v-137v), a treatise on bloodletting (f. 137v), a series of questionary texts (ff. 138r-146r), a collection of brief astrological proverbs (147r-147v), a series of explanations about astrology (148r-148v), and a questionary text on finding a thief (f. 149r).
- Alternative Title:
- Commonplace book in English: on miscellaneous subjects, chiefly astrology
- Description:
- In English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: English secretary hand., Layout: single column of between 36 and 45 lines., Binding: 18th- or 19th-century binding in marbled boards with brown leather spine. Spinal note "M.S 1551" in gold-tooling., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Date of creation from f. 122: "Wryten anno domini 1551.", and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Commonplace book
21. Compendium medicinae
- Creator:
- Gilbertus, Anglicus
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1300?
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 19 Vault
- Image Count:
- 360
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Compendium medicinae
22. Damaskiou filosofou exē̄gē̄sis eis to prognō̄stikon tou Hippokratous and Δαμασκίου φιλοσόφου ἐξηγήσις εἰς τὸ προγνωστικὸν τοῦ Ἱπποκράτους
- Creator:
- Stephanus, of Alexandria
- Published / Created:
- between 1500 and 1599.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 50 vault
- Image Count:
- 218
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, containing Stephanus of Alexandria's Commentary on Hippocrates' Prognostica in Greek. Written in the hand of Andreas Darmarios
- Alternative Title:
- Commentary on Hippocrates' Prognostica : in Greek / ascribed to Stephen of Alexandria and Prognostica
- Description:
- In Greek., Title from title heading., Script: 16th-century hand., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of around 17 lines., Binding: blind-stamped light brown sheep over pasteboard., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Name):
- Hippocrates.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Greek and Roman, Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Damaskiou filosofou exē̄gē̄sis eis to prognō̄stikon tou Hippokratous, Δαμασκίου φιλοσόφου ἐξηγήσις εἰς τὸ προγνωστικὸν τοῦ Ἱπποκράτους
23. De cibis sanorum egrorum. Antidotarium
- Creator:
- Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, -1013?
- Published / Created:
- between 1400 and 1500.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 48 vault
- Image Count:
- 86
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a Latin translation of Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī's De cibis sanorum egrorum (ff. 1r-18v) and Bartholomaeus de Montagna's Antidotarium (ff. 19r-41v).
- Alternative Title:
- Taṣrīf li-man ʻajiza ʻan al-taʼlīf. Latin and De cibis sanorum egrorum : followed (on leaves 19-41) by Bartholomaeus de Montagna: Antidotarium
- Description:
- In Latin., Titles from headings on f. 1r and 19r., Script: minuscule., Layout: single column of 48 lines., Decoration: headings in red ink. Rubrication., Binding: modern printed paper binding., and The Albucasis part consists of the entire 26th chapter of his Kitab al-tasrif.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medical, Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Diet
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > De cibis sanorum egrorum. Antidotarium
24. De mundo
- Creator:
- Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- 1494.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 14 vault
- Image Count:
- 56
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of Hieronymus Münzer, containing pseudo-Aristotle's De mundo, sometimes attributed to Nicolaus of Damascus. (A text translated from Arabic by Apuleius.) Includes copious marginal notes by Hieronymus Münzer
- Alternative Title:
- De mundo / pseudo-Aristotle [probably by Nicolaus Damascenus] ; translated into Latin by Apuleius Madaurensis ; written in ink on paper by Hieronymus Münzer at Nuremberg in 1494
- Description:
- In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of around 30 lines., Binding: modern cloth binding over pasteboard., Signed and dated by Münzer on leaf 17r: Hic nobilissimus libellus aristotilis de mundo scriptus est manibus Magistri Hieronimi Monetarii de feltkirchen medicina doctoris etc., uicesima quarta Februarii anno salutis 1494 Nuremberge. Satis correctus est magnoque labore ex incorrecto uolumine in lucem prodiit., and Article, written by Walter Kurt Fränkel with caption title: "Dr. Hieronymus Münzer, 1440-1508 Stadtarztt vun Nürmberg, Humanist, Geograph uns Schwiegervater Holzschuhers", in envelope shelved with the manuscript.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Philosophy
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > De mundo
25. De venenis
- Creator:
- Guainerio, Antonio, -1440
- Published / Created:
- between 1400 and 1499.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 41 Vault
- Image Count:
- 120
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > De venenis
26. Extractions from Dioscorides' De materia medica
- Creator:
- Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos
- Published / Created:
- between 1539 and 1542.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 31 vault
- Image Count:
- 230
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing an extract of Dioscorides' De materia medica, a medico-botanical dictionary arranged alphabetically
- Alternative Title:
- Medico-botanical dictionary / extracted from Dioscorides ; manuscript written in Greek during the 15th Century
- Description:
- In Greek., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Layout: single column of 30 lines., Binding: vellum, over paper boards. Spinal title: Dioscorides De plantis Graece Manuscrip., and Volume was likely produced in Venice between 1539 and 1542 or Guillaume Pellicier, bishop of Montpellier and ambassador to Venice.
- Subject (Topic):
- Botany, Medical, Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Extractions from Dioscorides' De materia medica
27. Historia septem sapientum ; Regimen sanitatis editus per magistrum Raynaldum de Villa nova ; Epistula de statura Christi ad senatum romanum
- Creator:
- Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1399].
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 7 Vault
- Image Count:
- 48
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Historia septem sapientum ; Regimen sanitatis editus per magistrum Raynaldum de Villa nova ; Epistula de statura Christi ad senatum romanum
28. In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medici[n]e s[cilicet] Ypoc[ra]tis, Platonis, et Diascoridis
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1400?
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 18 vault
- Image Count:
- 182
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medici[n]e s[cilicet] Ypoc[ra]tis, Platonis, et Diascoridis
29. Italian herbal
- Published / Created:
- between 1300 and 1499.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 49 vault
- Image Count:
- 240
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Botany, Medical, Herbals, Materia medica, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Zoology, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Italian herbal
30. Letters... [etc.]
- Creator:
- Hippocrates
- Published / Created:
- between 1460 and 1499.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 21 Vault
- Image Count:
- 164
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of letters, attributed to Hippocrates (ff. 1r-50v). Also includes a series of epitaphs (ff. 51r-53v); incipit: Caesari sacrum Ennius Montanus fecit auxit. Concludes with a collection of pseudo-classical letters of unknown Renaissance authorship (ff. 54r-72v): correspondence between Marius Appius and Latianus (2 letters, 54r-55r), letters by and to Curtius Rufus (22 letters, ff. 56r-73v), and a letter by Genutius to the Roman senate (1 letter, ff. 73r-74r). Leaves 50, 73-77 are blank
- Alternative Title:
- [Epistolae : translated into Latin by Alamanno Rinuccini].
- Description:
- In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: historiated gold initial showing king seated on a throne (Ataxerxes?), with sword and orb in hand, and full border decoration including animals, puti, and human figures (f. 1r); five-line gold initial on blue frame (f. 25r); 2-line gold initials on purple and blue frames; gold capital letters. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 15 lines., Binding: old burgundy velvet over parchment., and Foliation added in modern pencil.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Letters... [etc.]
31. Liber ad Almansorem ... etc
- Creator:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Liber ad Almansorem ... etc
32. Liber canonis quem princeps Abicali ab inuicem de medicina edidit : a magistro Gerardo Cremonensi translatus in Tolleto
- Creator:
- Avicenna, 980-1037
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250? and 1350?]
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 4 Vault
- Image Count:
- 718
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Liber canonis quem princeps Abicali ab inuicem de medicina edidit : a magistro Gerardo Cremonensi translatus in Tolleto
33. Liber tractatus Averoys ... [etc.]
- Creator:
- Averroës, 1126-1198
- Published / Created:
- 1450-1499.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 15 vault
- Image Count:
- 144
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in unidentified hand, of an Italian translation of Averroës' Latin Tractatus or Epitome in physicorum libros (ff. 1r-53v)--a text originally written in Arabic. Also includes a treatise on human diseases in 46 chapters (ff. 54r-65r), entitled: In questo libro trataremo de tutte linfermita che posseno avenire nel corpo delomo dentro ede fuora dal capo ai piedii. Concludes with a list of remedies (ff. 65r-68r), written in a different hand; incipit: Per male de pieda cossa provata
- Alternative Title:
- Trattato di fisica
- Description:
- In Italian., Title from closing rubric., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: 2-line red initials. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of 30 to 40 lines., and Binding: modern brown leather half-binding over brown and green marbled paper (over pasteboard). Spine title in gold-tooling: Trattato di medicina in volgare.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Liber tractatus Averoys ... [etc.]
34. Logos prōtos peri geneseōs trichōn kai alōpekias and Λόγος πρῶτος περὶ γενέσεως τριχῶν καὶ ἀλωπεκίας
- Creator:
- Ibn al-Jazzār.
- Published / Created:
- between 1542 and 1599.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 36 vault
- Image Count:
- 306
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in five unidentified hands, on paper, containing books I, II (incomplete), V (incomplete), VI (incomplete), and VII of Ibn al-Jazzār's Viaticum peregrinantium, a translation from Arabic into Greek supposedly done by Constantinus Rheginos. Ends with an incomplete table of contents
- Alternative Title:
- [Viaticum peregrinantium / written in Greek, with incomplete translation attributed to Constantinos Rheginos].
- Description:
- In Ancient Greek., Title from heading., Script: five different Italian 16th-century hands., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 35-36 lines., Binding: bound in 19th-century brown polished calf. Spinal labels: Liber de morbis curandis / Codex MS. Chartaceus, saeculi XV., Of the 148 leaves in the manuscript, 72 are blank (interleaved)., Watermarks identified as Chapeau 51 (Hilfinger vol.1) from Venice in 1542; suggests that the manuscript was copied in Venice later than 1542., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Logos prōtos peri geneseōs trichōn kai alōpekias, Λόγος πρῶτος περὶ γενέσεως τριχῶν καὶ ἀλωπεκίας
35. Magnou sofistou exētēsis eis to periourōn kai allōn polōn palaiōn sofōn te kai didaskalōn syntetheisa para tou filosofotatou, stefanou tou alexandreōs. and Μάγνου σοφιστοῦ ἐξήτησις εἰς τὸ περιούρων καὶ ἄλλων πολῶν παλαιῶν τε καὶ διδασκάλων συντεθεῖσα παρὰ τοῦ φιλοσοφοτάτου, στεφάνου ἀλεξανδρέωσ
- Creator:
- Stephanus, of Athens
- Published / Created:
- between 1539 and 1542.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 34 vault
- Image Count:
- 104
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing Stephanus of Athens' On urines or Expositio in librum magni Sophistae de urinis (ff. 1-27) and Olymnios of Alexandria's Critical days or De diebus criticis liber (ff. 29-41).
- Alternative Title:
- On urines / Stephanus of Athens ; and Critical days / Olymnios of Alexandria : manuscripts written in Greek around 1540
- Description:
- In Ancient Greek., Title from heading., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 21 lines., Binding: vellum, over paper boards. Spinal title: Stephani et Olymnii Varia medica, Graece manuscript., Volume was likely produced in Venice between 1539 and 1542 or Guillaume Pellicier, bishop of Montpellier and ambassador to Venice., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Urine
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Magnou sofistou exētēsis eis to periourōn kai allōn polōn palaiōn sofōn te kai didaskalōn syntetheisa para tou filosofotatou, stefanou tou alexandreōs., Μάγνου σοφιστοῦ ἐξήτησις εἰς τὸ περιούρων καὶ ἄλλων πολῶν παλαιῶν τε καὶ διδασκάλων συντεθεῖσα παρὰ τοῦ φιλοσοφοτάτου, στεφάνου ἀλεξανδρέωσ
36. Medical notebook on medicine and surgery
- Creator:
- Vecchi, Otto, fl. 1600
- Published / Created:
- between 1596 and 1604.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 46 vault
- Image Count:
- 214
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript, on paper, containing a collection of texts on medicine and surgery. Includes: an index (front flyleaf recto), an unidentified medical text: A malis curis et a falsis (front flleaf verso), "Mens hominis discedendo alitur" (f. 1), a text on surgery: dicatur primo quid est chirurgia (ff. 2r-3v), Descriptions in Latin and Itailan of illnesses and presriptions for their cure (ff. 4r-71v), treatise on the science of medicine (ff. 72r-80r), index, prescriptions, and other notes (ff. 81-105).
- Alternative Title:
- Medical notebook ; in his autograph (Italian and Latin)
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian., Title devised by cataloger., Script: italic cursive., Layout: single column of around 20 lines., Binding: bound in a fourteenth-century vellum sheet of music (missal or antiphonary)., Author signs on f. 70 and ff. 72-80., and Dated on f. 37: September 1596, and f. 83: January 15th, 1604.
- Subject (Topic):
- Surgery, Manuscripts, Medical, Medicine, Practice, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Medical notebook on medicine and surgery
37. Medical recipes. Imago mundi... [etc.]
- Published / Created:
- between 1400 and 1450.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 40 vault
- Image Count:
- 104
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in two unidentified hands, written on paper (leaves 1-92) and parchment (leaves 93-102). Contains medical recipes and lists of herbs in Middle English (incipit: Here begynne goode medecynes; ff. 5-71), French provers in verse (incipit: Ce sont les proverbes des philosophes), Macer's De virtutibus herbarum (ff. 76-92), Honorius Augustodunensis' Imago mundi (f. 93-100).
- Alternative Title:
- Medical recipes [in English] ; Imago mundi de Asia, Africa et Europa: Asia a regiam [in Latin] and Imago mundi de Asia
- Description:
- In Middle English, Middle French, and Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: gothic cursiva., Decoration: some two-line initials in red ink. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 48-56 lines., Binding: contemporary wooden boards portion of back cover missing., and Watermark is a variant of Briquet 5353 (Bologna 1432) and Briquet 5351 (Sienna 1410).
- Subject (Topic):
- Cosmology, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Medical recipes. Imago mundi... [etc.]
38. Medical vade mecum
- Published / Created:
- between 1400 and 1499.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 59 vault
- Image Count:
- 212
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a description of several alchemical and medical ingredients and processes. Includes a table of contents, using alchemical symbols, on f. 1: Aurum potabile (ff. 1-4), Lapis animalis (ff. 4-14), Lapis Vegetabilis (ff. 14-19), Lapis mineralis (ff. 19-26), Aurum potabile (ff. 26-30), Tinctura cum mercurio (ff. 30-33), Tinctura magna (ff. 33-36), Das war Auz[] pota[]le (ff. 36-41), Testamentum Raimundi Lulii (ff. 41-58), [mercuriis?] corporibus, Sequitur solutiones, Tinctura animalis, Tinctura albedinis (ff. 77-80), Coagulatio Mercurii (ff. 80-82), De oro argento (ff. 82-83), Verus elixir (ff. 83-86), Secreta Antionii (ff. 86-92), Proiectio (ff. 92-99).
- Description:
- In Latin and German., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic cursiva., Decoration: headings in red ink. Spare rubrication., Layout: single column of around 17 lines., Binding: red vellum binding., and Foliation in later hand.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Manuscripts, Materia medica, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Medical vade mecum
39. Medical works by Hippocrates and Galen, with commentary by Haly Abbas
- Published / Created:
- between 1200 and 1250.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 29 vault
- Image Count:
- 620
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Opera medica Hippocratis, Galeni, et Haly Abbas
- Description:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Medical works by Hippocrates and Galen, with commentary by Haly Abbas
40. Meletiou monachiou peri fyseōs kai tou anthrōpou kataskeuēs. and Μελετίου μοναχίου περὶ φύσεως καὶ του ἄνθρωπου κατασκευής
- Creator:
- Meletius, 8th cent
- Published / Created:
- between 1539 and 1542.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 33 vault
- Image Count:
- 232
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing pseudo-Meletius' De natura hominis eiusque compositione, also known as Constitution of man's body
- Alternative Title:
- Meletii monachii de natura et hominia structura, Meletiou monachou peri fyseōs kai tēs tou anthrōpou kataskeuēs, Meletii monachi de natura hominis eiusque compositione, Constitution of man's body : in Greek, and Μελετίου μοναχοῦ περὶ φύσεως καὶ τῆς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου κατασκευῆς
- Description:
- In Ancient Greek., Title from titlepage., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 21 lines., Binding: vellum, over paper boards. Spinal title: Meletius, De natura et structura hominis, Graece manuscripta., Author also known as Meletius the monk or Meletius of Tiberopolis (Tiberiopoli, Phrygia)., Volume was likely produced in Venice between 1539 and 1542 or Guillaume Pellicier, bishop of Montpellier and ambassador to Venice., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Meletiou monachiou peri fyseōs kai tou anthrōpou kataskeuēs., Μελετίου μοναχίου περὶ φύσεως καὶ του ἄνθρωπου κατασκευής
41. Opera medicinalia
- Creator:
- Ibn Māsawayh, Yūḥannā, -857 or 858
- Published / Created:
- 8 April and 3 July 1448.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 3 Vault
- Image Count:
- 590
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Illuminated manuscript, in several unidentified hands, on parchment, containing a collection of works ascribed to Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh or Johannes Mesue. Contains: Canones universales (ff. 1r-58r), Medicum particularium (ff. 58v-207r), and Grabadin or Antidotarium (Inc.: Scripsimus in libris explanationum; ff. 209r-262r). Also includes Nicolaus Praepositus' Antidotarium (ff. 265r-290v). Various 15th-century medical recipes added in other hands (ff. 207v-208v, ff. 262v-264v, and f. 290v).
- Alternative Title:
- Opera
- Description:
- In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: ten historiated initials in gold and colors: "P" with man wearing red cap (f. 24r); "S" with man teaching wearing red cap (f. 58v); initial wanting, cut (f. 78v); "S" with bearded man teaching (f. 87r); leaf with initial wanting (f. 100); "F" with man teaching wearing red cap (f. 105v); "S" with bearded man teaching (f. 112r); "P" with man teaching, bare head (f. 177v); "E" with bearded man (f. 265r). Alternating red and blue initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 30 lines (ff. 1-102 and ff. 163-207), 26 lines (ff. 103-162), 31 lines (ff. 209-262)., Binding: 18th-century Italian three-quarter green goat over marbled paper. Decorative gold-tooling on spine. Red spine label: Mesue Opera / MS. Membranaceum / Anni 1448., and Colophon on f. 207r: Deo gratias. Amen. n.d.t.s.h.o. die 8 Aprilis 1448. Second colophon on f. 290v: Deo gratias. Amen. n.d.t.s.h.o. die 3⁰ Jullii 1448.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Opera medicinalia
42. Receipts in physic and surgery
- Published / Created:
- between 1350 and 1450.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 27 vault
- Image Count:
- 168
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Receipts in physic and surgery
43. The Paneth codex : forty-six texts concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery
- Published / Created:
- between 1300 and 1325.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 28 vault
- Image Count:
- 1394
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The Paneth codex : forty-six texts concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery
44. The Paneth codex : forty-six texts concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery
- Published / Created:
- between 1300 and 1325.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 28 vault
- Image Count:
- 1394
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The Paneth codex : forty-six texts concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery
45. Thesaurus pauperum
- Creator:
- John XXI, Pope, -1277
- Published / Created:
- beteen 1400 and 1499.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 56 vault
- Image Count:
- 390
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in at least three unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical texts. Includes: recipes for cosmetics (ff. 1-10), herbal (ff. 11-28), medical and pharmacological treatise (ff. 28-42), Petrus Hispanus' Thesaurus Pauperum (ff. 44-122), medical recipes (ff. 123-125), De dolore capitis et emigrania et dolore dencium et gutturis (ff. 126-135), medical recipes--some in English (ff. 135-136), De passionibus et opillacionibus epatis et splenis et apostematibus (ff. 138-141), medical recipes (ff. 141-152), Constantinus Africanus' De passionibus matricis et de omni fluxu menstruoso (ff. 153-166), medical recipes (ff. 167-192).
- Description:
- In Latin and Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: secretary hand., Layout: single column of around 25 lines., Binding: fifteenth-century English dark brown leather binding, blind-tooled with a single strap and clasp. Later covered by a sheepskin chemise binding, now wanting. Pictures available in manuscript file., Watermarks include a bull’s head (Briquet 14345 or 6), and an armorial shield with 3 fleur-de-lys (Briquet 1697 or 8)., and Front pastedown is early printed waste (Dutch or Italian) containing work on clerical topics (e.g. fugiens clericus). End papers are rubricated, 15th-century vellum leaves from a religious work.
- Subject (Topic):
- Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, Therapeutics, Traditional medicine, and Recipes
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Thesaurus pauperum
46. Tou sofōtatou Achmeth iētrou hyiou Abramiaiou tou Bichalet iētrou and Τοῦ σοφωτάτου Αχμεθ ἰητροῦ υἱοῦ Ἀβραμιαίου τοῦ Βιχάλετ ἰητροῦ
- Creator:
- Ibn al-Jazzār.
- Published / Created:
- 1585.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 35 vault
- Image Count:
- 320
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in the hands of Camillus Venetus (ff. 1-68) and his teacher Andreas Darmarius (ff. 68-155), containing books I and II of Ibn al-Jazzar's Viaticum peregrinantium, a translation from Arabic into Greek
- Alternative Title:
- Viaticum peregrinantium / Ibn al-Jazzar ; books 1-2 translated by Synesios ; manuscript written in Greek by Andreas Darmarius 4 July 1585
- Description:
- In Ancient Greek., Title from heading., Script: 16th-century hand (Camillus Venetus and Adreas Darmarius)., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 18 lines., Binding: bound in blind-staped olive sheep. (The same style and color as Medical MS 32.), Text includes books 1 and 2 only (of seven)., Colophon by Andreas Darmarius included at the end (f. 155r): Ὑπὸ Ἀνδρέου Δαρμαρίου τοῦ Ἐπιδαυρίου ἐν τῷ ἔτει αφπε ἰουλλίῳ δ (Hypo Andreou Darmariou tou Epidauriou en tō etei aphpe ioulliō d)., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Tou sofōtatou Achmeth iētrou hyiou Abramiaiou tou Bichalet iētrou, Τοῦ σοφωτάτου Αχμεθ ἰητροῦ υἱοῦ Ἀβραμιαίου τοῦ Βιχάλετ ἰητροῦ
47. Wilhelmi Placentini medici de Saliceto summa conservationis et curationis -- item Chirurgia
- Creator:
- Guglielmo, da Saliceto, approximately 1210-1276 or 1277
- Published / Created:
- 1473.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 54 vault
- Image Count:
- 734
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in two unidentified hands, containing Guglielmo da Saliceto's Summa conservationis et curationis (ff. 1r-275r). Followed, in a third hand, by an alphabetical glossary of plants in Latin and German (ff. 275r-278r). Ends with the text of the Chirurgia (ff. 280-364), ending imperfectly. Texts of the Summa conservationes et curationis and of the Chirurgia were likely written separately in Italy, but bound in Germany
- Alternative Title:
- Summa conservationis & curatione : [and] cyrurgia
- Description:
- In Latin and German., Title from title page (front flyleaf)., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: double column of 51 lines., Binding: German 16th-century half blind-tooled pigskin binding over oak boards with two fore-edge brass clasps, with catches on the upper board. Lower board repaired with one clasp missing. Parchment binding stay (Germany, 15th-century) between ff. 10 and 11). Binding was rebacked and repaired in the 20th century; pastedown and flyleaf were added (watermark "P" with 4 petals on top, not located in Briquet). Leather spinal label with a gold-tooled title: "Guilielmi/ Placentini De [?]/ Saliceto Summa/ Conservationis/ Et Curationis/ 1473"., Title page has colophon: Wilhelmi Placentini medici de Saliceto summa conservationis et curationis -- item Chirurgia. 1473. Claruit auctor tempore Rudolphi I imp..., End of Summa (f. 275) has colophon: Explicit liber quart et ultimus practice phisicalis excellentissimi magistri guilhelmi piacentini 1473., and Two units foliated separately.
- Subject (Topic):
- Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Wilhelmi Placentini medici de Saliceto summa conservationis et curationis -- item Chirurgia
