Compendium of learned medical treatises (Miscellanea Medica XXI)

Contents

1. ff. 1r-53v Rhazes, Liber divisionum

Title: 'Incipiunt [diuisiones rasis]]'

Incipit: 'U[entilata in presentia] cuiusdam [uiri probi rememo] ratio diuisionum...'

Explicit: '...et medicine que eradicant pannum. Expliciunt diuisiones RASIS'.

f. 54r-v blank

2. ff. 55r-103v Constantine the African, Viaticum, incomplete

Title: 'Quoniam quidem ut in rethoricis tullius testatum...'.

Incipit: 'Capillus ex fumo grosso et calido...'

Explicit: '..ex grauitate et grossitudine descendit ad inferiora et findit manus etc.'

3. ff. 104r-145v Gilbert the Englishman, Commentary on the De urinis of Gilles de Corbeil

Incipit: 'Sicut dicit constantinus in pantegni...'

Explicit: '...residuum sermonis est intellectum. Expliciunt uersus egidii cum comento gilberti. deo gracias.'

4. ff. 146r-166v Gentile da Foligno, Commentary on the De urinis of Gilles de Corbeil, incomplete

Incipit: 'Liber iste quem legendum proponimus liber est noue institutionis...'

Explicit: '...potest fieri resolutio quia nulla resolutio ideo'.

ff. 167r-168r blank.

5. ff. 169r-183r Roger of Salerno, Chirurgia parva

Title: 'Hic incipit parua Rogerina. Assit principio sancta Maria nostro'.

Incipit: 'Cum artis medicine due sint partes...'

Explicit: '...nec in eo tempore in quo mulier solet habere menstrua. Explicit parua Rogerina'.

6. ff. 184r-185v Glossary of herbs in Latin, French and English

Begins: 'Appalim gallice pelle unde apella...'

Ends: '...Valeriana frigida idem. Explicit herbarium. Explicit herbrarium'.

7. ff. 185v-186r Anonymous, Tabula electuariorum

Begins: 'Electuaria calefacientia sunt hec. Diamargariton...'

Ends: '...Syrupus violaceus et oxisaccharum'.

8. ff. 186r-191v John of St. Paul, Flores dietarum

Incipit: 'Corpus hominis ex iiii humoribus constat...'

Explicit: '...ex commestione allii et portulacis et casel'

9. ff. 192r-215v Matthaeus Platearius, Circa instans

Incipit: 'Circa instans negotium in simplicibus medicinis...'

Explicit: '...non nocet uero propter diuternam decoctionem. Hic liber est scriptus qui scripsit sit benedictus. Explicit hoc torum pro christo da mihi potum.'

On Matthaeus Platearius's Circa instans see Frank J. Anderson, An Illustrated History of the Herbals (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), pp. 45-50; and Minta Collins, Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions (London: The British Library, 2000), pp. 239, 243, 285-286, 298, 307-308.

10. ff. 215v-216r Anonymous, De urtica, in verse

Incipit: 'Arbitror urticam multum in orbe fore generatam...'

Explicit: 'Et dessicatum multis erit utile causis'.

11. ff. 216v-219r Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epizonium

Incipit: '[E]pizonium ipocratis quod est manifestum ad obseruandum die salutis et mortis...'

Explicit: '...in eadem finiuit [?] uita [?] ex eadem illa [?] frenentes [?] purgat'

12. f. 219r Pseudo-Hippocrates, Capsula eburnea, incomplete

Incipit: '[P]eruenit ad me quod cum ypocras morti appropinquaret...'

Ends imperfectly: '...et significat quod principio egritudinis'

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13. ff. 221r-252r Anonymous, definitions of difficult Latin, Greek and Arabic medical terms

Incipit: 'Aer idem quod dius. Arson idem quod ciclamen...'

Explicit:'...Zuccoraria. N[omen?] in metridato. flos angni [sic] casti. Explicit Liber Iste.'

14. ff. 252v-253r Nicholas Praepositus, Quid pro quo

Incipit: 'Pro aristologia ruta domestica...'

Explicit: '...pro yssopo. Thymum. Explicit quid pro quo.'

15. ff. 253r-257v Arnold of Villanova, De conferentibus et nocentibus

Incipit: 'Conferunt cerebro fetida...'

Explicit: '...Omne iuuans ventosum. Explicit tractatus do conferentibus et nociuis.

16. ff. 257v-258v Notes on medical weights and measures, receipts, etc.

f. 259r-v blank.

17. ff. 260r-263r, alphabetical list of herbs, with synonyms

Begins: 'Amarusca. anglice maathe...'

Ends: 'Christiana...et inde paruuli stipites exeuntes. Expliciunt nomina Herbarum.'

18. ff. 263r-266r Trotula, De ornatu mulierum

Monica Green has identified this as one of the texts which made up the "Trotula Ensemble", although it is not mentioned in her articles "A Handlist of the Latin and Vernacular Manuscripts of the So-Called Trotula Texts. Part I: The Latin Manuscripts" and "Part II: The Vernacular Texts and Latin Re-Writings", Scriptorium 50 (1996), pp 137-175, 51 (1997), pp 80-104 (email communication, 19 Jan 2009)

Incipit: 'Ut mulier suauissima et planissima videatur...'

Explicit: '...ad virum secure attendat etc. Hec de ornatu mulierum dicta sufficiant. Explicit Liber. De Ornatu. mulierum. Secundum Galienum.'

19. ff. 266v-280v Lanfranc of Milan, Chirurgia parva

Incipit: 'Intendens uenerabilis amiee bernarde....'

Explicit: '...succus malorum macianorum. 1. de bosto.'

20. ff. 280v-297r Rhazes, De doloribus juncturarum

Incipit: 'Dixit rases uolo in hoc capitulo dicere medicins...'

Explicit: '...accipe ceruse. 3 . 1. cuforbii. 3. 1. oleum quod sufficit. confice.'

21. ff. 297r-307r Anonymous, Experimenta

Incipit: 'Dixit Galienus. Ignis qui descendit super altare...'

Explicit: '...donec remaneat libra. 1. cola.'

For a discussion of the 'Experimenta' of 'Galen' or Rasis, see Thorndike A History of Magic and Experimental Science Vol. II pp. 751 et seq.

14th Century

1 volume 307 ll. 4to. 20 1/2 x 14 cm. On vellum: 18th century quarter calf binding over wooden boards: back-strip damaged. Nos. 2, 4, and the last work are incomplete. Ff. 62, 63, 72, 98 are slightly defective: the first and last leaves stained and rubbed. Between fol. 98 and fol. 99 is a contemporary inserted vellum slip. There are three main scripts, and two others.

Purchased 1910.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Pasted inside the upper cover is the armorial book-plate of T. Beale M. A. on which is written: 'Edoardus Hanford de Woolershill' in Agro Wicciensi Armiger Qui obiit 15 Men. Anno Domini 1766, olim D. D.'