Isaac Judaeus

De febribus. [Latine versus a Constantino Africano.] Written in double column of 30 lines to a column. Capitals, paragraph marks and headings in red.

Fol. 1 [O] te fili Karissime iohannes lacri/mas mesto cordis dolore/perpetim effundere perspexi./... col. 2 (Text begins) [L]iber iste in v diuiditur partes. prime est de essentia febris/et eius diffinitione... f.71v ... propter sanguinem/qui est eius materia et propter uicinitatem cordis.//Explicit liber febrium ysa/ac. amen.

This is followed for the rest of this column, the whole of the next column and half of fol. 72, by a note on plague by a later hand beginning 'Causa pestilencie est/aer putridus et corruptus...', and ending 'in corde et in aliis membris principalibus'. [Cf. Thorndike Catalogue of Incipits. Col. 89, and Singer 'Catalogue of Plague Texts'. No. 48.]

There are marginal notes in Latin by several contemporary and later hands-the same as those in MS. No. 369. [Isaac Judaeus.].

Early 14th Century

1 volume 72 ff. folio. 26 1/2 x 18 1/2 cm. On vellum, modern crushed morocco extra binding by Bedford.

Purchased at Sotheby's (Dunn Sale), 13/2/1913, Lot 540.

This treatise was first printed as part of the Author's 'Opera omnia' at Lyons in 1515. On fol. 36v the name 'Loke Boyn' followed by a word which may be 'Lydys' or 'Cydys'. The MS. is almost certainly written by an English scribe, and originally formed part of the same volume as MS. No.369.

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).

This material has been digitised and can be freely accessed online through Wellcome Collection catalogue.

Book-plate of Sir Henry Hope Edwardes [1829-1900], and Library-label of George Dunn [-1912], with a pencilled date (June 1901), initials and note 'English work' on a fly-leaf. Sold at Christies 20/5/1901.