Platearius (Johannes)

Written in a small gothic script, in double column of 48-50 lines to a column. Large ornamental initial A on the first leaf in red and blue with marginal decoration: other capitals in blue and red, and red and blue: paragraph marks in alternate red and blue, headings in red. Fol. 1, col. 1 (red) Incipiunt Cure Magistri Platearii./AMICUM induit qui iustis precibus amico/rum... col. 2 (red) [Text begins] De febre Effimera./Effimera est febris que fit... 25, col. 1, line 29 ... puluis siccus cum licinio fistule immittatur.//Expliciunt Cure Magistri Platearii. TABULAE remediorum Salernitanae. [Abbreviated] Fol. 25, col. 1, line 31 A PRimo paulo [sic for 'pabulo'] salium medicinalium sapientie... 25v, col. I (Provocantia menstrua)... Calaminta aroma/tica. Olibanum amomum. ameos ambra spiritus [continued in margin between columns] de casiefi [cassiefistule ?] xilab[alsami. opoponac[is]. git ana. 3.ii.

Early 14th Century

1 volume 26ll. folio. 24 x 16cm. On vellum. Original half leather binding over wooden boards, worn: clasp wanting. The fly-leaves at beginning and end, are from a folded folio vellum leaf of a somewhat earlier legal MS., written in double column with marginal glosses, headings and capitals in red, paragraph marks in blue.

Purchased 1911.

The second column of this leaf, and the whole of the last leaf contain receipts and remedies by later 14th century hands. On the recto of the last fly-leaf is a receipt in a 15th century hand 'Pro Simone roncheti Bolus laxativus'. The 'Practica brevis' was first printed at Ferrara in 1488.

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).