Medical compendium (Miscellanea Medica XVII)

Medical compendium

Contents

1. ff. 1r-2r De anima

f. 1r Anima vegetiva non est una ... f. 2r ... et sic per accidens.

2. ff. 2r-8v Notes in several fifteenth-century hands on medical recipes and physic.

f. 2r Illud est rarius alio quod sub equali ...

3. ff. 9r-11r Virtutes aque vite, probably based on Arnold of Villanova

f. 9r Hec sunt virtutes aque vitis sive ardentis. Si capilli in radicibus frequenter ... f. 11r ... et sine aliqua lesione.

4. f. 11r De saporibus

f. 11r Novem sunt sapores scilicet dulcis amarus ... et acetus fit a minora.

5. f. 11v Schema on the non-naturals

6. ff. 12r-14v 21 canons on pharmacy

f. 12r In hoc 4o capitulo postquam in presenti posui canones universales ... f. 14v ... farmacies purgan difficile.

7. ff. 15r-19v Albert the Great, Experimenta

f. 15r Omnis sciencia de genere bonorum est ... f. 19v ... ad interrogationem si perpetravit.

8. ff. 20r-v A short description of magnes and a probatio pennae in Italian

9. ff. 21r-34v Hippocrates, Aphorisms, incomplete

f. 21r Ypocrates in prima particula afforismorum. Vita brevis ars vero longa ... f. 34v ... quam corporis motio turbat.

ff. 35r-37v blank

10. ff. 38r-48v Theophilus of Ferrara, Propositiones ex libro physici

f. 38r Incipiunt Auctoritates ... primi libri. Scire et intelligere contingit circa omnes sciencias ... f. 48v ... per se sed per formam.

11. ff. 49r-58r Canons, chapters 6, 1-20-25, on purging

f. 49r Capitulum 6m. Positis canonibus attendentis in euvactione ... f. 58r ... aut flegmaticorum in crudationem.

Mid 15th Century-Early 16th Century

1 volume i + 58 + i ff. 8vo. 14 x 10 1/2 cm. Paper. Written space c. 100x85mm. 25 long lines. Collation: 1(8), 2(12), 3(8), 4(14) wants 7 after f. 34 and 11-14 after f. 37, 5(12) wants 12 after f. 48, 6(14) wants 1-4 after f. 48. Written in several italic hands. Early modern (?) binding - leather over boards.

Purchased 1924.

Written in Italy.

Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see 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).