Sancta Sophia (Galeatius De)(-1427)

Liber simplicium ordine alphaabetic digestus. Written in double column of 37 lines to a column, in a rounded gothic hand. Intials and headings in red.

Fol. 1 (red) Incipit Liber Simplicium galeacii de Santa Sophia famo/sissimi in orbe doctoris.

Col. 1 (red) De Abrotano capitulum. 1./[A]BROTANUM/AUROTANUM/... 110, col. 2 et aqua rosata et rosis et aliis/constrictiuis. Seuitur finis huius.//Expliciunt Repcepta febrium et/pulcerrima simplicia per famo/sissimum artium et medicine doc/torem galeam de sancta sophia/edita et ex dictis sublimorum/medicorum hinc inde collecta quo ad/simplica maxime sub anno domini/MO.ccc 33 scriptaad laudem et/honorem dei omnipotentis eiusque pie/(fol. 110v, col. 1) matris marie uirginis et tocius/curie celestis et commodum mei bar/tholomei etc.//deo gracias.

110v, col. 1, line 4 Incipit Registrum seu tabula infra/scriptorum simplicium./1. Abrotanum/... 112v (Ends) Zizania/Zesur.

Ff. 113v, 114r Medical receipts in Latin and Italian 'per mi Bartolommeo' -but written later.

He may possibly be the younger brother of Galeatius and was also a Professor of Medicine in Padua. He died in 1448.

This MS. is a palimpsest, and there are many faint traces of the original writing. On f. 108v, left margin, turning the manuscript makes visible a passage from the Decretals of Gregory IX: the passage is from book IV, although the recto side shows traces of book numbering that ascribe it to book V. In the third line, there can clearly be read "erat illi indicenda purgatio": the authorised text reads "erat utique illi".

Possibly produced in Padua.