Hippocrates, with Galen’s Commentaries and Tegny

Title

Hippocrates, with Galen’s Commentaries and Tegny

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 10

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiii ex.

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (HSOS/HFFH).

Physical extent

ii + 122+ v (numbered fols. 123–25, iii–iv).

Hands

Written in two sizes of gothic textura quadrata. Punctuation by point, punctus elevatus , and double punctus .

Decoration

No headings but colophons in text ink, introduced by a red or blue paraph or a 1-line blue lombard on red flourishing.

At the heads of the texts, 8-line red and blue lombards on red and blue flourishing with red and blue bar extenders in the upper and left margins; similar 4- to 6- line lombards for major inner divisions with extended marginal bars.

The individual sections of the text are introduced by 2- or 3-line blue lombards on red flourishing, the commentary by 1-line red examples on blue flourishing.

Running titles in alternate red and blue lombards indicate the title (abbreviated to one or two letters) and book number.

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf and a modern paper flyleaf; at the rear, three medieval flyleaves ( fol. 123single and pasted to fol. 124, fols. 124 + 125a bifolium), a modern paper flyleaf, and another marbled paper leaf (iii–iv).

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegii Divi Johannis Baptistae Oxon’ ex dono Domini Gulielmi PaddejMilitis et ejusdem Collegij olim Convictoris 1634’ ( fol. 2, upper margin).

Provenance

‘simile habetur de experimento a Iohanne de sancto amando’ ( fol. 1raupper margin in the gutter, s. xiv).

A series of cautiones, all but the first erased: ‘Caucio Magister Waltter de Kelmescotexposita in cista Viennie in die Sancti Edmundi achiepiscopi archiepiscopi in heme pro xx solidAnno domini Mo cccmo tricesimo quinto et tradatur eidem d Magistro Iohanni de Tichemersh’ (fol. 125v), as well as a note ‘precij xxiiij s.’. For these two, neither recognized as a physician, see BRUO 1030 and 1875 respectively.

An institutional ex-libris, only partially legible under a reagent stain, apparently beginning ‘ Liber’ and concluding with the donor’s name ‘ per Magistrum Willielmum Walmete' (fol. 1, lower margin, s. xiv ex.?). Perhaps to be associated with what appears an old shelf-mark ‘p icus vus’ in the upper margin. A William Walmete was at Merton 1324 x 1335, an MA in 1331; his first benefice was in the gift of Glastonbury Abbey. For him, see BRUO 1959 .