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Title

Medical miscellany

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 197

Associated place

Avignon

Place of origin

France

Italy(?)

France and Italy variously

Date

s. xv2

s. xv3/4

s. xv med., part dated 1450

s. xiii in.

Language

Latin

Manuscript 1 = Fols. 1–76

1. Fols. 1–31v: 'Paruus tractatus super antidotario'

2. Fols. 33–76v: LANFRANC OF MILAN Cyrurgia parva

Manuscript 2 = Fols. 77–292

3. Fols. 77–96v: BRUNO LONGOBURGENSIS Cyrurgia minor

4. Fols. 97–104v: JOHN DAMASCENUS Anforisimi

5. Fols. 105–25v: ARNOLD OF VILLANOVA 'Amphorisimi seu parabule'

6. Fols. 126–7 Rubric: Isti versus statim sequentes ostendunt et demonstrant cognoscere quatuor complexiones […]

7. Fols. 129–255v: BERNARD DE GORDON Codicillus

8. Fols. 256v–63: GILES OF CORBEIL De urinis

9. Fols. 263–70: GILES De Pulsibus

10. Fols. 270–84v: ARNOLD OF VILLANOVA 'Antidotiarum'

11. Fols. 285–91v: JORDANUS DE TURRE tract on leprosy

Manuscript 3 = Fols. 292–375, iv

12. Fols. 293–304: HUNAIN IBN ISHAQ Isagoge in Tegni Galieni

13. Fols. 304v–32: GALEN Ars parva/Microtechne

14. Fols. 333–46: HIPPOCRATES Aphorismi

15. Fols. 347–54v: HIPPOCRATES Prognostics

16. Fols. 354v–65: THEOPHILUS De urinis

17. Fols. 365v–7v: PHILARETUS De pulsibus

18. Fols. 369–75: HIPPOCRATES Incipit: [unfilled blank for decorated text opening] […] accidentibus in singulis egritudinibus tractantes poenis consensisse feruntur eos quidem in hiis

Form

codex

Support

Comprising three originally separate MSS, all on vellum (the second HSOS/ HFFH, the others FSOS/FHHF).

Physical extent

Fols. iii + 376 (numbered fols. 1–375, iv) + ii (numbered fols. v–vi).

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf, one modern paper flyleaf, and one medieval vellum fiyleaf at the rear, a modern paper flyleaf, and another marbled leaf (v–vi).

Acquisition

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

Provenance

Contents list, s. xv/xvi (fol. iiiv).

Part of a verse (fol. ivv, s. xvi).

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