Medica; England, ss. xiiimed–xivin

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Title

Medica; England, ss. xiiimed–xivin

Shelfmark

Exeter College MS. 35

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiv/xv

s. xivin

s. xiiiex

s. xiii2

ss. xiiimed–xivin

Marginalia of s. xiiiex.

Fols. 46v–50v: s. xiiiex

Fols. 41–46r: s. xiiimed

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Latin

Anglo-Norman

Exeter College MS. 35 – Part *A (fol. iii)

(fol. iiir) [A list of the capitula of chapters 36–64 of the Itinerarium of Marco Polo, as in Antwerp, 1485 edn.]

Exeter College MS. 35 – Part B (fols. 1–12)

i. (fols. 1r–12v) Incipit: Quedam animalia sunt simplices diuisibiles in partes similes que solum partes dicuuntur

*ii. (fol. 12v) Incipit: Nota quod duodecim sunt sirupi communes qui recipiuntur in apotheca(?). Primus est Synnel ... Siripus de citoniis

*iii. (fol. 12v) Incipit: Unguentum atharmita magm. relat. ad Alexandrum quo ungiur uenter et ylia

Exeter College MS. 35 – Part C (fols. 13–36)

(fols. 13r–36v) Gerard of Montpellier or Gerard of Cremona Summa de modo medendi

Exeter College MS. 35 – Part D (fols. 37–40)

i. (fols. 37r–39v) Trotula

ii. (fols. 39vb–40va) Ps.-Hippocrates Epistola ad Antiochum regem

iii. (fol. 40va) Rubric: Alia epistola. Ypocratis ad Antigonum.

Exeter College MS. 35 – Part E (fols. 41–50)

i. (fol. 41r) A list of herbs, roots, etc. for medical use

ii. (fols. 41ra–46r) Alphita or Synonima herbarum

iii. (fols. 46v–49v) Roger Bacon Liber de creticis diebus

Exeter College MS. 35 – Part F (fols. 51–86)

i. (fols. 51r–67r) Ægidius Corboliensis, De Pulsibus, with the commentary of Gentilis de Fulgineo

Ægidius Corboliensis De pulsibus

Gentilis de Fulgineo Commentary on Giles of Corbeil's De Pulsibus

ii. (fols. 67v–68v]) De urinis

iii. (fols. 68v–70r) De urinis

iv. (fol. 70v) Nicholaus Praepositus? Quid pro quo

v. (fols. 71r–86r) Ægidius Corboliensis, De urinis (in verse, with the prose preface but without the verse epilogue), and with the commentary of Gentilis de Fulgineo

Ægidius Corboliensis De urinis

Gentilis de Fulgineo Commentary on Giles of Corbeil's De urinis

vi. (fol. 86v) Verses

A gap in the numbers of the columns shows that some forty-three leaves are missing from the book at this point: see History, below.

Exeter College MS. 35 – Part G (fols. 87–235)

i. (fols. 87r–101v) Ps.-Aristotle Secretum secretorum

ii. (fols. 102r–107r) Roger Baron Rogerina minor

iii. (fols. 107r–108r) Medical text on diet

iv. (fols. 108r–121v) Ricardus Anglicus Signa

v. (fols. 121v–134v) Johannes de S. Amando Expositio super antidotario Nicholai

vi. (fol. 135r) Medical distinctiones and ‘Si vis scire utrum eger morietur uel viuet’

vii. (fols. 135v–206r) Geraldus (Giraud) Bituricensis Commentary on Isaac Judaeus's Viaticus, in the translation of Constantinus Africanus

viii. (fols. 206r–227v) Gilbertus Anglicus (‘Gilbertus de Aquila’) Commentary on Ægidius Corboliensis, De urinis

ix. (fols. 227v–229r) De ornatu mulierum

x. (fols. 229v–235v) Albertus Magnus Mineralium lib. 1 tract. 1.

Exeter College MS. 35 – Part H (fols. 236–254)

i. (fol. 236r) De lapidibus pretiosis

ii. (fol. 238rv) Johannes Stephanus of Montpellier Ars medicinarum laxativarum

iii. (fol. 239rv) Virtutes vini

iv. (fols. 240r–243r) John Tolet, OCist., cardinal, bp. of Porto (attrib.) De conseruanda sanitatis

v. (fols. 243r–245r) Walter Agilon (attr.) Rubric: Incipiunt iudicia urinarum secundum magistrum G. Agilon

vi. (fols. 245r–249r) Walter Agilon Contenta urinarum

vii. (fols. 249v–253ra/22) Ricardus Anglicus Regula de urinis

viii. (fols. 253rb/24–254rb/2) Ricardus Anglicus(?) De ornatu

ix. (fol. 254rv) Johannes de Parma (?) Rubric: Magister J. de Parma de regimine contra sterilitatem.

Exeter College MS. 35 – Part I (fols. 255–263)

i. (fols. 255r/1–255vb) Medical notes

Incipit: || Quoniam plurium medicorum constituciones ultra annum

Incipit: [fol. 255r/24] Cum paulina datur ptisicis bona non operatur

Incipit: [fol. 255rb] Si vult facere oleum benedictum

Incipit: Hoc oleum est de secretis philosophorum

Incipit: Oleum ad guttum non fuerit in capite

Incipit: Spongia soporificera sic fit.

ii. (fol. 256r) Hugh of Lucca Cirurgia

iii. (fols. 256r–262ra/41) Archimathaeus(?) Modus medendi

iv. (fols. 262ra–v) Excerpts

v. (fols. 262v–263r) Medical notes

vi. (fol. 263r) Ps.-Arnaldus de Villa Nova De visitando (visitatione) infirmorum

vii. (fols. 263rv) An antidotary

Exeter College MS. 35 – Part J (fols. 264–270)

i. (fols. 264r–270v) Johannes de S. Amando De basibus medicinorum

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Binding

Sewn on four bands. Standard Exeter binding: simple and quite elegant, calf over millboards, the calf bearing blind decoration of a floral type, early 19th century. The spine is original but it has been removed and reattached; it is elaborately tooled, as is that of MS 33. At the foot of fol. 111 are holes which were probably caused by a chain plate. To assist consultation, sixteen tabs were attached to the first leaves of major items, perhaps, judging from ‘De’ on the tab on fol. 229, in the 16th century.

Provenance

The volume comprises ten roughly coeval parts, A-J, preceded and followed by flyleaves. Since the leaves of B, I, and J were similarly extended at an early date, they and all the parts between them probably originated in one place and there is nothing to suggest that they were not united soon after. At some stage, however, after the columns had been numbered, some 43 leaves were lost between fols. 86 and 87, i.e. at the end of section F, and as a result cols. 472–642 are lacking.

There is no evidence about the book’s history before it was given to the College (in 1383 according to Rector’s Accounts for Trinity Term in that year), but that it was much used is suggested by extensive annotations and the means by which access to the texts was facilitated, viz. the provision of tabs and the numbering of all columns throughout to ‘1465’ (although this was done with a good deal of error in the way of omitting or repeating numbers).

Titles in a hand of s. xviiin on items F(ii) and F(iv) and the numbering of items ‘1’ to ‘25’ passim in a hand which is certainly post-medieval show that the book continued to be of interest.

Pen-trials with the name ‘Johannes Mortymer’ were written on fols. 1r and 11v at a time (s. xv/xvi) when the book was certainly at Exeter, but he has not been identified as an Exeter man (fol. 1r ‘Ego Johannes mortymer portaba’; (fol. 11v) ‘Johannes mortymer versus. Fert flaue regnant floret ...’).

The gift of the book to the College is recorded on fol. iiiv, ‘Hunc librum dedit magister Henricus Whitefeld Rectori et Scolaribus de Stapeldonhall Oxon’ ad vsum studij eorundem dumtaxat et eorum successorum’ and on fol. 1r, ‘Liber de Stapeldenhall Ex dono magistri Henrici Whitefelde.’ On Whitefeld, still alive and archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1384 and joint donor also of MS 28 above, see BRUO.

At the foot of fol. 1 and on fol. 270v is ‘ES’ and at the foot of fol. 2r are five names, ‘Whiddon’, ‘Stroude’, ‘Hipslye’, ‘Merscer’, and ‘Dod’, in a hand of s. xviiin. Francis Whiddon, John Strode, and Thomas Dod are recorded as donors of plate to the College in Boase1, lix, Boase2, 277, Dod’s gift being dated 1620. Merscer may be Robert Mercer, who matriculated in 1619 and died in 1623 (ibid. 98). For several Hippisleys, s. xviimed, see Boase1, pt. 2, 157.

Not recorded in Ecloga or CMA.

Exeter library identifications are, on the front pastedown, bookplate 3 on which are ‘P8—4 Gall’ (deleted), ‘172–E–4’, ‘MSS XXXV’ (pencil). On fol. iiiv are bookplate 1, and ‘2’.

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