MEDICA; S. XV

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Title

MEDICA; S. XV

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 324

Place of origin

Script of Low Countries appearance.

Date

S. XV

Language

Latin

On f. ii are medical recipes in hands of s. xv and xvi; f. iiv blank. On f. iiiv is a title ‘Liber Marbodi de lapidibus’, s. xvii in.

1. (fol. 1rv) Sententiae from Galen, Plato &c.

2. (fols. 2–95) ASCLEPIUS Speculum Medicorum

3. (fols. 95–7v) Ps.-CLEOPATRA Gynaecia

4. (fols. 97v–9) WALTER AGILON De Retentione Menstruorum

5. (fols. 95rv, 99–114) ‘TROTULA’, De Morbis Mulierum

6. (fols. 114–18v) CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN De coitu

7. (fols. 118v–21v) De phlebotomia

8. (fols. 121v–4v) WALTER AGILON De urinis

9. (fols. 124v–9v) RICHARD THE ENGLISHMAN Regulae de Vrinis (Micrologus, part II)

10. (fols. 129v–30v) ALEXANDER De Vrinis

11. (fol. 130v) Ps.-HIPPOCRATES Epistola ad Maecenatum

12. (fols. 130v–3) HIPPOCRATES Experimenta

13. (fol. 133) HIPPOCRATES Ad Sanitatem Conseruandam

14. (fols. 133–5) HIPPOCRATES De Vrinis

14. (fols. 135–7) De Pulsibus

15. (fols. 137–8v) ?COPHO De Febribus

16. (fols. 138v–42v) Experimenta Parui Alberti de Febribus

17. (fols. 142v–3v) Secretissimum Regis Cateni Persarum de Virtute Aquilae, transl. WILLIAM THE ENGLISHMAN

18. (fols. 143v–5) ASCLEPIUS De Animalibus

19. (fols. 145–51v) Quaestiones Naturales

20. (fols. 151v–3) RICHARD THE ENGLISHMAN Anatomia (Micrologus, part III), extr

21. (fols. 153–5) RICARDUS SALERNITANUS Libellus de Vrinis et Febribus

22. (fols. 155–81v) GERARD OF CREMONA Summa de Modo Medendi

23. (fols. 181v–8v) De Virtute Simplicium Medicinarum

24. (fols. 188v–92v) Practica Equorum

25. (fols. 193–220v) MACER FLORIDUS (ODO OF MEUNG) De Viribus Herbarum

26. (fols. 220v–9v) MARBOD De Lapidibus

27. (fols. 229v–34; 234v–5, 236rv blank) Recipes

27.1. (fols. 229v–30) On the extraction of medicinal waters from flowers

27.2. (fol. 230rv) Incipit: Interpretaciones quorundam uerborum. Cephalica id est capitis dolor. Emeroyda

27.3. (fols. 231–4) Incipit: De uermiculo. Si uis facere uermiculum accipe ampullam uitream et lima foris luto

For arts 2–24 at least this is said to be a direct copy of Bodl. Libr., e Mus. 219 (Green, pp. 160–1, no. 73), written in England, s. xiii ex. The Bodl. MS begins impf., so might originally have contained art. 1 as well. After art. 23 it has three more arts not now in this one.

Form

codex

Support

Paper

Physical extent

239 leaves of paper (iii + 236) The edges heavily retrimmed with loss of marginalia. Water-mark bull-and-star.

Hands

A single scribe, writing proficient Low Countries hybrida.

Decoration

Red initials, paraphs and highlighting (including the punctuation).

Binding

s. xviii, marbled sides backed with calf, sewn on five bands. Fols. i and 236 are blank paper binding leaves. On fols. ii and 235 are the marks of five bosses. Parchment place-markers, cut mainly from a single MS, s. xiv, in a French cursive hand, project from the foredge.

Provenance

At the head of f. 235v is ‘Iste est liber fratris Iohannis Hatfeld’, s. xv, and ‘Jhon Emes’, s. xvi, the second repeated on f. iii. At the head of f. ii is an erased inscription, ‘Liber fratris Willelmi ?Giffard’, and ‘MS. 2256’. On f. iii is ‘Liber fratris Thome Emery de Gadesddene’, smudged. In the margin of f. 123v is ‘Nota bene quod Bryg’’. Hatfield (BRUO 885) was monk of St Albans, scholar at Gloucester College in 1454 and 1456, prior of Belvoir until at least 1480.

At the foot of f. 1 is ‘L. Coll. Merton ex dono Car. King Art. Mag. et Coll. ejusdem Socii.’ Charles King was fellow of Merton 1684–1715.

Inside the front board is ‘Q. 1. 17’, canc. and replaced with ‘O. 1. 2 (CCCXXIV)’ in red; the College bookplate.

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