Medical tracts

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Title

Medical tracts

Shelfmark

MS. Lyell empt. 2

Place of origin

Austrian

Date

15th century

Language

German

Latin

1. (fol. 8–28v) Tables of medicines showing their bases, properties, make up, dose, and uses

Incipit: ⟨Q⟩uatinus ea que in antidotario Nicolai tradita sunt, quatinus sub quodam conpendio seu conpilacione prae occulis[sic] nostris simplici

Rubric: Sequitur primo de sirupis que habent materiam digerere

Rubric: Nomina oleorum

2. (fol. 29r) Rubric: Incipit tabula de simplicibus medicinis et primo de hiis que habent materiam digerere …

3. (fol. 41Arb) Incipit: ⟨C⟩um o medice ad egrotum vocaberis

(fol. 42rb) Rubric: Nota de inspeccione urine

4. (fol. 43r) Rubric: Incipit tractatus quidam brevis et utilis de pulsibus

5. (fol. 47v) Incipit: Passiones puerorum adhuc in cunabulis existencium

6. (fol. 48vb) Incipit: Quoniam ea que sunt utilia in curacionibus medicine

7. (fol. 51va) Gerardus de Solo Directorium siue Introductorium iuuenum

Incipit: Tres lucis primas noctis tres sanguinis ymas.

8. (fol. 61rb) Compilation on bloodletting

Incipit: Quoniam q⟨uantum⟩ l⟨ibet⟩ inter omnia instrumenta cum quibus medicus operatur

Incipit: Flebotomia est evacuatio universalis … Hec descriptio ponitur ab Avie.

9. (fol. 74va) Bernard de Gordon Rubric: Incipit tractatus magistri Bernhardi de Gordonio de regimine morborum acutorum

Compilations largely deriving from treatises by Bernardus de Gordonio

a. (fol. 82ra) Bernard de Gordon Rubric: Incipit tractatus de urina cum curacione quorundam morborum magistri Bernhardi de Gordonio abreviatus

Incipit: In multis libris copiose et suffidenter de disposicionibus urine tractatur … Ego autem de ea aliud dicturus longitudini peperd et quedam non parum utilia de urine significatis ex diversis actoribus agregavi

Incipit: (fol. 82v) Primus magistrorum omnium Ypocras docuit pronosticare

b. (fol. 110vb) Bernard de Gordon Rubric: Incipit preciosus tractatus de pronosticacione magistri Bernhardi de Gordonio abreviatus in Monte Peslano collectus summa cum diligentia

Incipit: Sicut testatur primus magister omnium medicorum

Incipit: (fol. 111va) Intelligendum est primo quod clavis todus pronosticacionis

11. (fol. 141va) Bernard de Gordon De decem ingeniis curandorum

12. (fol. 149vb) Bernard de Gordon Rubric: Incipit tractatus eius de reumate abreviatus

Incipit: Quia de reumate sepe et frequenter in causa

Incipit: (fol. 150r) Galienus in libro suo ad Glauconem tres sunt spedes reumatis. The work

13. (fol. 158vb) Bernard de Gordon Incipit: De remediis venenorum et contra morsum eorundem aliqua hic collegi ex dictis Arnoldi. Primo contra morsum camis rabii

14. (fol. 160r) Bernard de Gordon Lilium medicinae

15. (fol. 202rb) Rubric: Incipit regimen bonum et utile de nefretica passione a magistro Iohanne compilatum

Bernard de Gordon Lilium medicinae

a. (fol. 205v) Rubric: Incipit liber quintus qui est de passionibus membrorum nutritivorum prime digestive…

Incipit: (fol. 206ra) Transglucio cibi est motus

b. (fol. 265vb) Incipit: Et si apostema fuerit frigidum addatur hiis allumen

17. (fol. 266rb) Two recipes for medicines

Incipit: Nota hoc electuarium laxativum quod solo odoratu laxat

Incipit: Item alliud quod capud alleviat, stomachum purgat, appetitum confortat et visum clarificat.

Medical recipes

There is an original list of contents (numbered i–xvii) on the front pastedown, written in two hands, the first of which may be the scribe of the MS. There is an alphabetical index in the near contemporary hand which foliated the MS. (fol. 267–76, completed on fol. 3–4v) and a list of contents in the same hand, with the items numbered continuously up to cxlvij (beg. imperf. fol. 6v at no. xlv (fol. cxi), continued and completed on fol. 276–278).

Form

codex

Support

paper, watermarks in main part of MS., a human head, cf. Briquet nos. 15600–3; spectacles, close to Briquet 10622 (last 3 quires only); watermark in the first, added quire (fol. 2–6) not clearly visible.

Physical extent

284 leaves (fol. 1, 32, 71, 78, 132, 163, 220 are double, fol. 1, ia, 277 are flyleaves, etc.),

Hands

Written in Austria in the 15th cent, in a fine set cursive hand.

Binding

Binding, late 15th cent, in puce dyed leather on bevelled wooden boards with corner bosses (2 missing); clasps on lower cover; lined tooling with triple fillets; plaited headbands. A small rectangular piece has been cut out of the upper cover.

Provenance

Formerly no. 313 in the library of Admont abbey (see book stamp of the library on fol. 2; paper label on spine and 15th–cent. description pasted inside front cover).

Sold by Admont in or after 1934 to L. and A. Brecher of Brünn (Möser–Mersky, op. cit., p. 9).

Bought by Lyell in January 1941 from Davis and Orioli: see their Cat. 78 no. 2; 93 no. 53.

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