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Medical, grammatical, astrological etc. collections of Richard Stapledon; England (Oxford), c. 1430

MS. Digby 29

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Title

Medical, grammatical, astrological etc. collections of Richard Stapledon; England (Oxford), c. 1430

Shelfmark

MS. Digby 29

Date

c. 1430

Language

Latin

Anglo-Norman

Middle English (1100-1500)

Contents

Medical recipes, including against 'ryngeworm', epilepsy; and charms
2. (fol. 2) Table of contents
3. (fols. 2v–8v) Medical recipes including for horses
4. (fols. 9r–v, 37v) Compotus manualis with commentary
5. (fol. 13) John March (15th cent.) De metris
6. (fols. 30v–32v, 34v–37r, 46v–50v, 58–60, 66r–69v, 73, 116r–120v, 143r–v, 274, 276v–277r, 293r–305r) Medical recipes
7. (fol. 33) Grammatical text
8. (fols. 37r, 129) Medical verses on measures
(fols. 38r–(44)) Herbal glossary
10. (fol. 44v–(45)) Antonius Musa De herba vettonica
11. (fol. 45v–(50)) Text on plantain
12. (fols. 50v–58, 64–65) Names and virtues of herbs
(fol. 50v) Incipit: Nomen herbe saturion vel priapistus gallice foteroyle anglice standelgusse
(fol. 64v) Incipit: Absintheum est herba acerima calida et sicca
13. (fols. 60–63v, 112–114, 160v–161, 293) Medical recipes
14. (fol. 70) Rubric: For to knowe yueles that cometh of postoumes, hou it his clepet and of what compleccioun it haren
15. (fols. 73, 114v) Text on urines
16. (fol. 74v) Rubric: Signa que Ypocras fecit ad cognoscendum si infirmus sanari posset per medicinam vel non
17. (fol. 75v) Text on urines
18. (fol. 76v)
Giles of Corbeil De urinis
Commentary on Giles of Corbeil, De urinis
19. (fols. 118v–119v) Instructions for making a sundial
(fol. 120v) Incipit: Sal quo usi sunt sacerdotes Egipti
20. (fol. 121r–125r) Rubric: Anathomia de homine
21. (fols. 125, 130v) With diagrams.
Text on urines
Text on urines
Six verses
22. (fol. 141v) On the four humours in the body
23. (fol. 145v–(153v)) Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum
24. (fol. 153–(161v)) John of Mirfield Breuiarium Bartholomaei
25. (fol. 162r–167r) 'Gerardus Hispanus' Flores Astronomiae
26. (fol. 167.) Ps.-Hippocrates Astrologia medicorum
27. (fol. 172v–(174)) Rubric: Tabule de modo graduandi seu calculandi medicinas secundum magistrum Arnaldum de Villa Nova
28. (fol. 174r–(178v), 181v–(184)) Medical-astrological text in eight chapters
29. (fols. 179r–181) Text on the virtues of constellations and planets, with table
30. (fol. 184v–185r–193r) Rubric: De infirmis si morientur vel vivent, de flebotomia, de temporibus dandi medicinas, per astronomiam
31. (fol. 193r–v) Sphaera Pythagorae
32. (fol. 194v–(195v)) Astrological text
33. (fols. 196–200) Astrological texts on the zodiac, planets, days of the week etc.
34. (fols. 200–201) Astrological text: tables related to the fixed stars, planets, and movable bodies
35. (fol. 201v–(204v)) Short medical text
36. (fol. 205) Incipit: Alhosor, id est species zucrati duri
37. (fol. 208) 'Macer' De uiribus herbarum
38. (fol. 244) Antidotarium Nicholai
(fol. 274r) Seven verses on anatomy
39. (fol. 274v) Text on the astrolabe
40. (fol. 275) Text on shorthand
41. (fol. 278) Trotula
42. (fol. 292r) Astrological text
43. (fol. 292v) Rubric: Tabula ad sciendum quando flebotomia est bona vel mala vel mediocris
44. (fol. 294v) John of Burgundy Tractatus de morbo epidemiae
45. (fol. 295v) Treatise on rosemary
46. (fols. 299–300) Herbal text

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Decoration

Diagrams. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 889)

Acquisition

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634. There is a description of the manuscript in Gerard Langbaine's Adversaira, vol. iv, pp. 699-714.

Provenance

Largely written by Richard Stapleton, Master of Balliol College, Oxford.

Given by him to Balliol College: erased inscription, fol. 2, legible by ultraviolet light: 'Istum librum dedit M. Ricardus Stapulton cathenandum in Iibraria ColJegii Balliolensis (cf. MSS. Balliol College 197 and 219). Stapulton was Master of Balliol c. 1430 and gave MSS. 197 and 219 to the College; see Mynors, Balliol, xx, 213 et seq., 282.

On fol. 305v is 'Cesely Margarete borne Joh'i[?] bolytowe' (s. xv), and 'Rychard Goodwyn' (s. xv). At the top of the same leaf is 'ijClxiiij levys.'

Probably later in the possession of John Dee (Roberts & Watson, MI77).

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665. On fol. ii are Digby's motto and name.

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Title

Medicinae contra 'ryngworme'; Tabula contenttorum; Medicinae variae, and others

Shelfmark

MS. Digby 29

Date

c. 1430

Language

English

Physical extent

305 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 1537 acquired by the Bodleian Library (153)

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Medicinae contra 'ryngworme'; Tabula contenttorum; Medicinae variae, and others

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