Hippocrates, v460-v370

Hippocrates, with Galen’s Commentaries and Tegny St John's College MS 10

Medical miscellany St John's College MS 197

ARTICELLA, CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN; S. XIII1 Merton College MS. 255

MEDICA; S. XV Merton College MS. 324

ARTICELLA &c.; S. XIV Merton College MS. 220

ARTICELLA &c.; S. XIII ex. Merton College MS. 221

HIPPOCRATES, GALEN &c; S. XIII 3/4 Merton College MS. 222

Galen, Hippocrates, v460-v370 — 14th century University College MS. 89

5 works by 3 authors on the subject of Medicine — 15th cent.? MS. Marsh 215

The volume contains 133 leaves. Folios 128b, 129ab, and 130b are blank. Folio 128a has a later note classifying twenty-five worldly activities (اعمال الدنيا). Folio 130a contains a fragment of the books of wisdom in the Septuagint, quoting Solomon the Wise (سليمان الكلي الحكمة) and the book of Ḥunayn [= Yashūʿ] ibn Shīrāḥ [the book Sirach]; see Graf, GCAL, i. 128. Folio 131ab is another fragment from the wisdom literature, while folios 132a−133b contain the moral narrative of an unnamed ruler who seeks the counsel of his wazir regarding the state of his soul following his necessary departure from this world, possibly composed by a monk (al-rāhib, folio 133b). — 1299?* MS. Bodl. Or. 231

The volume contains 134 leaves and i–viii front endpapers; the latter are blank except for the UAM catalogue entry number on folio ia and a Latin note by Steinschneider on folio viiib reading: Comm. in Hippocr. auctore Maimonide ut ex collatione cum versione hebr. primus detexi (Steinschneider). Folios 46a, 55–60, 92a, 107, 108a, 114b, 115–18, 119a, and 132 are blank (folios 55–60, 107, and 115–18 are modern watermarked papers). Folio 132 (bearing the numeral 427 and the Bodleian Library stamp) is bound upside down and was apparently at one time found at the end of the volume. Folios 1–55 and 61–106 are paginated in Coptic numerals. Folio 51 has the remnants of a silk fore-edge marker. On folio 1a an Arabic table of contents for the entire volume has been added across the top of the folio by a later reader. On the bottom edge of the volume there is written مجموع شروح فصول ابقراط. — Multiple dates MS. Huntington 427

Ammonius Grammaticus, Hippocrates, Ps.-Euripides, Ps.-Hippocrates — 15th century, middle or last quarter; Italy, North MS. Auct. T. 2. 10

Gilbert the Englishman — 14th century, early MS. Bodl. 720

Hippocrates — 14th century, early MS. Barocci 204

9 works by 6 authors on the subjects of Medicine, Soap, Islamic magic, Cosmography, and Astrology — Multiple dates MS. Bodl. Or. 68

The volume consists of 85 leaves, but folios 2, 12, 27–34, 68-9, 76–9 and 83–5 are interleaving folios or endpapers, all of which are blank except for folios 2a and 34ab, which has some pencilled English notes. Folio 82b is blank. There are seven items in the volume most of them magical treatises, and one(ff. 3r-24v) medical compendium attributed to Hippocrates. On folio 1a there are talismanic designs in red ink with accompanying poetry and on folio 1b a chapter (bāb) giving a magical procedure is written in a different hand in black ink. Folio 25a has a geomantic taskīn drawn on the bottom half, while at the top a different hand has entered diagonally a legal note concerning the validity of waqf al-ʿaqār (the endowment of real estate) according to the Ḥanafī school. Folio 34b has a pencilled English translation of the beginning of the fourth item; the latter is illustrated with magic squares, magical alphabets, and a 5 × 5 square with symbols for God superimposed over a small human figure (folio 43b); there is also a full-page human figure labelled with magical inscriptions on folio 67b; al-Būnī (d. c. 622/1225) is mentioned on folio 51a as a source. Item five in the volume (folios 70a–74a) is also in part taken from al-Būnī’s Shams al-Maʿārif . — 19th cent.? MS. Arab. e. 110

The volume contains 171 leaves plus two preliminary leaves and two end leaves. Folio 171b has 24 lines of casually written recipes useful, amongst other things, for the pain of gnashing teeth, for producing a peaceful sleep, for increasing sexual enjoyment, for toothache, and for throbbing pain. The preliminary and end leaves are blank except for (on the second preliminary leaf) the ex libris of Archbishop Laud dated 1635 and a statement in the same Latin hand that the volume contains Galen’s commentary interpreted by ‘Harim Ben Isaac’. MS. Laud Or. 139

Ars medicinae (Articella); France or Germany, 13th century, end MS. Laud Lat. 106

The volume consists of 227 folios and 5 preliminary leaves. Folios 2−226 were written by the same copyist and on the same type of paper and consist of twenty-eight numbered quires of eight folios each (except the first quire of seven folios and some disturbance in the two middle quires). Traces of Arabic numerals are visible in the upper left corners of some of the quires; on the lower left-hand corners upper-case letters of the Roman alphabet have been written, in sequence, beginning with folio 9 (labelled B). The letter S occurs on the quire beginning with folio 130, T on folios 138a and then again on folio 146a, V on folio 148a, X on folio 154a, Y on folios 162a, and Z on folio 170a. Thereafter, the alphabet repeats, with each letter given in both upper case and lower case (‘Aa’on folio 178; ‘Ff’ on folio 218). There are seven later owners’s notes (names not legible) and couplets written on folio 2a. Folio 2b is blank. The upper half of folio 3a has been defaced; the label Kitāb fī al-ṭibb has been written on it in brown ink, and on the lower half of the folio miscellaneous medical notes have been added by the same hand as added paragraphs to other folios within the treatise. Folio 227a (with horizontal laidlines and chain lines in groups of 3s) has two recipes: one for ulceration taken from Quṭb Shīrāzī [= Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī who died in 710/1311] and an eye remedy ‘belonging to the West’ (shiyāf lil-gharb) said to be from the Aqraādhīn of one Filānīsī (فلانيسي). On folio 227b there are even more casually written recipes, several for maʿjūns. Folio 1 is not a part of the original set of quires labelled with Latin letters. Folio 1 is of different paper (no visible laid or chain lines) and was at one time folded; folio 1a has later notes in five different hands written at various angles, including an Arabic note stating the number of leaves to be 225, a Latin notation of subject, a Persian couplet, and a recipe that is repeated in a different hand on the facing folio (preliminary folio vb). Folio 1b has eight recipes written in very casual hands, includng one taken from the Minhāj al-dukkān (written in 658/1260 by al-Kūhīn al-ʿAṭṭār al-Hārūnī al-Isrāʾīlī (fl. 658/1260). On preliminary folio vb a piece of paper similar to that of folio 1 has been pasted on. The five preliminary leaves (front endpapers) are of watermarked paper (shield and the letter JC). On preliminary folio iiia the number from the Golius Sale Cat. is recorded as well as the number N. 229 and the catalogue number as in UAM; there is also a Latin label from a spine, probably on the volume before rebinding in the nineteenth century, now pasted onto folio iiia, and a note by Steinschneider written in 1852 identifying the author, incorrectly, as Ibn el Talmid. The remaining preliminary folios are blank. — ?13th cent. MS. Marsh 537

Theological treatise and extracts — 12th century, second half – 13th century, first half; English MS. Ashmole 1285

Gerard of Montpellier, Hippocrates, Petrus Hispanus — 15th century MS. Canon. Misc. 564

Miscellaneous Texts MS. Holkham Gr. 106

The volume contains 97 leaves. Folios 1a, 17a, 18b, and an unnumbered folio between 17 and 18 are blank. There are four preliminary folios: folio ia has Arabic and Latin titles for the first item in the volume, with the lower quarter torn away; folios iia, iiia, and ivab have Arabic pious phrases, prayers, and a note of purchase for 20 dinars, written in Maghribī script; folios ib, iib, and iiib are blank. MS. Marsh 71

Alfragnus — 14th century and 15th century MS. Rawl. C. 543

Matteo Corti (?) — 16th century MS. Canon. Misc. 568

Hippocrates, Galen — 14th century, end MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 272

Hippocrates, Iohannes Mesue — 15th century (in part 1477) MS. Canon. Misc. 488

Index to Hippocrates MS. Auct. T. 5. 18

Jacobus de Forli — 15th century, second quarter; Italian, Bologna (?) MS. Canon. Misc. 439

Works by Galen and Hippocrates MS. Holkham Gr. 92

Iohannitius, Hippocrates, Theophilus, Philaretus, Galen, Isaac Iudaeus, Constantinus Africanus — 13th century, third quarter; English MS. Auct. F. 5. 30

Hugo Bentius — 1462; [Genoa?, Italy] MS. Canon. Misc. 445

Johannes de Corpo, P. de Capite-Stagno — 1459–1460; English, Salisbury (?) MS. Laud Misc. 558

Johannitius, Hippocrates, Theophilus, Philaretus, Galen — 13th century, second quarter; French or English MS. Laud Lat. 65

Hippocrates, Aristotle — 16th century; Italian MS. Lat. class. e. 19

Ars medicinae (Articella) and other medical texts in Latin and German; 13th century, first half, with additions MS. Lat. misc. e. 2

The volume contains 65 leaves. Folio 54a is blank. Folio 22 has been cut out from the volume and is now missing except for a 30 mm strip still attached in the gutter. Folio 23 is blank. Folios 24a–25b are bound in upside down in the volume. Folio 26 is blank except for two lines of casually written poetry; folio 27a is blank. Folio 57a is a later fihrist to the fragment comprising item 6; folio 56b is blank. The two front and two back endleaves are blank, except for the UAM entry number. — Multiple dates MS. Selden Superius 44

Commentary on Johannitius, Isagoge ad Artem paruam Galeni, Commentary on Hippocrates, Aphorismata, Commentary on Theophilus, Liber urinarum, Commentary on Hippocrates, Prognostica, Commentary on Philaretus, Liber pulsuum — 12th century, second half; French, South MS. Digby 108

Hippocrates, Galen MS. Marshall 72

Isaac Iudaeus, Hippocrates, Johannes Mesue, Galen — 14th century, end MS. Canon. Misc. 307

The volume contains 130 leaves. It is a collection of miscellaneous pieces in Persian and Arabic in an unusual format. Through the greater part of the volume, four (and sometimes five) different texts run side by side on the same page. The centre of each page usually has two columns of writing; some treatises will be written in the right column of the front-side of a leaf and continued in the left-hand column of the back-side, while others will occupy the left column of the front-side of a leaf and the right-hand column of the back-side; the item catalogued here falls in the latter category. For a list of the other items, see the Concordance of Manuscripts (Appendix I)in Emilie Savage-Smith; A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Volume I: Medicine, Oxford: OUP, 2011, and SEB I, cols. 1093−6 no. 1904, for further details. MS. Huntington donat. 18

Regula S. Benedicti — 14th century, first half; German MS. Laud Misc. 237

Johannitius, Hippocrates, Benedictus Reguardatus, Petrus de Abano, Guy Chauliac — 15th century MS. Ashmole 1475

Miscellaneous notes on medicine MS. Laud Or. 113

The volume contains 169 folios. Folio 118b has a table of contents written by a tenth/sixteenth-century hand for the second item in the volume. A table of contents for the first item is written by the same hand on the front pastedown, which also has a one-line Karshūnī note reading Kitāb Ibn Abī Ṣādiq, as well as Latin notes regarding the nature of the two main items in the volume, a Latin version of the opening of the first aphorism, and the date 20 March 1667. Folio 167a−b has a short discourse by one Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Jamāl al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Sharaf al-Dīn Ismāʿīl ibn al-Ṭurays al-mutaṭabbib, written in a large and fairly early hand with many ligatures and very few dots, in which he says that the most noble of books on the medical arts is the Aphorisms of Hippocrates along with the Taqdimat al-maʿrifah (by al-Dakhwār, d. 628/1230), and that he immersed himself also in the Kitāb al-Nīlīyah by Abū Sahl ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Nīlī (d. 420/1029) and the Kitāb al-Asbāb wa-al-ʿalāmāt of al-Samarqandī (d. 619/1222), amongst others. Folio 169ab is blank except for pagination in Arabic numerals. Karshūnī notes providing subject headings occur on folios 89a (al-ṣudāʿ, headache), 133a (fī al-istisqāʾ, on dropsy), 164a (fī al-buḥrānāt, on crises), and 165a (al-ruʿāf al-radī, a persistent nosebleed). — bef. 1369 [13th cent.?] MS. Thurston 10

Matthaeus Platearius — 15th century MS. Canon. Misc. 241