Medical texts; three MSS. bound together at an early date. French (Southern?), 13th century.

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Title

Medical texts; three MSS. bound together at an early date. French (Southern?), 13th century.

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. misc. c. 73

Place of origin

French, South (?)

Date

13th century, end

Language

Latin

MS. Lat. misc. c. 73 – Part 1

(fol.1ra) John of Seville Epistola Aristotelis ad Alexandrum de regimine sanitatis

(fol.1vb) Ps.-Hippocrates Letter to Maecenas

(fol.2vb) Vindicianus Afer Epistula ad Pentadium

(fol.3ra) Treatise on elements

(fol.3vb) Incipit: Expleto tractatu complexionis elementorum … videndum est ex quot et quibus constat corpus humanum

(fol.4ra) Rubric: De anatomia

(fol.4vb) Note on diet to be observed during each season of the year

(fol.5rb) Note on diet

(fol.5va) Rubric: Quibus signis cognoscatur quis humor sit in causa

(fol.5vb) Rubric: Que medicine purgant humores

(fol. 5vb, margin, marked for inclusion after the preceding item) Rubric: De delicatis medicinam suscipere nequeuntibus capitulum

(fol.5vb) List of syrups

(fol.6va) Rubric: Incipit tractatus de clisteriis, pessariis et suppositoriis et siringis

(fol.7vb) Johannes de S. Paulo Practica

(fol.9ra) Copho Anathomia porci

(fol.10va) Archimattheus Rubric: Incipit liber Galieni de flebotomiis

(fol.11va) Rubric: Incipit modus flebotomandi

(fol.11vb) Rubric: Incipit flebotomia que fieri debet in egritudinibus secundum magistrum Salernum

(fol.13ra) Isidore Etymologiae

(fol.14va) Sapientia artis medicinae

(fol.15ra) Vindicianus Afer Gynaecia

Incipit: Quoniam medicus

(fol.16rb) Rubric: De ratione viscerum vel ventris

(fol.16vb) Rubric: De quattuor humoribus corporis

(fol.17ra) Rubric: De coagulatione seminis et conceptu capitulum

(fol.17rb) Ps.-Hippocrates Ep. ad Antiochum

(fol.17vb) Rubric: Quomodo debeas visitare infirmum

(fol.18ra) Rubric: De ratione medicine

(fol.18ra) Ps.-Hippocrates Prognostica (Capsula eburnea)

(fol.18va) Incipit: Si tinnitus aurium

(fol.18vb) Rubric: Epistola Ypocratis ad Antiochum regem

(fol.19rb) Rubric: Problemata Aristolis[sic] philosophi

(fol.19vb) Rubric: De singulis morbis interrogatio

(fol.20rb) De virtute pigmentorum et herbarum

(fol.20va) Rubric: Amonitio Theodori medici

(fol.20vb) Work on fevers

(fol.21ra) Galen Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo

Note on water

(fol.21rb) Rubric: Incipit genecia Prisciani

(fol.24rb) Liber de muliebria[sic] causa

MS.Lat.misc.c.73 – Part 2

(fol.25) Avicenna Canon medicinae

(fol.79) Avicenna Canon medicinae

(fol.91v) Treatise on avian medicine

MS.Lat.misc.c.73 – Part 3

(fol.94) Razes Liber Almansoris

(fol.121) Razes Liber diuisionum

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

iii + 155 leaves

Decoration

Historiated initial (fol.25) showing a physician holding a urine glass.

Two illuminated initials (fol.1 and 121).

Other large and small initials, red with blue flourishes and blue with red flourishes

Binding

Modern reversed calf binding.

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