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Medicine; Italy, 15th century (partly 1461)

MS. Laud Misc. 617

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Title

Medicine; Italy, 15th century (partly 1461)

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 617

Date

15th century (in part 1461)

Language

Latin

Contents

1. (fol. 1) Medical treatise and extracts
2. (fol. 190v) Rubric: Sequuntur hic aliqui canones curationem. servandi in administratione medicinarum, qui canones summus medicine professor dominus M. Anthonius Cermisonus Patavinus
3. (fols. 194) Guillelmus de Varignana Practica
4. (fol. 199) Bernard de Gordon Lilium medicinae
5. (fol. 202) Petrus de Argellata Cirurgia
6. (fol. 289) Extracts from Galen
7. (fol. 292) Avicenna De uiribus cordis
8. (fol. 303) Peter of Abano De uenenis
9. (fol. 312) Petrus Hispanus Thesaurus pauperum
10. (fol. 332) Galeatius de Sancta Sophia De simplicibus

Form

codex

Support

paper

Physical extent

341 folios

Acquisition

Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1635

Provenance

Colophon, art. 5; not in Watson, Dated and Datable.

Perhaps in England in the 15th century: medical recipe in an English hand, fol. 341v.

Andrew Norton, esquire

Nathaniel Potinger

William Laud, 1573-1645

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Title

Medica

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 617

Summary

Medical treatise and extracts (consilia extracted from Antonius Cermisonus, Bartholomaeus Montagna, and others)

Guillelmus de Varignana, extract

Bernard de Gordon, Lilium medicinae (extract)

Syllanus de Nigris, Liber de morbis variis

Avicenna, De uiribus cordis (tr. Arnold of Villanova)

Peter of Abano, De uenenis

Petrus Hispanus, Thesaurus pauperum

Galeatius de Sancta Sophia, De simplicibus (abridgement)

Date

15th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

341 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 1845 acquired by the Bodleian Library

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Collection contents

Laudian Collection

Medica

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  • Pottinger, Nathanial

  • Argellata, Pietro, -1423

  • Guglielmo, da Varignana, approximately 1270-1339

  • Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311

  • Montagnana, Bartolomeo, active 1422-1460

  • Norton, Andrew

  • Laud, William, 1573-1645

  • Lampis, Johannes de, fl. 1461

  • Mesuë the Younger, -1015

  • Bernard, de Gordon, approximately 1260-approximately 1318

  • Galeatius, de Sancta Sofia, -1427

  • Galen

  • Petrus, de Abano, approximately 1250-approximately 1315

  • Petrus Hispanus, medicus compilator, fl. 1250?-1300?

  • Cermisone, Antonio, -1441

  • Avicenna

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