Medical miscellany (Miscellanea Medica XXVII)

Medical miscellany

Contents

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1. ff. 2r-148v Abrotanum est planta plures habens ramisculos plena folliculis ... f. 148v ... Item confortat stomachum et epar infrigidatum. Et hic est finis. Explicit liber simplicium.

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2. ff. 150r-171r Nicholas Praepositus, Antidotarium

f. 150r Aurea alexandrina dicta est ab auro ... f. 171r ... ad receptorium omnium predictarum medicinarum hec pondera sufficiant etc. Explicit Antidotarium. magistri Nicolai.

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3. ff. 173r-187v Lanfranc of Milan, Chirurgia parva

f. 173r Incipit langfrancus minor. Attendens venerabilis amice Bernharde ... f. 187v ... poteris fieri optimum opus medicum aliter autem non. Nisi deus omnipotens hoc faceret infundendo tibi gratiam specialem qui tibi donet gratiam suam mihi veniam peccatori. qui sit benedictus in secula Amen. Explicit Langfrancus minor per me Iohannem Resch de Naw. Norimbergae, xx. die. Mensis Ianuarii Anno etc. Septuagesimo.

Produced in Nuremberg.

1470

1 volume 187 ll. (first bl.). folio. 31 x 21 1/2 cm. Original half sheepskin binding over wooden boards: the two clasps wanting. Margins slightly cropped in binding. Written in a clear gothic script, 39 lines to a page. On the first leaf of the text, floreated marginal decorations. Large decorated initials in colours on ff. 2, 23v, 30, 46v, 49, 52v, 59, 63v, 66, 67v, 69, 83v, 92, 95v, 100v, 112v, 117v, 132v, 138, 144v, 145, 146v, 150, 173. Other capitals, paragraph marks and headings in red. The 'Explicit' on fol. 187v is written within a red pen-drawn scroll. A foliation in pencil has been added.

Purchased 1930.

In the upper margin of fol. 2 is a name written in an early 16th century hand, which may perhaps be deciphered as 'Leobenschberg?. Inscribed inside the upper cover 'Sum Johannis Oberndorfii M.D.' [fl. c. 1600].

Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).