Jacopo Florentino, Fiore de fiori, with medical receipts

Jacopo Florentino, Fiore de fiori, with medical receipts

Contents

1. ff. 1r-62v Jacopo Fiorentino, Fiore di fiori

f. 1r Questo libro e chiamato el fiore di fiori e tracto per mi Jacopo al discreto huomo frate bonagiunta de li dicti di galieno et de avicenna nel. 1419. Allo honore et a la reverentia de la sanctissima trinitade la quale ordino tutto quello che se vede et che non se vede in celo et in terra ... f. 1v Voglio che sapiati che nui aporemo le cure de tutto il corpo. In co mmenciando dai capilli e seguitando per ordine a ciaschuno membro in fino a li piedi. etc. ... f. 62v ... metti vno pocho di sarcorrella et eprovato. finis libri etc.

2. ff. 63r-64r Medical receipts in Italian

3. ff. 64r-71r Domenico Bandini, Receptaria

f. 64r Oleum magistri bandini medici florentini quod pro maximo habebat secreto alias balsamus artificialis vocatum ... f. 71r finis receptorium magistri bandini medici florentini quod pro maximo habebat secreto. laus deo omni potenti etc.

4. ff. 71r-80r Medical receipts in Latin and Italian

5. ff. 80v-84v, Carlo da Cantiano, Receptae, in Italian

f. 80v Ceroto de mastro carlo da chantiano. Galbano 1 ... f. 84v ... pezze de lino vechie et operate alli sangnio.

1419

1 volume 84 ll. 8vo. 171/2 X 121/2 cm. On vellum, modern vellum binding. A leaf is wanting after f. 74. Ff. 75, 76 slightly defective and repaired.

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Purchased 1932.

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).

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Medieval manuscripts digitisation project.

The first work by the unidentified 'Jacopo' bears some resemblance to the 'Theasurus pauperum' of Petrus Hispanus. This MS. was almost certainly originally bound with two other treatises under that title, MS. No. 377 [Jacopo Florentino] and MS. 490 [Meligariis]. The former is written by the same hand, and is concerned with surgical remedies. Jacopo appears to have been a practising physician, as in several places he states 'Questo provai io'. As regards Bandini, it is just possible in view of the date of this MS.-1419-that he may be the 'Bartolo Bandino' listed by Mazzuchelli in 'Scrittori italiani', Vol. II, 1, p. 224, as a doctor born in Siena, c. 1383, who died in 1469.