Medical miscellany (Miscellanea Medica XXXI)

Medical miscellany

Contents

1. ff. 1r-30r John Damascene, De medicinis compositis

f. 1r Incipit liber de medicinis compositis a magistro Johanne mesue editus. Scripsimus in libris explanationum mearum ... f. 30r Finem huius gradabin accipit. locus ille quare gratias largitori omnium honorum referimus qui auxiliatur nostris laboribus et statuit lumen in tenebris et in labore quietem etc. J. m. r.

2. f. 30r Medical receipts

ff. 30v-31r blank

3. f. 31v Medical receipts

4. ff. 32r-45v Nicholas Praepositus, Antidotarium

f. 32r Incipit liber particularis editus a magistro N. phisico. Ego nicolaus rogatus a quibusdam ... f. 43v ... renes comfortat et libidinem potenter excitat etc. Et sic finitur. 3 1 facit xx grana frumenti. 3 1 facit 3 iii. 1 facit 3 viii. Exagium facit grana lxxx. Solidus tottidem.

5. ff. 46r-84v Anthonius Guainerius, De egritudinibus propriis mulierum, incomplete

f. 46r [By another hand] Anthonii Guainerii papiensis phisici. Capitulum primum de notificatione matricis et eius significationibus. Matrix est membrum pro conceptione a natura deputatum ... f. 84v Vel facias sic R aristologie longe piperis mirre partes equales et ut patet.

f. 85r Receipt for a balsam by a different and later hand, and two other receipts.

Mid 15th Century

1 volume 84 [85] ff. + 1 l. + 28 [30] bl. ll. 4to. 23 x 16 1/2 cm. Original half stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards: clasp wanting. The last leaf of the third work has been cut out, and 2 of the blank leaves. Margins slightly cropped in binding. Large ornamental capital at the beginning of each work in blue and red with floreated marginal decorations: other initials in alternate blue and red: headings and paragraph marks in red. A foliation in pencil has been added. Written in double column of 47, 48 lines to a column: ff. 64-80r are by a different hand, 43 lines to a column. There are some added marginal receipts by the same hand as that of the main text, in some cases mentioning remedies given by the writer himself. On fol. 5 'In colica dedi frawnhofferin [?] ...'; fol. 18 'Pulvis comitis wolfgangi de otting'; fol. 48 'Pawngartnerin de wasserburge' (for repressed menstruation).

Purchased at Lucerne (Dietrichstein Sale) 22/11/1933, Lot 510.

The MS. is probably of South German origin. The work by Guainerius is a section of his 'Practica', printed at Lyons in 1517.

Armorial historiated book-plate of 'Bibliotheca...domini Ferdinandi Hoffman liberi baronis in Grünpühel et Strechau///domini in Grevenstain et Ianowitz, Supremi haereditarii, Curiae magistri ducatus Styriae et Supremi marscalci Archiducatus Austriae...'. From the Dietrichstein Library.

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).