includes: f. 1 Jabir Ibn Haiyan, Al-Tarsusi: Ordines secundum: 15th cent. f.1 b-3 Miriam, the Prophetess: Practise of Alchemy: 15th cent.: Lat. and Engl. ff. 3 - 9 Chemistry: Chemical receipts, processes and experiments: 15th-17th centt.: Engl., Germ., Fr., Ital., and Lat. ff. 9 b-16 Aristotle:...
Collection of medical texts, including treatises on anatomy, surgery and gynaecology
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-52v: A treatise on anatomy with a prologue beginning, 'Galyene that was lanterne of ffysiciens and of srgens seyth in the sevententhe book de utilitate p[ar]ticulari.'. ff. 51v-151v: 'The book of operations' (see colophon on f. 151v), a book on surgery and other treatments, p...
includes: ff. 1-2 b John Dastyn: Visio alchymica: 15th-17th centt.: Lat. and Engl. ff. 11-23 John Dastyn: Rosarius philosophorum: 15th-16th centt. ff. 24-39 John Dastyn: Secretum secretorum: 15th cent. ff. 40-48 John Dastyn: Liber philosophiæ ad Neapoleonem Ursinum, S. Hadriani Cardinalem: 15th...
includes: ff. 2-47 b Fiction: Fabulæ: 14th cent. ff. 48-63 b Saints: Vitas Patrum: 13th cent. ff. 64-69 Walter Map, Archdeacon of Oxford: Dissuasiones Valeriani ad Ruffinum ne ducat uxorem: 13th cent. f. 69 Theophrastus: Liber de nuptiis: 13th cent. f. 70 b Stephen Langton, d 1228 Archbishop of...