Text relating to gout and its treatment; imperfect, incipit: 'Guta vocatur quod ad similitudinem gute ace distillat ad íunturas et cetera .i.e. as ead is guta ann do reir Platiarius, breaking at 'acht fo neart na naduire ocus fo méd an teinnis'. Another copy of the text in Additional MS 15582 (ff...
Lacnunga (i.e. 'remedies' or 'cures') is a collection of medical recipes, magical charms and invocations mainly in Old English, partly in Latin and Old Irish. Rubric 'With heafod wræce' with later marginal note in Latin 'Ad dolorem capitis', incipit: 'Genim hamorwyrt and efenlastan nyðowearde', ...
Precatio Terrae, prayers to the earth goddess and herbs; incipit: 'Dea sancta tellus. Rerum nature / parens que cuncta generas', explicit: 'ut hoc mihi tua maiestas prestet; quod te supplex rogo'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin...
Guilhelmus Anglicus, De urina non visa, extract; Title [added later] 'De urinis non visis Wil. Anglici tract', incipit: 'Nota super Albabucium quod quilis planeta in quilibus signo sortitur aliquod membrum nam / Saturnus in ariete', explicit 'Et ego cum aliis sum in cura huius … sequentia figura...
Petrus de Musanda or Musandinus, Praxis medica; imperfect at the end. Incipit: 'Cum sit stomachus pro nature necessitate / et humani corporis'. For the text, see L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, rev. ed. (London, 1963), pp. 343g (incl...
Collection of medical recommendations, recipes and charms
Scope & Content:
Incipit (f. 64v): 'Incipit liber primus medicinalis ad capitis do-/lorem. Baccas lauri cum oleo roseo'; incipit (f. 65v): 'Medicamentum ad diver-/sas causas oculorum maculas quoque caligines. Jus / feniculi'; rubric (f. 66r): 'Ad caducum', incipit: 'Primum fac benedici aquam / deinde fac benedici...
A chronicle of emperors and popes from the creation of the world to the reign of Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa (b. 1122, d. 1190); preceded by a table of contents, rubric: 'Tabula historiarum sub cronicis et cathalogo omnium regum et pontificum' (ff. 50r-55v); rubric: 'Incipit liber historiarum...
Pseudo-Turpinus, Historia Caroli magni et Rolandi, title: 'Tractatus turpini remensis archiepiscopi de bello hyspanico missa sancti iacobi apostoli a karolo magno imperatore romanorum triumphaliter confecto', incipit: 'Gloriosissimus apostolus christi iacobus'. Decoration: Initials in red. Capi...
Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali with capitula (ff. 1r-2v); text incipit: 'Pastoralis curae me pondera fugere' (ff. 2v-97r); with a note added at the end by a 14/15th-century Italian hand 'Explicit liber pastoralis officii per gloriosum gregorium pp editus' (f. 97r).