Gerard of Cremona (attributed to), Theorica planetarum Gerardi
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The Theorica planetarum Gerardi attributed to Gerard of Cremona. Decoration: An illuminated initial 'C'(irculus) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text, with a one-side bar border surmounted by a hybrid of a monk with animal legs (f. 3r). Includes 6 diagrams (volvelles, some with s...
Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Maecenatem (De regenda sanitate)
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Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistula ad Maecenatem (De regenda sanitate); incipit: 'Ypochrates mecennati suo salutem / Libellum quem tibi roganti promisi om/ni cura adhibita', explicit: 'sanus transiges omne / tempus etatis nec medicis indige/bis'. Other copies are Additional MS 8928 (ff. 25r-26r), Ar...
Pseudo-Bernard, Tractatus sive meditatio Bernardi de interiori homine
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Pseudo-Bernard, Tractatus sive meditatio Bernardi de interiori homine. Rubric: 'Incipit liber beati Bernardi de interiori homine qualiter homo debeat parvenire ad cognitionem dei'; incipit: 'Multi multa sciunt et seipsos nesciunt'.
Yūhannā ibn Sarābiyūn (Serapion the Elder), Breviarium medicinae
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Yūhannā ibn Sarābiyūn (Serapion the Elder), Breviarium medicinae. Latin translation. Copy. The Breviarium medicinae (or Practica Serapionis) is the Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis, i.e. Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114-1187) of the Arabic version of a work known as the Small Compendium and o...
Liber novem iudicum (imperfect). The text on ff. 156-162v was supplied by a diffferent, slightly later hand. Decoration: Initials in blue. Places left for diagrams (ff. 147v-149r, 150v).
Medical recipes (c. 9 recipes). Two recipes (f. 14v), rubric 'Ffor þe gowte', incipit: 'Take ij galons of vryne þt is i monthe held and / sethe it and claryfy it' (two recipes); eight recipes (ff. 14v-15v) one of which for aqua vita, rubric 'Pro collyca passione', incipit: 'Take halfe 1 pownd co...
Two sets of tables of contents: referring to the present volume (f. 1v), and a table of contents relating to Gerardus Bituricensis' commentary on the Viaticum from a different manuscript (ff. 2r-3r). The table of contents on f. 1v was added by an early 16th-century annotator; the tables on ff. ...