Excerpts from Aristotle and commentaries on Aristotle's works
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Excerpts from Aristotle and commentaries on Aristotle's works, beginning with an excerpt from Aristotle, Physica. Decoration: Initials and paraphs in red. Includes 2 diagrams in the margins (ff. 51r, 51v).
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. ...
De modo medendi. Table of contents incipit (f. 5r) : 'De modis medendi. Quot et quibus mo/dis metemur', explicit : 'de alterantibus sive qualitatem et materiam', rubric 'Incipiunt capitula de modo medendi', incipit : 'In medendis corporibus et maxime purgandis va/riis sepe molestamus incommodis'...
Compendium Salerne. Rubric (f. 10v): 'Incipit compendium Saler/nie', incipit: 'Duplici de causa me cogente so/cii delectissimi', explicit. (f. 18v): 'et reliqua ad modum precedentium informantur / explicit compendium', rubric 'explicit compendium', including (ff. 10v-11r) a table of contents. Se...
Summa de opiatis, a treatise on drugs attributed to Petrus Musandinus or Pedro de Musanda (12th century), known as the teacher of Aegidius Corboliensis or Pierre Gilles de Corbeil (1165-1223). Rubric (f. 18v) : 'De opiatis secundum magistrum petrum / demussadat', incipit: 'Omnis medicine opiate ...
De clisteribus suppositoriis syringis et pessariis, attributed to Petrus Musandinus
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De clisteribus suppositoriis syringis et pessariis, a treatise relating to laxatives attributed to Petrus Musandinus. Rubric (f. 22v): 'De clisteribus secundum magistrum / petrum de / mussanda', incipit: 'Clisterium quatuor sunt genera / molificativum mordi/ficativum', explicit (f. 31v) : 'vero ...
Pseudo-Aristotle, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (excerpt from the Secretum Secretorum)
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Pseudo-Aristotle, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (from the Secretum Secretorum); Latin translation by Johannes Hispalensis (John of Seville) or Johannes (David) Toletanus (12th century). Rubric (f. 31v): 'Incipit epistola aristotilis qui / scripsit ad Alexandrum regem', ...
Gerardus Bituricensis, Glossae super Viaticum Constantini
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Gerardus Bituricensis, Glossae super Viaticum Constantini. The commentary by a Parisian doctor known as Gerardus Bituricensis or Gerardus Parisiensis (13th century) of the medical summa, traditionally called Viaticum, put together by Constantine the African (c. 1020-1098/9) on the basis of a sta...