Joachim of Fiore, Commentary on Revelation (imperfect, text missing at the beginning)
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Incipit: '...signat. Ut enim proferamus breviter que non brevi coartanda sunt...' Decoration: Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs.
C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), De presagiis temporum (excerpt from the Historia naturalis, book 18, 78-90) (imperfect: text missing at the end)
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Decoration: Space left for the initial 'D' at the beginning of the text (f. 224r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs.
Bernardus Morlanensis, De contemptu mundi; Hymn beginning: Qui sua dat cunctis.
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Contents: ff. 39r-40v: Prologue of the De contemptu mundi. ff. 40v-55v: First book of Bernardus Morlanensis' De contemptu mundi. ff. 55v-70v: Second book of Bernardus Morlanensis' De contemptu mundi. ff. 70v-83v: Third book of Bernardus Morlanensis' De contemptu mundi. On the below margin th...
Contents: ff. 87-157v: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae with interlinear and marginal glosses of the 13th and 14th centuries throughout. f. 157v: a large annotation in a small gothic cursive script of the 14th century related to the Consolation of Philosophy and quoting several other ...
Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum (imperfect)
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A copy of a Latin poem in hexameters describing the medical virtues of herbs written under the pseudonym of Macer (with reference to the Roman poet Aemilius Macer, d. 15 BC). The author is now generally identified with the French physician Odo de Meung-sur-Loire whose name is mentioned in anothe...
The text includes excerpts from Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, Book 16, 25-26. Incipit: 'Pondera medicinalium signorum conati sumus / narrare', explicit: 'Explicit opusculum'. See W. M. Lindsay, Isidori Hispalensis episcopi Etymologiarum sive Originum libri, 2 vols (Oxford, 1911). See also J. ...
The text is a contamination of 'Ars medicinae', for which see R. Laux, 'Ars medicinae. Ein Frühmittelalterliches Kompendium der Medizin', Kyklos, 3 (1930), 417-34. Incipit: 'Incipit hic medicina quid sumere debeamus aut / quid vitare in singulis temporibus anni', explicit: 'sanus sine / ullis med...
The text is contamination of Sapientia artis medicinae, for which see M. Wlaschky, 'Sapientia artis medicinae. Ein frühmittelalterliches Kompendium der Medizin', Kyklos, 1 (1928), 103-13. Rubric 'Pronostica infirmitatum', incipit: 'Frenetica passio ex nimio vino contigit quoque / de aqua frigida'...
Incipit: 'Epistola galieni de urinarum specie quod / greci pronosin deagosin vocant id est intel-/ligentia. ut per speciem urinarum'. The text, which includes and ends with an embedded text relating to diagnosis and prognosis through urine examination, was published from this manuscript in Leisin...