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...
Speculum phlebotomiae, potionis et medicinae exercendae
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Speculum phlebotomiae, potionis et medicinae exercendae. Title (f. 152v) : 'Incipit speculum flebothomie, pocionis et medicinis exercende secundum ypocratem Rasyn / et Avicenna', incipit: 'Flebothomia est initium sanitatis', explicit (f. 153v): 'signa kalendas'. The text is followed (f. 154r) ...
Astrological diagrams in colours including two volvelles (ff. 155v-156r) and a diagram showing moon phases (f. 157v). Bloodletting-zodiac man (ff. 158v-159r). The illustration combines the features of a bloodletting man with those of a zodiac man. Captions in Middle English written in alternati...
Calendrical tables. The tables include a calendar of English provenance (ff. 164r-169v), tables of solar and lunar eclipses for the years 1409-1440 and 1410-1443 respectively (ff. 170r-170v), a solar cycle, a table of movable feasts (f. 171v), astrological tables (ff. 172r-174v), and a table on ...