Isaac Judeus, De febribus. The Latin translation by Constantinus Africanus (c. 1020-1098/9) of a treatise on fevers (Kitāb al-Hummayāt) composed in Arabic by Abū Ya'qūb Ishāq ibn Sulaymān al-Isrā’īlī (fl. c. 855-932), known in Europe as Isaac Judeus or Isaac Israeli. The text is here preceded by...
The medical summa, traditionally called Viaticum, assembled by Constantine the African (c. 1020-1098/9). The Viaticum is the Latin adaptation of a standard medical manual, entitled Kitāb Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-hādir (Provision for the Traveller and the Nourishment of the Settled), composed by ...
Nicholaus Salernitanus, Antidotarium. A copy of a collection of remedies in alphabetical order called Antidotary and written possibly in the mid-13th century by an anonymous doctor traditionally called Nicholaus. His material derived from a collective oral tradition which had been put together i...
Aegidius de Corbeil, De urinis. The verse summary by Giles of Corbeil (d. c. 1220/1224) of Theophilus's treatise on urines compiled to help students in the memorisation of the diagnostic tools of medical practice. Incipit: 'Dicitur urina quoniam fit renibus una', explicit: 'Fimbria monstretur qu...
Aegidius de Corbeil, Pulses. The poetic summary by Giles of Corbeil (d. c. 1220/1224) of Philaretus's treatise on pulses compiled to help university students in the memorisation of diagnostic tools of medical practice. Incipit: 'Ingenii vires modicis conatibus inpar', explicit: 'Iam sterilem cul...
The manuscript is composed of two independent parts (ff. 2r-94v and 95r-126v). The first part is a miscellany of treatises relating to computus and music, including: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus (ff. 2r-55v); Guido of Arezzo, De Constitutionibus in Musica (ff. 55v-56r); Guido of Arezzo, Pr...