Decoration: Large puzzle initial 'O'(mnia) in red and blue at the beginning of the text. Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue.
Decoration: Large puzzle initial 'T'(ractatus) in blue and red. Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. 1 circular diagram of the planetary spheres around the Earth (f. 23v).
With 4 tables with commentaries (ff. 76v, 77v, 78v, 79v) and 1 table added by a different 13th-century hand (f. 80v). Decoration: Large puzzle initial 'C'(omputus) in blue and red. Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. 6...
The calendar is of French use, outside Paris: (the inclusion of 'Sancti Albani episcopi' on. f. 82r (March) is a misspelling for 'Albini' - Aubin, bishop of Angers); and includes astronomical/astrological information.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
6 folios + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf at the end.
Tractatus de septem planetas, incipit: 'Gloriosus et sublimis creator omnium rerum...' with some additional text at the beginning (ff. 90r-96r); a text in English, incipit: 'Baby moyses the gode clerk spekes...' (ff. 96r-96v); follwed by an astrological text in Latin on the Zodiac with a table (...
Computistical miscellany including texts relating to medicine
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains: 1. Calendar and astrological tables (ff. 1r-7v); 2. Text relating to bloodletting (ff. 8v-11r); 3. Verse on the four complexions from the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum, verses relating to the zodiac and regimen of health and a Regimen of health according to the mon...
Text relating to bloodletting; Incipit: 'Item nota fleubothomia sic dicitur est vene recta inciso et / sanguinis moderate effusio et multa beneficis prestat'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, rev. edn, The Mediaeval Academy of A...
Verse on the four complexions from the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum, verses relating to the zodiac and regimen of health and a Regimen of health according to the months
Scope & Content:
f. 11r: Verse on the four complexions from the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum; Rubric 'Sanguineus', incipit: 'Largus amans hylaris ridens rubeique coloris', explicit: 'mulieribus aptus'. Another copy is Harley MS 2369, f. 23v. See S. De Renzi, Collectio Salernitana, ossia documenti inediti e trat...
