Petrus de Musanda or Musandinus, Praxis medica; imperfect at the end. Incipit: 'Cum sit stomachus pro nature necessitate / et humani corporis'. For the text, see L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, rev. ed. (London, 1963), pp. 343g (incl...
Quaestiones medicine, including works attributed to the Salernitan physician Urso of Calabria
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Quaestiones medicine, including works attributed to the Salernitan physician Urso of Calabria (d. 1225). Imperfect at the beginning and at the end. Incipit: 'Ortis medicinalis iudicio difficili ad cu/mulum'. The collection includes: 1. ff. 72v-75r: Urso of Calabria, Liber de effectibus qualitat...
Miscellaneous texts on rhetoric, grammar, geometry and divination
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Miscellaneous and composite volume made of 5 small manuscripts written by different scribes (ff. 1r-8v; 9r-16v; 17r-24v; 25r-42v; 43r-58v). Includes: Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium, imperfect (ff. 1r-8v); De scholastica disciplina liber scilicet grammatica, imperfect (ff. 9r-16v);...
Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium, imperfect. Decoration: 1 large initial 'V'(estra) in red surmounted by a crown, at the beginning of the text. Initials in red.
Collection of chemical, alchemical and medical recipes and texts on techniques and technology of various arts
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f. 1v: A recipe for making colours, an extract from the Mappae clavicula. ff. 2r-109v: Theophilus, De diversis artibus. ff. 109v-113v: Heraclius, De coloribus et artibus romanorum. ff. 114r-114v: De temperamento vesice escivi: an extract from a text on book illumination. ff. 114v-115v: De si...