Jacques Despars, Commentary on Avicenna, Canon Medicine
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The volume contains the commentary by Jacques Despars (c. 1380-1458), regent master of medicine at the University of Paris, on the Canon Medicine, Book 3, Fen iv-vi by Ibn Sīnā, Abú 'Ali Al-Husain ibn 'Abd Allah (Avicenna) (d. 1037), in its Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis (Gerard of Cr...
Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
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The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. The manuscript includes: a t...
Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
Scope & Content:
The Elements of Law, a treatise on political theory and the origins of the state, was completed by Thomas Hobbes on 9 May 1640 (see f. 2v), dedicated to William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle, and distributed in several manuscript copies produced by professional scribes. Another copy manuscrip...
Medical miscellany including Macer Floridus and other medical texts including recipes and charms relating to the regimen of health, urine and uroscopy, diagnosis and prognosis; partly imperfect. Contents as follows: 1. Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum (ff. 1r-54r); 2. De pon...
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'...
