A table of contents in a 14th-century English hand, unfinished: contains only chapters of book 1 and ends with 'capitula secundi libri', although the manuscript does not contain the division in chapters. Both folios also include 16th or 17th century pen trials and notes.
The manuscript includes Jordanus de Nemore, De elementis arismetica artis (ff. 1r-33v). Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing and a partial border in red and blue, at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, and 1 in red wi...
Medical compendium, imperfect. The manuscript includes: Practica Petrocelli Salernitani (ff. 2r-72v); Antidotary (a collection of compound medicines) (ff. 73r -115v); Collection of pharmacopoeial recipes and medical texts, mostly relating to gynaecology (ff. 115v-120v). Decoration: Large in...
Practica Petrocelli Salernitani or Tereoperica (from the title given in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 11219, ff. 42r-103v) is an anonymous therapeutic manual in Latin that was put together from Latin sources (some of which can be traced to Greek originals) in late antiquity or...
The collection is arranged in groups of medicines (ff. 97r-104v, 81r-96v, 73r-80v, ff. 105r-115v; imperfect). It begins imperfectly on f. 97r, incipit: 'purgat colera nigra. id est gingiber scribula .iiii. apio semen scribula .ii. / piper scribula .vi.', explicit (f. 115v): 'Tunc / tilto ex lent...
Collection of pharmacopoeial recipes and medical texts, mostly relating to gynaecology, imperfect at the end
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Incipit: 'Incipit epistola vindiciani Ad pentadion gaio nepote suo. Licet sciam te fili karissime grecis litteris / erudire', explicit: 'et omnia / membra in labore sunt posita sicut subter infertum est'. With table of contents (ff. 116r-116v), incipit: 'i. Ad compaginem membrorum', expl. 'xviij...
The manuscript contains a copy of the medical compendium entitled Theorica Pantegni or Pantechni written by Constantinus Africanus or Constantine the African (circa 1020-1098/9), a monk of African origin at Monte Cassino in Italy. The work is an adaptation and translation into Latin of part of t...
Nicolaus Salernitanus, Antidotarium. The manuscript is a copy of the Antidotary, a collection of pharmacopoeial remedies in alphabetical order written possibly in the mid-13th century by an anonymous doctor traditionally called Nicolaus Salernitanus or Nicholas of Salerno. Nicolaus derived his m...
Illustrated pharmacopeial compilation; partly imperfect. The compilation is a copy of a late-antique and early medieval corpus of pharmacopeial texts. Contents includes: 1. Pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica liber (ff. 1*r-2*r, 1r); 2. Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herba...
