Pseudo-Dioscorides, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis (71 chapters)
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Rubric 'Incipit liber medicine Dioscoridis ex herbis femininis numero .lxxi. per / singula nomina. Nomen herbe Afrise frigida vocatur', with chapter number in the margin '[cx]lii.', incipit: 'Nascitur in montuosis et lapidosis locis et / arenosis solia', explicit: '[rubric 'Nomen herbe Aperine',...
Incipit: 'Ad ficum cancrum et ad fistulam. Accipe nigras fabas et caprina stercora'. This copy is listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London, 1963; with supplements in 1965 and 19...
(Pseudo-?) Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus, with additions, excerpt
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This copy includes only the first four chapters of the text according to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric 'De cervo', incipit: 'Cornu cervi habet virtutes ad omnes humores excitandos / in colliriis oculorum utuntur', explicit [rubric f. 62 'Ad oscidinem] (f. 62v): 'Caprie sevum ad fissuras l...
1. Phitotherapic compilation (ff. 62v-64v); Rubric 'Incipit de nominibus herbarum', incipit: 'Hec sunt nomina herbarum. Rosa semen eius anetha. floribus et semine utimur. Viola. floribus in confectionibus / foliis in unguentis utimur', explicit: 'Diptamnum similis est sinano, sed non facit folia...
A portable physician's folding almanac based on the 'Kalendarium' of John Somer (d. in or after 1409), Franciscan friar at Bridgwater and astronomer. The manuscript includes: 1. leaf A (f. 10): entitled 'Canon tituli festis / mobilibus et / [.....] sanguinis': Calendar canon (recto), table of m...
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v: a fragment from an unidentified scientific text written in a 13th-century hand. ff. 1r-56v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus. Decoration: Initials in blue or red, some with foliate motifs.
Includes: A folio from an antiphonary (ff. 1*r-2*v); Pseudo-Ptolemy, Iudicia (ff. 1r-15r); Astrological tables (ff. 15v-16r); 5 works of the Arabic author Zahel (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra’ili), translated into Latin: Introductorius ad scienciam iudiciorum astrorum in interrogationibus (ff. 17...
ff. 1*r-2*v are one folio from an antiphonary used as flyleaves. The contents include the introitus, gradual, offertorium and communio of the Christmas Day mass, and an introitus with a gradual of the mass for St Stephen.
Pseudo-Ptolemy, Iudicia (see Juste 2007 for the identification of the text), attributed here to Alkandrinus. Decoration: Initials in blue or brown with red or brown pen-flourishing (f. 1r) and in red (ff. 1v-15r)
