Albericus Casinensis, Liber dictaminum et saluationum
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Decoration: Large foliate initial 'H'(actenus) in colours and gold at the beginning of the text (f. 196r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs.
The title of the first work 'liber galieni de Crisi etc' and the ownership inscription of St. Nicholas Hospital in Cues (f. 1*r). A table of contents, incipit: 'sunt in hoc volume primus liber de crisi', explicit: 'et liber de mala complectionis diversa' (f. 1*v). Also includes a drawing of a...
Pseudo-Apuleius Platonicus, De medicaminibus herbarum liber
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The text belongs to the α branch of the tradition. Rubric (f. 1r): 'Incipit liber / apulei platonici de medicaminibus herbarum / Apuleius Platonicus Madaurensis Civis suis salutem', prologue incipit: '[E]x pluribus / Paucas vires herbarum et curationes / corporis ad fidem veritatis', explicit: '...
The text belongs to the β branch of the tradition. Rubric (f. 7r): 'Nomen herbe vettonica', incipit: 'Omoeos. Cestros. Alii Cyroae. Tusci vocant / Indicem', explicit: 'Cuius virtutes infra scripte sunt', prologue incipit: 'Haec herba vettonica / nascitur in pratis ... hoc incantatis mundus ante s...
Thebit ben Corat, De recta imaginatione spere (in the Latin translation). Decoration: An illuminated initial 'N'(os) in gold and colours at the beginning of the text (f. 122r).
Al-Kindi, De radiis (or Theorica artium magicarum)
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Al-Kindi, De radiis (or Theorica artium magicarum). Includes a 16th-century marking with maniculae, possibly by John Dee (see Barker-Benfield, 2008). Decoration: 1 illuminated initial 'O'(mnes) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text, with a guide letter 'o' (f. 165r).
The Aphorisms of Hippocrates in seven books in Latin and Irish. The Latin version is that of Nicholaus Leonicenus, the Italian physician and humanist (b. 1428, d. 1524), which was first printed in 1524. Each Latin aphorism is followed by an Irish translation.