Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum
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Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung), De viribus herbarum. 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 apparently the French physician Odo de Meung-sur-Loire ...
De quatuor temporibus anni, a short text on regimen of health through the year. Title, added later (f. 67r): 'De 4 temporibus anni', incipit: 'De intentione nostra breviter in hoc loco determinare / est de quatuor temporibus anni et de qualitate et quantita/te et de proprietate', explicit: 'et p...
Doctrina Henrici libello de imagine mundi. A brief text on humours with the title 'Doctrina Henrici libello de ymagine mundi' added later; incipit: 'Quatuor elementa quatuor quantitatibus temporum convertun/tur. Terra sicca et frigida', explicit (f. 70v): 'semper semen siccum feniculi vel / apjj ...