Medical and culinary recipes (c. 30 recipes). Rubric 'To clarifie suger', incipit: 'Take a quarte of fayre water and put it in a panne / and þerto þe whyte of iij egges', explicit 'as in mystes / and glommyng weders / Explicit'. Two recipes (ff. 157r-158r) published in Henslow 1899, pp. 120-22...
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 ...
Two medical recipes for mothers (f. 74r). Title 'A medecyn for the moder', incipit: 'Take grene ferne that growing / in the feylde'; title 'Anodyr for the same', incipit: 'Take the levys of / an elme'. A 17th-century hand produced another copy of the recipes on the facing page (f. 73v). Also i...
Giles of Rome (Aegidius Romanus), De regimine principum
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Giles of Rome (Aegidius Romanus), De regimine principum. Decoration: Historiated initial 'E'(ex) of Giles of Rome with a partial border, at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). 9 smaller decorated foliate initials, in colours and gold (ff. 4v, 6r, 10r, 14v, 18v, 20v, 22v, 23v, 25r).
Johannitius, Isagoge ad Tegni Galeni, excerpt, in the Latin translation by Marcus of Toledo. Imperfect.
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Incipit: 'Medicina dividitur in duas partes id est in theoricam et practicam. Quarum theorica / dividitur in tria .id est. in contemplationem naturalium rerum et non naturalium / quae earum que sunt extra naturam. Ex quibus egritudinem scientia procedit cum ipse naturales res extra cursum / suum ...