Prayers: Manual of devotion: 17th cent. includes: ff. 28--36 Saint Bridget,; of Sweden: The fifteen prayers of: 17th cent. f. 38 b Charles II of England: Prayer for: 17th cent.
includes: ff. 2-80 b Medicine: Treatises known as the " Books of Galen, Hippocrates, Socrates and Æsculapius": 13th cent.: Fr. and Lat.: Imperf. ff. 81 b-92 Cookery: Collections of receipts in cookery and confectionery: 15th cent.
Owners of Manuscripts: Bernard (Francis), M.D. includes: ff. 2b-98 Medicine: Treatises on surgery: 13th-18th cent.: Imperf. ff. 8 b-10 Clerke family; of Deptford: Notes of the births and deaths of several members: 1627-1637. ff. 99-204 Medicine: Practica medica: 14th-16th cent.: Lat., Engl., G...
Medicine: Commonplace books: 17th cent.: Lat. and Ital. Owners of Manuscripts: Bernard (Francis), M.D. includes: f. 1 b John Duke: Epigram by, on his name: 17th cent.: Lat. verse. ff. 155, 182 Thomas Corbett, of Stanway: Letter to Dr. Duke.: 1611.
Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; Oxiepate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis; Bede, De Temporum Ratione (excerpt)
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Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Medical recipe, imperfect. ff. 4v-6r: Observatio mensium secundum Bedam (Observation of Each Month according to Bede), dietary and health advice for each month, including verses on Egyptian days, followed by a caution against the dies caniculares and the three critical Mo...
Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Pseudo-Galen, De febribus; recipes and a treatise on uroscopy
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Contents: ff. 125r-130v: Extracts from Isidore of Seville (d. 636)'s Etymologiae (Etymologies), book 4, chapters 5-7. ff. 131rv-v: Pseudo-Galen, De febribus (On Fevers). ff. 131v-132r: A text on purgation, beginning: 'Hec est purgatio Ypocratis'. ff. 133r-v: A version of the Sphere of Apul...