Somniale Danielis, excerpt. A copy of the medieval dream interpretation handbook. This fragment covers the letters A to C. Incipit: 'Qui interpretationem alicuius sompni inquirit / sic faciat'. Copies of the complete text are Additional MS 15236 (ff. 161v-168v); Cotton MS Tiberius A iii (ff. 2...
Treatise relating to anatomy. Incipit: 'Sicut attestat .G. in Tengi volentes accedere ad phisicam primo studendum est in anathomia / Anathomia est interiorum membrorum divisio'. Followed (f. 187v) by a note in Fayreford's hand. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medi...
Lunary relating to medicine. Title (15th century) 'De duodecim signs', incipit: 'Et quia signa lune medi/cinis necessaria sunt et u/tilia'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London...
Weather prognostications and proverbs. The text include the prognostications 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 1968), p. 914h; its elect...
Thomas Fayreford, Surgical commonplace book; Fayreford's autograph. Rubric 'Incipit Cirurgia secundum Ffayreforde', incipit: 'Medicine for to stanche blod. Ferst have þe name of þe man'. The text includes charms, listed in Olsan 2003 p. 366, and around 37 recipes in Middle English, listed in L. ...
Two dictionaries of botanical synonyms; imperfect. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Alleluia anglice wdesure / Anisum Anice', breaking at 'Lemitritium [sic] agreste et ortolanum'; incipit (f. 2r): 'Artemisia herba diane a gen/tilibus consecrata est', expicit (f. 5v): 'Vervena Verveyne'.
Thomas Fayreford, Medical commonplace book; Thomas Fayreford's autograph. The compendium includes material from Roger de Baron's Practica (Rogerina Magna), such as de Baron's opening lines at the beginning. Rubric 'Ffayreforde [in gold] De capite', incipit: 'Sicut ab antiquis habemus auctoribus ...
Treatise relating to urine and uroscopy. Partly Thomas Fayreford's autograph (ff. 157v-160v). The treatise is attributed here to the French physician Gilles de Corbeil (d. circa 1220/1224). Title 'Hic incipiunt iudicia magistralia egidii super urinas', incipit: 'Urina nigra significat solutionem ...
Treatise relating to urine and uroscopy. Incipit: 'De singularum egritudinum significationibus que per urinas habentes agendum est'. 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;...
Charms against fevers and tooth pain. Rubric 'Pro febribus', inc. 'Petrus stabat ante portas ie/rusalem supervenit dominus'. 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 su...