List of Thomas Fayreford's medical cases with names of patients including over 100 named people cured by Fayreford. Title 'De curis factis per T. Ffayreforde in diversis locis', incipit: 'In primis in domina de Ponynges que habuit frenesim', explicit: 'item Johannes peterton'. Published in Jones...
Weather prediction from Christmas day (f. 191r); Incipit: 'Die dominica si nativitas /dei/ evenerit / hyems bona et ventosa, estas / sicca et vindemie bone'. Other copies of the text in Cotton MS Tiberius A. iii (ff. 36r-36v) and Cotton MS Cleopatra B. ix (ff. 23r-24r), Egerton MS 2852 (ff. 108v-...
Table of contents of the herbal (see ff. 13r-64v); Thomas Fayreford's autograph. The table lists the ailments from head to toe with the name of the relevant remedial herb. Incipit: 'Pro dolore capitis capitulo absinthium'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Sci...
Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis)
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Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar (Regimen sanitatis). A collection of vernacular medical recipes, followed (f. 184v) by a trilingual list of herbs. Incipit: prologue 'Ceo est la livere ce ky joe Ypocras enveye ay a Sesar qui joe a tey avoy promis', incipit: 'Checun humme verreyment et bestes ...
Miscellaneous notes relating to Thomas Fayreford's medical compendium
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Miscellaneous notes relating to Thomas Fayreford's medical compendium (see ff. 72v-124v); Fayreford's autograph. Incipit: with figure of division (f. 167r) 'Urina fit multa'. The notes include: (a) three excerpts from the Doom of Urine in Middle English, incipit respectively (f. 168v) 'Urine of a...
Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum seu de gemmis, fragment
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Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum seu de gemmis, fragment. Imperfect. Incipit: 'Evax rex Arabum legitur scripsisse neronis / qui post augustum regnavit', breaking at 'De berillo … gestarum refertur amorem'. Other copies of the text are Additional MS 24199 (ff. 56r-61r), Arundel MS 295 (ff. 260...
Pontius de Sancto Egidio, Cure or Modus medendi; Thomas Fayreford's autograph. A medical treatise by the French physician Ponce de Saint Gilles (13th century), for whom see Wickersheimer 1979 and D. Jacquart, Supplément au E. Wickersheimer, Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au moye...
Macer Floridus (Odo de Meung), De viribus herbarum
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Macer Floridus (Odo de Meung), De viribus herbarum. Title 'Macer de viribus herbarum', incipit: 'Herbarum quasdam dicturus carmine vires / herbarum matrem'. The chapter on 'Paeonia' follows 'Aloe' (f. 223r) and is followed (f. 223r) by the last chapter, begining: 'Quisquis naturas urine nostre c...
Rogerius de Barone (Roger de Baron), Rogerina minor, excerpts
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Rogerius de Barone (Roger de Baron, late 13th century), Rogerina minor, excerpts. Text relating to waters. Incipit: 'Humana natura non minus indiget aquis physicalibus quam aliis medicinis'. Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The M...
Note on how to facilitate human conception and embryonic development
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Note on how to facilitate human conception and embryonic development. Title (added later) 'De conceptione et formatione embryi', incipit: 'Omnibus horis quibus connubit homo omni muliere'. Another copy in Harley MS 3383 (f. 77r). Listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medie...