Alpetragius (Abu Ishaq al-Bitruji al-Ishbili), De motibus caelorum
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Alpetragius (Abu Ishaq al-Bitruji al-Ishbili), De motibus caelorum, in the Latin translation by Michael Scot (1217). Decoration: 12 astronomical diagrams in ink (ff 6r, 7v, 9r, 9v, 10v, 11r, 12r, 12v, 13r, 13v, 15r, 15v).
Four medical recipes entitled 'For þe ston', incipit: 'Take bryssyd comyn and camamylle mugwyd and malowes stamp togedyr / and sethe'. Partly listed in E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 20...
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...
Collection of four works by Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk of Wearmouth–Jarrow: Bede, De natura rerum (ff. 6r-12r); Bede, De Temporibus (ff. 12v-17v); Bede, Epistola ad Wicthedum (ff. 17v-19v); Bede, De temporum ratione, chapter 29 (ff. 19v-21r) with added with calendrical notes (ff. 21r-21v) and...
Practica (Et primo de apoplexia) and a text on lucky and unlucky days
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The third unit includes two texts: Practica ('Et primo de apoplexia') (ff. 68r-72v); Incipit: 'Quoniam de egritudinibus singularum parcium humani corpori tractaturi sumus. principium a cerebro / quod est dignus'. A longer version of the same text is included on ff. 94v-101v (item 17) of the pres...
(22). St John of Damascus, Ἀστρονομία (-λογία corr. ) ἐκ μέρους. inc. ῾Ο οὐρανὸς λέγει ὁ μέγας Βασίλειος. CCAG IX No.45 pp.17-21. B. Kotter, Die Überlieferung der Pege Gnoseos des hl. Johannes von Damaskos (Studia Patristica et Byzantina 5), Ettal 1959, p.32 (cod. 275).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century