Practica Petrocelli Salernitani or Tereoperica (from the title given in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 11219, ff. 42r-103v) is an anonymous therapeutic manual in Latin that was put together from Latin sources (some of which can be traced to Greek originals) in late antiquity or...
Medical compendium, imperfect. The manuscript includes: Practica Petrocelli Salernitani (ff. 2r-72v); Antidotary (a collection of compound medicines) (ff. 73r -115v); Collection of pharmacopoeial recipes and medical texts, mostly relating to gynaecology (ff. 115v-120v). Decoration: Large in...
The collection is arranged in groups of medicines (ff. 97r-104v, 81r-96v, 73r-80v, ff. 105r-115v; imperfect). It begins imperfectly on f. 97r, incipit: 'purgat colera nigra. id est gingiber scribula .iiii. apio semen scribula .ii. / piper scribula .vi.', explicit (f. 115v): 'Tunc / tilto ex lent...
Collection of pharmacopoeial recipes and medical texts, mostly relating to gynaecology, imperfect at the end
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Incipit: 'Incipit epistola vindiciani Ad pentadion gaio nepote suo. Licet sciam te fili karissime grecis litteris / erudire', explicit: 'et omnia / membra in labore sunt posita sicut subter infertum est'. With table of contents (ff. 116r-116v), incipit: 'i. Ad compaginem membrorum', expl. 'xviij...
