The fourth unit includes a collection of medical recipes (c. 103 recipes) in Latin and Old French. Incipit: '[A]ccipe raphanum et scinde per rotulas et po/ne in aceto', second recipe: incipit: 'Pur guttanire prenez limazuus ? sis fendez si me/tez sel de desure'.
The seventh unit includes: Nomenclatura medica (ff. 119r-129v); Incipit: 'Alopicia id est depilatio et dicitur ab allopidibus id est / vulpibus'. The present copy is listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America ...
Treatise relating to natural philosophy and the nature of elements
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The eighth unit includes a treatise relating to natural philosophy and the nature of elements; incipit: 'Quoniam dicuntur elementa superiora in his inferioribus dominari'. The present copy is listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Med...
Gregory the Great, Cura pastoralis, I, 77, 23-26 (fragment)
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The flyleaf at the end is a leaf from a 9th-century English manuscript of Gregory the Great, Cura pastoralis, I, 77, 23-26, see Gneuss 2001 (with incorrect shelfmark) and Gneuss 2003.
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 present ...
Nicolaus Salernitanus (?), Antidotarium and Practica ('Et primo de apoplexia')
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The fifth unit includes two texts: excerpts from Nicolaus Salernitanus (?), Antidotarium (ff. 94r-94v); incipit: 'Aurea Alexandrina ab auro dicta', with a table of contents, incipit: 'aurea l.ii / adrianum l. i / acaristum l. i'. The present copy is listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of ...
Gerardus de Montepessulano (Gerard of Cremona?), Summa de modo medendi
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The first unit includes Gerardus de Montepessulano (Gerard of Cremona?), Summa de modo medendi. Rubric (f. 2r): 'Incipit summa magistri G.', incipit: 'Cum omnis scientia ex fine et utilitate sua sit appetenda maxime ars me/dicinalis est appetenda', explicit (f. 36v): 'et hec de medicinis laxa/tivis ...
Medical texts including recipes and texts relating to urine and uroscopy
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The sixth unit includes: Short treatises relating to medicine including medical recipes (ff. 102r-109r, 109v-110r). Incipit (f. 102r): 'Contemplatio est rationis investigatio', incipit (f. 109r): 'Quoniam nulli vestrum opinor dubium esse homine ceteris animalibus digniorem'. Present copies are liste...
The second unit includes a collection of medical texts: De anathomia (ff. 37r-38v); Rubric 'Incipit anathomia', incipit: '[S]icut asserit Galienus duplex anathomia vivorum'. The present copy is listed in L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The M...
Medical miscellany (imperfect), composed of eight independent units: First unit (ff. 2r-36v) includes: 1. Gerardus de Montepessulano (Gerard of Cremona?), Summa de modo medendi. Second unit (ff. 37r-67v) includes: 2. De anathomia (ff. 37r-38v); 3. Modus medendi (ff. 38v-44v); 4. Copho?, Modus medend...
