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Add MS 25031

Record Id:

032-002032305

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002032305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000043.0x000134

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 25031

Title:

Miscellaneous tracts in Latin. Mostly medical treatises, but also containing a collection of motets.

Scope & Content:

At the beginning are fly-leaves containing portions of hymns to the Virgin, with music. Description from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music:

ff. 1-4b. Motets, written in England, in long lines with large initials. Imperfect. Square and diamond-shaped notes on a stave of 5 red lines, with the C signature.

1. ‘Felix namque Maria.’ One part. f. 1.

2. ‘De supernis sedibus fortitudo mittitur ad salutem Virginis.’ Three parts, a fourth being probably lost. f. 1b.

3. ‘Prolis eterne genitor.’ One part, f. 2b.

4. ‘Quem non capit fabrica magnifica.’ One part, with a pes. f. 3. On f. 4b is what appears to be a fragment of another part.

5. ‘Psallat mater gracie; gaudet ecclesia.’ One part, with pes. f. 3b

6. Fragments of other motets, f. 4.

After this there are some miscellaneous tracts, in Latin:-

1. Extracts and sentences from the Fathers and Scripture; beginning, "Jeronimus super illud Ecce nos reliquimus omnia," f. 5. Contained in this tract, f. 5 b, is the decalogue in English verse: " pu schald o god louien and heren, pu ne schald nout by hym vals sueren. pu schald pyne hali dey wyten. And pine eldre wrthscipen. pu scald lecherie flen. pu ne sachald nout monsladth beD. pu ne schald no ping stele. Ne uals withtenesse here pu ne schald nout uuilne pine negebures wif. Ne noping pat to him bilith." 2. Mathematical problems, f. 12 b.

3. Zodiacal and lunar tables, and calendar, with directions for their use; and a treatise on the quadrant, beginning, "Cum quadrantem componere volueris," f. 13 b.

4. On "aqua vitae;" beginning, "Aqua vite prima simplex, secunda composita, tertia perfectissima," f. 26.

5. Treatise on fevers; the Latin translation by Constantinus Africanus from the work of Ishák ibn Sulaimán, beginning imperfectly with the end of the second part, f. 28.

6. "Glose Egidij [Corbeiensis] versuum de urinis," f. 68.

Vellum; in different hands of the xiiith cent. On f. 9 is the beading of a letter from Stephen, Archbishop of Arles [1349, 1350] papal chamberlain, to the inhabitants of the city and see of Worcester and in the calendar, f. 25 b, 27 Dec. is the entry, "Obiit Robertus Dymhok, pater Ade de Cyrencestria;" in writing of the xivth cent. The name Mussard, of the xvth cent., appears on f. 5.

Medicine: Tractatus medici: 13th, 14th, 15th centt.

includes:

f. 1 Liturgies LATIN: Hymns to the Virgin,: 13th cent. 14th cent, 15th cent.
f. 5 Theology LATIN: Extracts and sentences from the Fathers and Scripture: 13th cent.
f. 5 Saint Hieronymus: Extracts from: 13th-15th centt.
f. 5 b Commandments, The Ten: Summary of the decalogue, in verse: 13th cent.
f. 9 See of Worcester: Heading of a letter to the Bishop and Chapter, from the Archbishop of Arles: 1349, 1350.
f. 9 Stephen, Archbishop of Arles: Heading of a letter from, to the see of Worcester: circ. 1350.
ff. 13 b-16 b, 20-25 b Almanacs: Astronomical calendar: 13th cent.: Lat.
f. 25 b Robert Dymock: Obit: 14th cent.: Lat.
f. 28 Ishák Ibn Sulaimán al-Isráili, Physician of the Court at Kairwan, in Tunis: Translation of his treatise on Fevers, by Constantinus Africanus: 13th cent.: Lat.
f. 28 Constantinus Africanus, Cassinen sis monachus: Isaaci de febribus versio Latina: 13th cent.: Lat.
ff. 68-88 Ægidius Corbeiensis, alias Corbeil: De urinis, metrice: 13th cent.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002032305

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-002032305

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

13th century-14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Vellum. Octavo.

Custodial History:

Apparently connected [in 1350] with Worcester (see f. 9). Owned in the 15th century by Mussard.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Constantine the African, Monk of Monte Cassino, c 1020-1098,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000436963773,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/305230031
Corbeiensis,, Ægidius, alias Corbeil
Dymock, Robert, subject of an obit, d 14th century
Ishák Ibn Sulaimán al-Isráili, Physician of the Court at Kairwan, in Tunis
Jerome, Saint, c 345-420,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213293,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024
Musard, of Add MS 25031
See of Worcester
Stephen, Archbishop of Arles

Subjects:

Motets