Royal MS 12 E VII

MEDICAL TREATISES and commonplaces, in Latin and French, written in England, viz.: 1. Tractatus qui dicitur Flos medicine Salernie, compilatus a magistro Iohanne de Meiulano Salernie' (so colophon): the Schola Salernitana, a text of the same class as 12 B. XXIV, art. 1. Contained originally about 1,070 lines, but two leaves (after f. 9) are lost. Beg. 'Anglorum regi scripsit tota scola Salerni'; ends 'Hee super renes pecten pone fitque iuuamen'. f. 3.

2. Additional medical verses, 139 in all. Of these lines 1-87 are a tract on the humours and complexions partly repeating lines contained in art. 1, but mainly distinct, being a collection closely allied to that contained in 12 D. XIII, art. II. It includes very few lines which are not in Renzi's edition of the Schola (Collectio Salernitana, v). From line 88 to the end the verses are on various medical topics.: Many will be found in Renzi, l.c. The article begins 'Natura pingues isti sunt atque iocantes'. f. 20.

3. Pharmaceutical tables, viz.:-(a) Classification of compound medicines, of the same kind as in 12 B. XXV; art. 10. Beg. 'Electuaria calida: Diadragantum'. f. 25; -(b) Quantitates medicinarum et acuminum (cf. 12 B. III, f. 65). f. 26;-(c) Quid pro quo: the same table (perhaps by Nicholaus Praepositus) as in 12 B. III, f. 63, with a few additions. Beg. 'Pro Aristologia rotunda'. f. 26.

4. 'Summa de modo medendi magistri Gereardi': the work called 'Ars medendi Cophonis' (cf. 12 E. V, art. 2). Incomplete, wanting the chapters on syrups and other compound medicines. Ends 'confortatiuis et restauratiuis'. Preceded by a table of chapters. f. 28.

5. 'Quedam pars tractatuum mag. Giraldi physici': the Summa de modo medendi, a compilation on medicines simple and compound, of Geraldus Bituridensis (Géraud du Berry), apparently never printed. The table of chapters prefixed notes omissions in the text which do not exist in it as transcribed; it is, however, imperfect by the mutilation of ff. 66-71. For other copies see Sloane MSS. 148, 420, 3012, and Harley MS. 5228. Beg. 'Cum omnis scientia ex fine et utilitate sua '. f. 39.

6. Commonplace book of medical recipes, &c., chiefly under heads, but partly without arrangement. The chief headings are:-(a) De aquis. ff. 87, 99;-(b) De oleis: two collections. The latter has a good deal in common with 12 D. XII art.7 b. ff. 93, 150 b-(c) 'De unguentis, ypotecariis et entretis', in French. Beg., 'Prenez bone sire cler et nouel'. f. 97b;-(d) De sirupis. two tracts. The latter is the same as 12 D. XII, art. 8. ff. 106, 145;-(e) De medicaminibus secundum ordinem membrorum. ff. 115, 126;-(f) 'Ad separandum 4 elementa de sanguine humano', with other notes: a vellum quire. f. 131;-(g) De clisteribus, suppositoriis, siringa et pessariis; nearly the same as 12 D. XII, latter part of art. 9. f. 142;-(h) De lepra. f. 155. On the margin of f. 92 is a recipe 'secundum mulierem de Chawlay'. Other recipes are scattered throughout the volume, ff. 22 b, 23 b, 24 (in Engl.), 80 b-86 b, &c. Of this article the last leaf (f. 191) is mutilated and the beginning is also imperfect. f. 87.

7. 'Trotula maior' (so the table of contents), but really both the greater and lesser (f. 199 b) collections on gynaecology and cosmetics known by the name of Trotula. The text of the whole agrees roughly with 12 B. XII, art. 9, and Add. MS. 18210, f. 166, but in the latter part no two of the Museum MSS. seem to agree precisely in contents or order. Beg. 'Cum auctor uniuersitatis deus'; ends with a paragraph 'Ad ornatum faciei'. f. 192.

Vellum (ff. 1, 2, 25-27, 131-141) and (octavo) paper; ff. 207.

6 in. x 4¹/₄ in. Early XV cent. Sec. fol. 'Splen capre'. 'Liber Doctoris Herryson vniuersitatis Cantibr[igie]' (15th cent.), f. 1. Contains also the name of John Barnardiston, f. 24. Belonged to John Theyer. Theyer sale-cat. no. 268; CMA. 6645.