Royal MS 19 A V

LE REGIME DE SANTÉ attributed to Aldobrandinus of Florence or Sienna (cf. 16 F. VIII, art. 1): the first three parts only, without title or author's name. Preface beg. 'Dieu qui par sa grant puissance tout le monde crea'; introduction to pt. i, 'Et pour ce que nous auons'; and pt. i, 'Sachies que lair est vng des quattres elemens '. Pt. iii ends 'de hanter de femmes'. Colophon, 'Chy est la fin de ce liure des proprietes des natures animales vegetables non minerables par maniere dabbreuiacion. Mais des pierres precieuses en cestuy liure laucteur nen fait aulcunne mension ne aussy des choises minerables artificieles ne mecaniques'.

Paper; ff. 110. Folio. 111/4 in. x 81/4 in. Late XV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves (last ¹⁴), with catchwords generally at right angles to the text. Sec. fol. 'natural'. Initials in red and blue. Prefixed is a coloured drawing (f. 1 b) of a king of England [Henry VII ?] enthroned (arms of France and England on the throne); a knight in armour kneels to present a book; his surcoat bears the arms quarterly, 1st and 4th gu., a lion passant guardant arg., 2nd and 3rd arg., seven lozenges az., three, three and one, on a chief gu. an escutcheon arg. charged with a cross az. Above is a scroll with his name 'Jehan Chabot chevalier, seigneur deymalle', and below is the motto' Comme iai dit'. Though here described as a knight, he is possibly the same as' maistre Jehan Chabault, notaire, demourant 'a Valence ou Daulphiné, employed by Louis XI in 1482 as a copyist of a medical work (see L. Delisle, Le Cabinet des MSS., 1868, i, p. 75). On the fore-edge is the title 'Proprietez des natures animales'. Cat. of 1666, f. 14; not in CMA.