Royal MS 19 B X

LE RÉGIME DE SANTÉ and extracts on birds of prey in French, viz.:-

1. Le Régime de Santé, a medical treatise compiled or translated by Aldobrandinus of Florence (see above, 16 F. VIII, art 1, for a fuller description, and cf. 19 A. V, 20 B. IX). Without author's name. Preface beg. 'Dieu qui par sa grant puissance'; introduction to pt. i, 'Et pour ce que nous auons'; pt. i, 'Sechies que lair est vng des quatre elemens'. Ends 'declaire plus amplement'. Colophon, 'Cy fine ce present liure nomme le regime de sante extrait des liures de souueraine fisique par les souuerains docteurs medecins et philozophes pour entretenir lomme en naturelle prosperite. amen'. f. 2.

2. 'Cy commence vng petit traictie extrait dun liure nomme le tresor, lequel parle de la nature et propriete des oyseaux de proye': an adapted extract from Brunetto Latini's Livre dou Tresor, livre ii, pt. VI ch. cxlvii-cli in Chabaille's ed., Coll. de Documents inédits sur l'hist. de France, sec. série, Paris, 1863. Another copy was perhaps once contained in 19 A. VI (see above). Beg. 'Laigle est vng oyseau le mieulx voyant'. f. 150.

Vellum; ff. 158. 111/2 in. x 71/2 in. Late XV cent. Perhaps from the same Flemish scriptorium as 16 F. VIII, 20 B. IX. Gatherings (beg. f. 2) of 8 leaves (x³, xx⁶, last⁴), lettered, with catchwords (many cut off). Sec. fol. 'elemens'. Illuminated miniature (f. 2.) representing a doctor seated, with book, and three patients or students: outside, a doctor consulting the heavens with another patient. In the border is a shield of arms: sa. a cock arg. beaked, wattled, jelloped and legged or. Other initials flourished in blue and red or gold and black. On the fly-leaves are drawn 'the Lorde Morley's armys' [sc. Morley, Baron Morley, extinct in the male line 1442-3, but the arms were possibly home by Henry Lovel, Baron Morley 1480-1489], arg. a lion rampant sa. crowned, armed and langued or (f. 1 b) and 'the Lorde Morley's best' (f. 157 b), apparently an heraldic ibex with the hind-quarters of a lion, collared, chained, and ringed or. On f. 158 is the 15th-16th cent. note 'Iohannes Meese me ligavit', but the present binding is modem. Gauffered edges. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 1299'; cat. of 1666, f. 14b; not in CMA.