Sloane MS 345

Contents:

ff. 1r-6r: Reyner Oesterhusen, Doctor of Deventer, Holland, Compendium medicinale, with a prologue addressed to the Bishop of Utrecht, with the title, 'Compendiu[m] q[ui]dda[m] medici[n]ale Reyneri Oesterhusen dave[n]trie[n]sis utile curatori egrotanti Et volenti servare sanitatem';

f. 7r Johannes Behemensis, 'De institutione medici';

ff. 7r-8r: Three recipes in Latin for dishes from Cologne and a list of synonyms of plant names, with three names translated into Middle Dutch;

ff. 8v-14v: Arnoldus de Villa Nova (b. c.1240, d. 1311) , 'Regimen sanitatis salernitanum' or 'Flos medicine', a collection of didactic verse on health, diet, and medicine put together for oral transmission by doctors at the school of Salerno, Italy, and assembled in written form in the 13th century, sometimes attributed to Johannes de Mediolano, here dated 'ao 1406 16 may' (f. 14v);

ff. 15r-16r: Arnoldus de Villa Nova, 'T[ra]ctat[us] de laudibus virtutib[us] querci', a letter to Richard, Bishop of Canterbury (the rubric has 'Episcopum Cantuariensum', though there was no Archbishop of Canterbury named Richard during Villa Nova's life) about the medicinal properties of the oak tree;

ff. 16v-20r: Arnoldus de Villa Nova: 'Tractatulus de vinis artificiatis';

ff. 20r-21r: Hippocrates: 'De signis mortis', with the heading, 'Incipit t[ra]ctatul[us] de d[er]tis moritutor[um] signis ypocratus';

ff. 22r-v: Two 16th-century recipes in Middle Dutch;

ff. 23r-34v: Treatises in Middle Dutch with a Latin heading, 'De diversis coloribus, picturis et tincturis' (1506) (494-575);

ff. 34v-115v Collectanea medica, a collection of medical texts from the 13th to 16th centuries, as follows:

ff. 35v-37r: Alphabetical glossary of surgical terms in Middle Dutch;

ff. 37r-38v: Medical and technical recipes in Middle Dutch (576-590);

ff. 39r-46v: Collection of technical recipes with the Latin title, 'Incipiunt quedam dicta diuersaris artium et optima exercitia' (591-638);

ff. 47r-52r: Collection of culinary recipes in Middle Dutch with the Latin heading, 'Incipiunt quedam dicta de diuersis confectis et sirupis et alijs materijs' (639-668), including recipes for gin (or brandy) with the heading, 'Gebrande wyn te maken' and the marginal rubric 'aqua vite' (ff. 51r-v);

ff. 52r-65v: Medicinal waters or prescriptions, with the heading, 'Aqua philosophorum tegen dat grote ouel ende eyn tractat van allen medicinen vateren thoe maken’ (669-768) and a table at the end (ff. 65r-v);

ff. 66r-70r: 'Tractatulus de practica medicinae', a collection of extracts from Latin authors including Isidore, Constantinus, Pope Innocent III;

ff. 70r-78v: Treatise on the treatment of wounds in Middle Dutch , with the Latin heading, 'Capitulum vi. et est tractatulus per se qualiter vulnera curari seu tractari debent' and dated at the end' 'Finis j.5.0.6. xv kl nouembris' attributed to the 'young Lanfranc' (of Milan);

ff. 79r-83r: Latin - Middle Dutch botanical glossary;

f. 83v: Latin - Middle Dutch glossary of names of illnesses, with the heading, 'Vocabula morborum';

ff. 83v-85r: Preparation and properties of medicinal waters, in Middle Dutch with the Latin heading, 'De virtutibus aquarum et de earum confectionibus tractatulus' (769-784);

ff. 85r-86r: Recipes mainly for healing wounds, in Middle Dutch with the Latin heading, 'Sequuntur notabilia de Cirurgia' (785-801);

ff. 86r-117r: Collection of medical recipes with the Latin heading, ‘Libellus incipit de egritudibus a capite usque ad pedes’ (802-1102), including a list of herbal remedies (1103-1213) with the rubric, Quomodo una herba sive res in medicinis pro alia mutari possit’ (ff. 100r-102r);

ff. 118r-127v: Johannes de Ketham, 'Chirurgia Parva';

ff. 128r-130r: Johannes de Ketham: 'Liber de matrice mulieris et impugnatione';

ff. 131r-136v: Joannes de Ketham, 'De diversis infirmitatibus et remediis earundem secundum alphabetum';

ff. 138r-141: Questions and answers on natural philosophy in Latin, with the rubric, 'Aliqua problemata in philosophia naturalia';

ff. 141r-v: 'De muliere';

f. 141v: Four recipes in Middle Dutch (1214-1217);

ff. 142r-143v: 'Notabilia diversa' a collection of articles in Latin on the four complexions;

f. 144r: A table of moveable feasts;

ff. 144v-145v: 'Regimen corporis per circulum anni', a medical calendar in Latin.

(numbers in brackets refer to Willy L. Braekman (ed.), Medische en technische Middelnederlandse recepten, an edition of medical manuscripts in Middle Dutch; see bibiography for a link to the online version)

Decoration:

Initials in red, brown or blue, some with decoration in the same colour or red. Numerous small initials, paraphs, line-fillers and rubrics in red.