Harley MS 3140, ff 255r-272v

Nicholaus Salernitanus, Antidotarium. A copy of a collection of remedies in alphabetical order called Antidotary and written possibly in the mid-13th century by an anonymous doctor traditionally called Nicholaus. His material derived from a collective oral tradition which had been put together in Salerno between 1160 and 1200. Prologue incipit (f. 255r): 'Ego Nicholaus rogatus a quibusdam in practica studere / volentibus', explicit: 'leve pri/cium moderata dispensatio'; table of contents incipit: 'Aurea alexandrina', explicit: (f. 255v): 'Zinziberis conditi quomodo fit'; text incipit: 'Aurea alexan-/drina ab alex-/andro peritissi-/mo philosopho', explicit (f. 271r): 'et libidinem potenter / excitat'; followed by an additional paragraph 'Sed quia sufficienter de dispensatione … pon/dera speciei seu herbarum et cetera. Explicit hic liber', and (ff. 271v-272v) by a list of simple drugs, incipit: 'Carpobus {scruple?} iii', explicit: 'elacterium {dram] i'. For further information on the text and its other copies in the British Library see the description of Harley MS 4983. See D. Goltz, Mittelalterliche Pharmazie und Medizin. Dargestellt an Geschichte und Inhalt des Antidotarium Nicolai. Mit einem Nachdruck der Druckfassung von 1471, Veröffentlichungen der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Pharmazie, Neue Folge, 44 (Stuttgart, 1976).