Harley MS 3745, ff 177v-190v

Pseudo-Mesue, Grabadin or Antidotarium electarum confecionum. A popular compendium of compounds traditionally attributed to a Pseudo-Mesue (also called Johannes Mesue the Younger). Rubric (f. 177v): 'Incipit liber iohannis damasceni nafrani filii me/sue calbdei quod est agregatio uel antidotarium elec/tarum confectionum. Incipit liber tercius', incipit: 'Sicut in libris urinarum ex hiis que [continues above] experti sumus / quedam re / memoratione digna', explicit (f. 190v, line 27): 'Antiquus canto melius. Finem libri grabadin', followed by few more lines 'Accipit locus iste quare gratias omnium largitori … appropriatas egritudinibus / Explicit hebenmesue he'.

For the text see also L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London, 1963; with supplements in 1965 and 1968), p. 1493b, its electronic edition (Ann Arbor, MI, 2000), no. 1493B. Printed for the first time in Venice by Clemens Patavinus not before 18 May 1471: for edition details see item 3 above.

Followed by medical recipe for making pills for the lungs (f. 190v); incipit: 'Pillule de agarico mundificant pectus', explicit: 'Fiant pillule et administrentur'. For the text see also L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London, 1963; with supplements in 1965 and 1968), p. 1203k, and its electronic version, its electronic edition (Ann Arbor, MI, 2000), no. 1203K.