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Harley MS 4977, ff 73r-115v

Record Id:

041-002189359

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050821

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001754.0x0002c1

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4977, ff 73r-115v

Title:

Antidotary (a collection of compound medicines)

Scope & Content:

The collection is arranged in groups of medicines (ff. 97r-104v, 81r-96v, 73r-80v, ff. 105r-115v; imperfect). It begins imperfectly on f. 97r, incipit: 'purgat colera nigra. id est gingiber scribula .iiii. apio semen scribula .ii. / piper scribula .vi.', explicit (f. 115v): 'Tunc / tilto ex lenteo tenue et usque to apponis et super emplaustrum uteris et sanat'. A possible textual gap also occurs between ff. 104 and 81.

The collection includes:

ff. 106-107v: Pseudo-Galen, De catharticis. Incipit: 'Ad catarticis. Ipocrates auctor ait. mihi autem quod opponentis vel inculpantis de catar/ticis'. For bibliography, see Bibliographie des textes médicaux latins. Antiquité et haut moyen âge, ed. by G. Sabbah, P.-P. Corsetti and K.-D. Fischer, Centre Jean-Palerne, Mémoires, 6 (Saint-Étienne, 1987), p. 83.

f. 111v: De quattuor temporibus omnium causarum. Incipit: 'Medicus intelligi debet / omnium causarum quatuor esse tempora'.

ff. 111v-112v: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Capsula eburnea. Incipit: 'Incipit epistola [D]emocratis. id est intelligentia de has valitudines / infra scriptas'. See K. Sudhoff, 'Die pseudohippokratische Krankheitsprognostik nach deln Auftreten von Hautausschlagen, 'Secreta Hippocratis' oder 'Capsula eburnea' benannt', Sudhoff Archiv, 9 (1916), 79-116.

f. 112v: Prognostica Galieni. Incipit: 'Si infirmum frons rubit. supercilia declinant'. See V. Nutton, 'Prognostica Galieni', Medical History, 14 (1970), 96-100.

f. 112v: Anonymous text on prognostics. Incipit: 'Si sudor in febribus manauerit cum aliquo / odore longam egritudinem significat'.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050821
041-002189359

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4977 : Medical compendium

Harley MS 4977, ff 73r-115v : Antidotary (a collection of compound medicines)

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4977]/040-002050821[0002]/041-002189359

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

42 folios.

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1100

End Date:

1149

Date Range:

1st half of the 12th century

Era:

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