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Harley MS 4977, ff 115v-120v

Record Id:

041-002189360

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050821

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001754.0x0002c2

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4977, ff 115v-120v

Title:

Collection of pharmacopoeial recipes and medical texts, mostly relating to gynaecology, imperfect at the end

Scope & Content:

Incipit: 'Incipit epistola vindiciani Ad pentadion gaio nepote suo. Licet sciam te fili karissime grecis litteris / erudire', explicit: 'et omnia / membra in labore sunt posita sicut subter infertum est'. With table of contents (ff. 116r-116v), incipit: 'i. Ad compaginem membrorum', expl. 'xviij. Ad glicia stomatus'. One other table of contents at the end (f. 120v; imperfect) relating to a gynecological text.

The collection includes:

ff. 115v-116r. Epistula Vindiciani ad Pentadion. Incipit: 'Incipit epistola vindiciani ad pentadion gaio nepote suo. Licet sciam te fili karissime grecis litteris / erudire', explicit: 'Cum hec facta fuerint. tunc / peritus medicus ad propriam sanitatem perducit egrotum'. For the text see V. Rose, Theodori Prisciani Euporiston libri III (Leipzig, 1894), pp. 484-92. For further 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), pp. 154-55; M. Schoch, 'Die 'Epistula Vindiciani ad Pentadium nepotem und ihre Einordnung in die Geschichte der Humoraltheorien' (unpublished doctoral disseratation, Würzburg 1996); K.-D. Fischer, Bibliographie des textes médicaux latins. Antiquité et haut moyen âge - Premier supplément 1986-1999, Centre Jean-Palerne, Mémoires, 19 (Saint-Étienne, 2000), pp. 52-53.

ff. 116v-117v: Vindicianus, De Genecia, excerpts. Incipit: 'Ad compaginem membrorum. Id est actio iusti medici genechie cum in alexandria fuit certatus cum auctori/bus maioris philosophorum', explicit: 'exinde facit mutatio / dentium et frigidum et calidum ferre non possunt'. The text includes includes an excerpt from Pseudo-Soranus, Isagoge, incipit (f. 117r): 'Nam cum conceperit natura viri seminis'. For the text and its bibliography, see V. Rose 1894 (above), pp. 426-66; 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), pp. 155-57.

ff. 117v-118r: Soranus (?), Ad mulieres postquam peperint. Incipit: 'Ad mulieres postquam peperint qualem habeant diligentiam. Oportet initium spungies maiores / aqua tepida intincta', explicit: 'et unas usque in annos III tantum'. See ; M. H. Green, Women's Healthcare in the Medieval West. Texts and Contexts, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot - Burlington, Vermont, 2000), p. 32.

f. 118r: A note on weights and measures relating to medicine. Incipit: 'Ad ponderas et mensuras medicinales. Metrus id est mensura media. Cadus id est amphora .i.', explicit: 'Cicer grecus id est pis latinus .i.'. See K.-D. Fischer, 'The Isagoge of Pseudo-Soranus: An Analysis of the Contents of a Medieval Introduction to the Art of Medicine', Medizinhistorisches Journal, 35 (2000), 3-30 (p. 27).

ff. 118r-118v. Notes relating to seasons and their properties. Incipit (f. 118r): 'Ad dies egiptiacis qui maledicti sunt in anno circulo. Janu/ario intrante die .i. exeunte die .vii'; incipit (f. 118v): 'Ad tempus vel tempora. id est unus annus apud latinos'.

f. 118v: Herbal recipes based on simples. Incipit: 'Ad capladuria. id est furunculus maior sanando et dolore tollendo'.

ff. 118v-120r. Medical recipes. Incipit: 'Oppio sic facis. Mense iulis papaueris folia uiridia teris'.

ff. 120r-120v. Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epistola Hippocratis de virginibus. Incipit: 'Incipit epistola [D]Emogratis. Que ex grecis auctoribus sin latinum certatus est. De tempora / mulierum bonum est in virginitate sua', explicit: 'et omnia / membra in labore sunt posita sicut subter infertum est'. See Green 2000 (above), Appendix, pp. 14-15. Edited from this manuscript. by Fischer 2004.

f. 120v. De diversis causis mulierum, table of contents. Imperfect. Incipit: '.i. Hoc. Ad omnia querela mulieris', explicit: 'xLij. Si inguinem dolor periculosi sunt'. See Green 2000 (above), Appendix, p. 11.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050821
041-002189360

Is part of:

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

Harley MS 4977, ff 115v-120v : Collection of pharmacopoeial recipes and medical texts, mostly relating to gynaecology, imperfect at the end

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4977]/040-002050821[0003]/041-002189360

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

6 folios.

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1100

End Date:

1149

Date Range:

1st half of the 12th century

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