Harley MS 5228, ff 1r-36v

The first unit includes Gerardus de Montepessulano (Gerard of Cremona?), Summa de modo medendi. Rubric (f. 2r): 'Incipit summa magistri G.', incipit: 'Cum omnis scientia ex fine et utilitate sua sit appetenda maxime ars me/dicinalis est appetenda', explicit (f. 36v): 'et hec de medicinis laxa/tivis sufficiant / explicit summa magistri Gerardini de modo medendi'. The text is preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1r-1v), rubric: 'Incipiunt capitula Summe magistri G.', incipit: 'De modo tratandi et ordi/ne cu corpus sit purgandus', explicit 'De tartaro'.

Also includes glosses and a longer commentary on f. 36v.

The present copy is listed in 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. 327k; its electronic version on CD-ROM edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2000), no. 327K. For Gerardus, see E. Wickersheimer, Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au moyen âge. Réimpression de l'édition de 1936, Hautes Études Médiévales et Modernes, 34.1 (Geneva, 1979), I, pp. 204-05.

Decoration:

Puzzle initials with red and blue pen-flourishing, extending into the margin in red and blue (ff. 1r, 2r). Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing.