MEDICA
Vellum, 10.125 x 7.25, ff. 135, double columns of 47-48 lines. 13th cent., in several hands.
Donor, T. C. S.
Old binding, vellum over wooden boards, clasps gone.
From St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. On the flyleaf is:
Medicina translata. Di: XIIII, Gra. II. Liber S. Aug. Cant.
and a list of contents.
On the verso:
Contenta huius libri. Rasis in Almasorio.
Item liber diuisionum Rasis cum aliis de libraria S. Aug. Cant. D. XIIII, Gra. I.
(Ancient Libraries, p. 520, no. 1228).
Collation: 18 (wants 1) 26 38 410 | 58 - 88 96 | 108 - 168 1710.
Contents:
1. Rasis in Almasorio . . . . . . . . . f. 1
Begins imperfectly in cap. LXIV et camphora.
Ends f. 18: implent foramina earum.
2. Verba abubecri filii zacharie arazi. Dixi in hoc . . . . 18
Capitula. Text. Iam quidem peruenimus.
Ends f. 27: usquequo fiat algebra.
Expl. lib. diuisionum translatus a mag. Gerardo Cremonensi de
arabico in latinum in ciuitate tolletana postea latus cremonam
a mag. Petro iam dicti gerardi nepote. in ecclesia S. lucie de
cremona patet multis eum petentibus.
A receipt . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3. Canon quem scripsit alguazir (i. consul) abriuale (prenomen)
zor (nomen) filius abimelech fil. zor imperatori sarrazenorum
ali filio yoseph filii tesiphini de curatione lapidis . . . . 27
Accidentia a quibus
Followed by receipts for pills.
Explanations of Arabic words: Abit-zibra begi . . . . . 28b
4. In a fine small hand.
De phlebotomia . . . . . . . . . . 30
Presentis negotii est breuiter percurrere
-si cito dissoluitur timendum est. 31b blank.
5. Megategni Galieni . . . . . . . . . 32
Quamuis karissime filii iohannes.
Ends f. 61: suauiter percutientur. Expl. Megategni.
6. Inc. periton noxion Nazomaton (peri twn oxewn noshmatwn) . 61
Qui de egrotantium accidentibus
Ends f. 64b: aliquando conueniens est. Expl.
7. Inc. liber Diagnosticon Galieni . . . . . . . . 64b
Rationem quidem puto medicinam esse debere
Ends f. 67b : salubriores septemtrionales quam.
8. Liber epidimiarum . . . . . . . . . . 68
Liber epydimiarum a multis multociens uobis approbatus
-omnes mulieres curantur.
9. Another hand.
Inc. lucidarius bertrandi uel Almagest . . . . . . . 71
Preceded by capitula.
Sicut irreuerberata utriusque luminis acie
Ends 116b: finem optatum tenendo sermonem abscidimus.
10. Liber pronosticorum . . . . . . . . . . 116b
Capitula. Text. Futurorum significaciones ualde decorant
-antequam morbi accidant. Expl. lib. pronost.
11. Inc. liber de signis complexionibus . . . . . . . . 125b
Singulorum membrorum assignatis complexionibus
Ends f. 128: et medium pulsat. Laus tibi sit Christe quoniam
liber explicit iste.
A receipt.
12. Tractatus. Ad sciendum cuius complexionis sit medicamen
compositum . . . . . . . . . . . 128b
-non potest propter infinitatem.
13. In a hand of earlier type.
De coloribus urinarum . . . . . . . . . . 130
In tablular form, ending 132b.
Miscellaneous receipts on 132b, 133b.
A scribble in Hebrew on 135b.
The binding is lined with two pieces of a well-written Civil Law MS. of the 13th cent.
The two pieces of Civil Law MS which line the binding have been identified as fragments from Vacarius, Liber Pauperum, see F. de Zulueta (ed.), The Liber Pauperum of Vacarius, Selden Society, 44 (London, 1927), p. 29.
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