MEDICA
Vellum, 9.5 x 6.5, ff. 233 + 4, double columns of 39, 43, etc. lines. 14th cent., in several hands, all foreign.
Donor, T. C. S. 2
fo. nec multum ledens.
On the last page:
Swandall
presbiter habet hunc
pro suo libello
parson fortayn of Seint Stevyn
at Westmynster. 153..
Collation : a2 18 (wants 5 – 8 ?), a quire gone, 28 – 178 186 198 206 (wants 6) | 218 – 268 27? (three) 288 – 308 316 | 32 (one) b2.
On the flyleaf some notes of debts or payments, etc. in Flemish.
Contents :
1. Inc. lilium medicine editum a mag. B(ernardo) de Gorgonio
(Gordonio) . . . . . . f. 1
Interrogatus est (?) a quodam
socrates
-post annum xx lecture nostre.
A. d. mo ccco xio mense
iulii.
Capitula prime partis.
Text. Febris est calor innaturalis (?) . . . 1b
Lib. VII ends f. 204b : libellus de graduatione. Expl. lib. Deo
gr. explectus est liber benedictus deus in secula. bene possum
igitur dicere, hoc opus exegi quod nec iouis ira, etc. – abolere
uetustas. a. d. mo ccco xiio die
martis ante cineres.
2. Inc.
lib. Ioh. de S. amando de conferentibus et nocentibus . 205
Sicut dicit G(alienus) primo
simplicis medicine cao viiio in fine
-et ipsum confortantem. exp(l). lib. etc.
3. f.
233 is in another and better hand : it has a number of short
sections : the first,
de digestiuis cole sinplicibus.
Ends 233b : tenes que dicte (?) sunt supra a magro Ioh. de
palma.
Various receipts are scribbled
in empty spaces.
P.R. Robinson, Catalogue of dated and datable manuscripts c.737-1600 in Cambridge libraries (Cambridge, 1988) vol. I, p. 87, no. 304; vol. II pl. 135 (fol. 61).