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Medical Texts (St John's College, MS D.24)

Information about this document

  • Physical Location: St John's College Library
  • Classmark: St John's College, MS D.24
  • Subject(s): Medieval medicine
  • Date of Creation: Probably written in the 13th century.
  • Language(s): Latin
  • Physical Description:

    Secundo folio 1r: Uita breuis . Liber iste

  • Extent: Codex: 1 + 353 leaves.
    Leaf height: 255 mm, width: 190 mm.
  • Collation:

    The coincidence of quire divisions with the start and end of the main texts in the manuscript point to it being made of codicological units, which were produced at or around the same time, with identical layouts, and with the intention that they be bound together from the outset. The units are as follows:

    • Quires 1-7
    • Quires 8-18
    • Quires 19-27
    • Quires 28-35

    The quires throughout are of varying size, typically 12, 10 and 8 leaves, arranged as follows:

    110 2-5 12 68 78, 8-910 108 1110 1212 13-15 10 1612 17-1810, 198 2010 218 2210 2312 24-2610 2712-1 (12th leaf cancelled), 28-3310 348 3510

    Catchwords in ink in a medieval hand in the lower inner corner of the last verso of each quire.

  • Material: Parchment (HFFH).
  • Format: Codex
  • Condition: Parchment leaves in good condition, although most are slightly irregular due to natural variation in the parchment, and the leaves being cut right to the edge of the prepared skin.
  • Binding:

    ?Late-13th century binding. Fully bound in undecorated alum-tawed skin over wood boards cut flush with the book-block. Head and tail bands of cream and green ?silk yarn around a thicker core; lower band repaired with blue yarn, stitches visible on the outside of the binding. Four raised bands on spine. Two small printed paper labels fixed to the spine, '24' and 'D' for the present shelfmark. Remains of former fastenings visible on both boards as puncture marks and rust stains. The arrangement of the remains of the former fastenings suggests the volume was initially fastened with a single closure across the centre of the fore-edge, and later with four strap-and-pin fastenings, two across the fore edge, one across the head edge, and one across the tail edge. All substantial remains of the fastenings are gone save for a few anchor pins in the left board, but the pattern of damage for the four-part fastening indicates that the straps were anchored in the left board and the pin plates were fixed to the right board, an arrangement typical of English bindings at this time.

    Two parchment pastedowns pasted over the turn-ins, both now lifting. The left pastedown contains:

    • - The name of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton in ink (in the form 'Tho: C. S.')
    • - A St John's College bookplate
    • - A bookplate recording that this item was part of the Wriothesley-Crashaw donation
    • - A former shelfmark, in ink and struck out, 'A.4.17'
    • - The current shelfmark in ink 'D 24'

    The right pastedown contains a medical recipe.

  • Accompanying Material:

    Loose paper leaf tucked between the left pastedown and f. [i]r, f. [a] with annotations in ink on the recto and verso as follows: Folio [a] recto contains a note in ink in an early modern hand that mentions St John's College, Cambridge. Folio [a] verso contains a partial and partially numbered list of the contents of the volume in ink in an early modern hand as follows:

    • - [unnumbered] Ysaac liber tres .
    • 1 [left blank]
    • 2 De cibo
    • 3 De oleribus

    A small paper scrap (c. 100 mm x 20 mm (w x h)), perhaps used as a bookmark with a note in ink on its recto: "'Galeni M.S Q Agidius de Urinis . M S ."'

  • Script:

    Written in a small and relatively informal northern textualis libraria.

    Annotated extensively by several scribes writing various forms of northern textualis currens. One of the annotators appears to be the same scribe who added directions for the rubricator, see e.g., 285v marginal annotations, instructions in the lower corners, and rubrics.

    Annotations in the hand of John of London (fl. c. 1290-1330). John of London was a major donor of manuscripts to St Augustine's Canterbury, and his annotations and sometimes his name appear in several volumes belonging to Canterbury that are not recorded as part of his original donation. Precise biographical details about John of London have not been been firmly established at the time of the composition of this record (2023), but John seems to have been active at Canterbury c. 1290-1330, and several plausible historical figures have been put forward for identification with his cognomen. John's annotations appear in this volume on ff. [i] verso, 276r, 281v etc.

    CBMLC 13.2, pp. 1237-1238; CBMLC 13.3, pp. 1841-1844

  • Foliation:

    19th/20th-century foliation

    [a] + [loose paper leaf] + [i] + 1-74, 75-186, 187-275, 276-353

    Foliated in pencil in the upper outer corner of the first recto of each quire, starting at the second quire. The digital images of a medieval flyleaf at the start of the volume have been assigned the folio designation [i] by the Curious Cures Project in 2023 during the preparation of this online catalogue record.

  • Layout: Written height: 160-170 mm, width: 100 mm. On and after 3v: ruled in brown ink, frame and lines. Ruled in double-column format, typically 34-36 lines to the column. Pricking often visible along lower and outer edges. Although not strictly ruled for a gloss-format (i.e., wide-ruling for main text, narrow-ruling for gloss) the wide margins in this volume accomodate substantial annotations. Written height: 195 mm, width: 170 mm. The leaves ff. 1r-3r are ruled in crayon, frame and lines. Minimally ruled in single-column format, approximately 60 lines to the page. Informal mise-en-page to accomodate branching diagrams and notes.
  • Decoration:

    Historiated initials depiciting scenes of medical treatment or daily life present at the beginning of some texts in the volume:

    • On f. 23r, an initial M with a physician examining a large flask and a woman holding a basket.
    • On f. 59v, an initial D with a physician examining a large flask.
    • On f. 103r, an initial U with a physician examining a large flask standing next to a woman in bed, and another female figure (?a nurse) in the background.
    • On f. 113r, an initial C depicting a surgical scene with a physician holding a knife and grasping the head of a man holding a bowl.
    • On f. 167r, an initial D with a man and woman embracing eachother.

    All of the historiated initials are enclosed in blue and pink rectangular frames, with details added in white and orange-red, and the figures placed in the counterspaces on a gold ground.


    Decorative initials throughout at the major divisions of some of the texts, most in the style of the initial S on 124v, or with touches of gold. On f. 187r, there is an initial Q with a winged grotesque and foliate interlace.


    Flourished initials at major and minor divisions of the text throughout the volume. The flourished initials are typically red with blue labrynthine flourishing (or the reverse), but the bodies of some of the flourished initials are rendered in the 'puzzle' style in red and blue and accompanied by labrynthine flourshing in red or blue.


    Lombardic capitals in white on blue or pink grounds for the first few words immediately following a major decorative initial.


    Paraph marks in red or blue throughout

  • Additions: Marginal annotations throughout in several late 13th century hands.
  • Provenance:

    Owned by the monastic community at St. Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury, England by c. 1330. The volume has annotations in the hand of John of London (fl. c. 1290-1330), a donor of manuscripts to St Augustine's and possibly also a member of that community.

    Recorded in the St Augustine's Library Catalogue designated as 'BA1' in the CBMLC (see vols. 13.1-3). The history of this St Augustine's Library Catalogue is complex and it only survives in a single later witness, but the original version is believed to have been compiled c. 1375-1420 and to reflect the extant library holdings at the time of its original compilation.

    CBMLC 13.2, BA1.1218a

    Purchased at an unknown time before 1624 by William Crashaw, a lawyer, book collector, and former Johnian. Crashaw's collection numbered around 200 manuscripts and 1000 printed books.

    The manuscripts and printed books owned by William Crashaw were purchased by Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, at an unknown time before Wriothesley's death in 1624. Wriothesley had been a student-contemporary of Crashaw at St John's College and he purchased Crashaw's collection with the intention to present the volumes as a gift to the Library of St John's College. The library was still partly under construction at the time of the purchase resulting in the Wriothesley family storing Crashaw's collection and delivering it piecemeal to the College over a number of years.

    After Henry Wriothesley's death in 1624 and William Crashaw's death in 1626, care of Crashaw's books and manuscripts passed to Wriothesley's son, Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton. Although Crashaw's printed books seem to have passed swiftly to the College, Thomas Wriothesley seems to have taken a particular interest in the manuscripts, adding his name (typically in the form Tho: C. S. for 'Thomas comes southamptoniensis') to most of them, and apparently exhibiting such reluctance to deliver the manuscripts that the College wrote to his mother, Elizabeth Vernon to ask her to encourage her son to hand over the volumes.

  • Acquisition: Given to St John’s College in 1635 by Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton on behalf of William Crashaw and Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. A bookplate recording the Crashaw-Wriothesley donation is present on the left pastedown.
  • Funding: Wellcome
  • Data Source(s): This catalogue entry draws on M. R. James, Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of St John's College, Cambridge (Cambirdge, 1913) and B. C. Barker-Benfield, St Augustine's Abbey vols. I-III, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 13 (2008)
  • Author(s) of the Record: Dr Sarah Gilbert, Project Cataloguer, Curious Cures Project, Cambridge University Library
  • Bibliography:
    James, Montague Rhodes, The ancient libraries of Canterbury and Dover: the catalogues of the libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin's Priory at Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903) https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920097.
    James, M.R., A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of St. John's College, Cambridge (Cambridge: University Press, 1913).

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Medieval list of the contents of the volume (image 7, page [i] recto) 8 line epitaph, perhaps about John Tiptoft, earl of Worcester (image 7, page [i] recto) Branching diagrams in the hand of John of London (image 8, page [i] verso) Branching diagrams on the Aphorismi of Hippocrates and other texts (image 9, page 1r) Liber graduum with prologue (image 14, page 3v)     Prologue to the Liber graduum (image 14, page 3v)     Liber graduum (image 14, page 3v) Giles of Corbeil's De urinis, with his commentary [Latin] (image 29, page 11r)     Commentary on Giles of Corbeil's De urinis (image 29, page 11r)     De urinis (image 29, page 11r) Isagoge ad Artem paruam Galeni (tr. Constantinus Africanus) [Latin] (image 53, page 23r) Unidentified medical extract (image 64, page 28v) Unidentified text, possibly an extract from the Clavis sanationis of Simon of Genoa (image 64, page 28v) Unidentified medical text (image 64, page 28v) Medical verse (image 64, page 28v) Tegni [Latin] (image 65, page 29r) Liber pulsuum (with Prologue) [Latin] (image 95, page 44r) Aphorismata (anon. tr.) [Latin] (image 99, page 46r) Prognostica (tr. Constantinus Africanus or Gerard of Cremona) [Latin] (image 115, page 54r) Liber urinarum [Latin] (image 126, page 59v) Abbreviated version of the Libri de animalibus (tr. Michael Scott) (image 141, page 67r) Branching diagram (image 155, page 74r) Liber urinarum (trans. Constantinus Africanus) (image 157, page 75r) Medical note on ?panacea cures (image 212, page 102v) Aphorismata [with commentary] (image 213, page 103r)     Aphorismata (anon. tr.) [Latin] (image 213, page 103r)     Commentary on Hippocrates, Aphorismata (image 213, page 103r) Viaticum (with the gloss of Petrus Hispanus medicus) (image 233, page 113r)     Viaticum (image 233, page 113r)     Prologue (image 233, page 113r)     Glose et quaestiones super libro Viatici Constantini (image 233, page 113r) De dietis universalibus [Latin] (image 380, page 186v) De dietis particularibus [Latin] (image 476, page 234v) Liber febrium [Latin] (image 559, page 276r) De urinis significantibus mortem (image 695, page 344r) Tractatus de effectibus qualitatum (image 696, page 344v) Tractatus de conferentibus et nocentibus (image 705, page 349r) Signa (image 711, page 352r) Medical recipe (image 715, page inside_right_cover)
  1. Item Metadata

    Information about this document

    • Physical Location: St John's College Library
    • Classmark: St John's College, MS D.24
    • Subject(s): Medieval medicine
    • Date of Creation: Probably written in the 13th century.
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Physical Description:

      Secundo folio 1r: Uita breuis . Liber iste

    • Extent: Codex: 1 + 353 leaves.
      Leaf height: 255 mm, width: 190 mm.
    • Collation:

      The coincidence of quire divisions with the start and end of the main texts in the manuscript point to it being made of codicological units, which were produced at or around the same time, with identical layouts, and with the intention that they be bound together from the outset. The units are as follows:

      • Quires 1-7
      • Quires 8-18
      • Quires 19-27
      • Quires 28-35

      The quires throughout are of varying size, typically 12, 10 and 8 leaves, arranged as follows:

      110 2-5 12 68 78, 8-910 108 1110 1212 13-15 10 1612 17-1810, 198 2010 218 2210 2312 24-2610 2712-1 (12th leaf cancelled), 28-3310 348 3510

      Catchwords in ink in a medieval hand in the lower inner corner of the last verso of each quire.

    • Material: Parchment (HFFH).
    • Format: Codex
    • Condition: Parchment leaves in good condition, although most are slightly irregular due to natural variation in the parchment, and the leaves being cut right to the edge of the prepared skin.
    • Binding:

      ?Late-13th century binding. Fully bound in undecorated alum-tawed skin over wood boards cut flush with the book-block. Head and tail bands of cream and green ?silk yarn around a thicker core; lower band repaired with blue yarn, stitches visible on the outside of the binding. Four raised bands on spine. Two small printed paper labels fixed to the spine, '24' and 'D' for the present shelfmark. Remains of former fastenings visible on both boards as puncture marks and rust stains. The arrangement of the remains of the former fastenings suggests the volume was initially fastened with a single closure across the centre of the fore-edge, and later with four strap-and-pin fastenings, two across the fore edge, one across the head edge, and one across the tail edge. All substantial remains of the fastenings are gone save for a few anchor pins in the left board, but the pattern of damage for the four-part fastening indicates that the straps were anchored in the left board and the pin plates were fixed to the right board, an arrangement typical of English bindings at this time.

      Two parchment pastedowns pasted over the turn-ins, both now lifting. The left pastedown contains:

      • - The name of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton in ink (in the form 'Tho: C. S.')
      • - A St John's College bookplate
      • - A bookplate recording that this item was part of the Wriothesley-Crashaw donation
      • - A former shelfmark, in ink and struck out, 'A.4.17'
      • - The current shelfmark in ink 'D 24'

      The right pastedown contains a medical recipe.

    • Accompanying Material:

      Loose paper leaf tucked between the left pastedown and f. [i]r, f. [a] with annotations in ink on the recto and verso as follows: Folio [a] recto contains a note in ink in an early modern hand that mentions St John's College, Cambridge. Folio [a] verso contains a partial and partially numbered list of the contents of the volume in ink in an early modern hand as follows:

      • - [unnumbered] Ysaac liber tres .
      • 1 [left blank]
      • 2 De cibo
      • 3 De oleribus

      A small paper scrap (c. 100 mm x 20 mm (w x h)), perhaps used as a bookmark with a note in ink on its recto: "'Galeni M.S Q Agidius de Urinis . M S ."'

    • Script:

      Written in a small and relatively informal northern textualis libraria.

      Annotated extensively by several scribes writing various forms of northern textualis currens. One of the annotators appears to be the same scribe who added directions for the rubricator, see e.g., 285v marginal annotations, instructions in the lower corners, and rubrics.

      Annotations in the hand of John of London (fl. c. 1290-1330). John of London was a major donor of manuscripts to St Augustine's Canterbury, and his annotations and sometimes his name appear in several volumes belonging to Canterbury that are not recorded as part of his original donation. Precise biographical details about John of London have not been been firmly established at the time of the composition of this record (2023), but John seems to have been active at Canterbury c. 1290-1330, and several plausible historical figures have been put forward for identification with his cognomen. John's annotations appear in this volume on ff. [i] verso, 276r, 281v etc.

      CBMLC 13.2, pp. 1237-1238; CBMLC 13.3, pp. 1841-1844

    • Foliation:

      19th/20th-century foliation

      [a] + [loose paper leaf] + [i] + 1-74, 75-186, 187-275, 276-353

      Foliated in pencil in the upper outer corner of the first recto of each quire, starting at the second quire. The digital images of a medieval flyleaf at the start of the volume have been assigned the folio designation [i] by the Curious Cures Project in 2023 during the preparation of this online catalogue record.

    • Layout: Written height: 160-170 mm, width: 100 mm. On and after 3v: ruled in brown ink, frame and lines. Ruled in double-column format, typically 34-36 lines to the column. Pricking often visible along lower and outer edges. Although not strictly ruled for a gloss-format (i.e., wide-ruling for main text, narrow-ruling for gloss) the wide margins in this volume accomodate substantial annotations. Written height: 195 mm, width: 170 mm. The leaves ff. 1r-3r are ruled in crayon, frame and lines. Minimally ruled in single-column format, approximately 60 lines to the page. Informal mise-en-page to accomodate branching diagrams and notes.
    • Decoration:

      Historiated initials depiciting scenes of medical treatment or daily life present at the beginning of some texts in the volume:

      • On f. 23r, an initial M with a physician examining a large flask and a woman holding a basket.
      • On f. 59v, an initial D with a physician examining a large flask.
      • On f. 103r, an initial U with a physician examining a large flask standing next to a woman in bed, and another female figure (?a nurse) in the background.
      • On f. 113r, an initial C depicting a surgical scene with a physician holding a knife and grasping the head of a man holding a bowl.
      • On f. 167r, an initial D with a man and woman embracing eachother.

      All of the historiated initials are enclosed in blue and pink rectangular frames, with details added in white and orange-red, and the figures placed in the counterspaces on a gold ground.


      Decorative initials throughout at the major divisions of some of the texts, most in the style of the initial S on 124v, or with touches of gold. On f. 187r, there is an initial Q with a winged grotesque and foliate interlace.


      Flourished initials at major and minor divisions of the text throughout the volume. The flourished initials are typically red with blue labrynthine flourishing (or the reverse), but the bodies of some of the flourished initials are rendered in the 'puzzle' style in red and blue and accompanied by labrynthine flourshing in red or blue.


      Lombardic capitals in white on blue or pink grounds for the first few words immediately following a major decorative initial.


      Paraph marks in red or blue throughout

    • Additions: Marginal annotations throughout in several late 13th century hands.
    • Provenance:

      Owned by the monastic community at St. Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury, England by c. 1330. The volume has annotations in the hand of John of London (fl. c. 1290-1330), a donor of manuscripts to St Augustine's and possibly also a member of that community.

      Recorded in the St Augustine's Library Catalogue designated as 'BA1' in the CBMLC (see vols. 13.1-3). The history of this St Augustine's Library Catalogue is complex and it only survives in a single later witness, but the original version is believed to have been compiled c. 1375-1420 and to reflect the extant library holdings at the time of its original compilation.

      CBMLC 13.2, BA1.1218a

      Purchased at an unknown time before 1624 by William Crashaw, a lawyer, book collector, and former Johnian. Crashaw's collection numbered around 200 manuscripts and 1000 printed books.

      The manuscripts and printed books owned by William Crashaw were purchased by Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, at an unknown time before Wriothesley's death in 1624. Wriothesley had been a student-contemporary of Crashaw at St John's College and he purchased Crashaw's collection with the intention to present the volumes as a gift to the Library of St John's College. The library was still partly under construction at the time of the purchase resulting in the Wriothesley family storing Crashaw's collection and delivering it piecemeal to the College over a number of years.

      After Henry Wriothesley's death in 1624 and William Crashaw's death in 1626, care of Crashaw's books and manuscripts passed to Wriothesley's son, Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton. Although Crashaw's printed books seem to have passed swiftly to the College, Thomas Wriothesley seems to have taken a particular interest in the manuscripts, adding his name (typically in the form Tho: C. S. for 'Thomas comes southamptoniensis') to most of them, and apparently exhibiting such reluctance to deliver the manuscripts that the College wrote to his mother, Elizabeth Vernon to ask her to encourage her son to hand over the volumes.

    • Acquisition: Given to St John’s College in 1635 by Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton on behalf of William Crashaw and Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. A bookplate recording the Crashaw-Wriothesley donation is present on the left pastedown.
    • Funding: Wellcome
    • Data Source(s): This catalogue entry draws on M. R. James, Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of St John's College, Cambridge (Cambirdge, 1913) and B. C. Barker-Benfield, St Augustine's Abbey vols. I-III, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 13 (2008)
    • Author(s) of the Record: Dr Sarah Gilbert, Project Cataloguer, Curious Cures Project, Cambridge University Library
    • Bibliography:
      James, Montague Rhodes, The ancient libraries of Canterbury and Dover: the catalogues of the libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin's Priory at Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903) https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920097.
      James, M.R., A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of St. John's College, Cambridge (Cambridge: University Press, 1913).

    Section shown in images 7 to 7

    • Title: Medieval list of the contents of the volume
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s):

      List of the contents of the volume added in a late-15th century hand, with pressmark and ownership declaration. The pressmark is in a slightly different ink and ?perhaps a different hand to the list of the contents of the volume and the ownership declaration. The list of the contents is as follows:

      • - Uersus Egidii de urinis cum comento Gilberti
      • - Ysagoge Iohannicii ad tegni Galieni
      • - Tegni Galieni
      • - Liber pulsuum philareti
      • - Liber amphorismorum ypocratis
      • - Liber pronosticorum ypocratis
      • - Liber urinarum Theophili
      • - Tractatus de libro animalum
      • - Liber urinarum ysaac
      • - Liber amphorismorum ypocratis
      • - Uiaticus Constantini
      • - Diete uniuersales Ysaac
      • - Diete particulares Ysaac
      • - Liber febrium Ysaac
      • - De urinis significantibus mortem
      • - Tractatus de effecubus(!) qualitatum
      • - Conferencie

      The list concludes "'De librar(!) sancti Augustini Cantuar . Dist 14 . G II'"

      This item can be found on p. 88 of the 15th century catalogue of the St Augustine's library, see CBMLC 13.2 BA1.1218, the list of the contents described in the 15th century library catalogue is almost an exact match for the list of the contents given in this volume, and both omit the Liber graduum of Constantinus Africanus found on ff. 3v-10v

    • Bibliography:
      M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge, 1903), pp. 339 (no. 1218), 520
      CBMLC 13.2 BA1.1218

    Section shown in images 7 to 7

    • Title: 8 line epitaph, perhaps about John Tiptoft, earl of Worcester
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): John Tiptoft, 1st earl of Worcester, died in 1470, and so this epitaph was presumably composed and added to the manuscript after his death. In his lifetime, John Tiptoft was a friend and supporter of the monks at Canterbury: some of his visits to the monks of Christ Church are recorded by the chronicler John Stone, and his obituary is recorded in the Canterbury necrology (London, British Library, MS Arundel 68, f. 45v.; In a late-15th century hand.; Not in H. Walther, Initia carminum.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: [i]r Rex victor mortis animam Wyrchestre Johannis
      Explicit: [i]r Largitor venie semper huic sis(!)sit miseratus
    • Bibliography:
      Printed in full in M. R. James, Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of St John's College, Cambridge

    Section shown in images 8 to 8

    • Title: Branching diagrams in the hand of John of London
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Bibliography:
      CBMLC 13.2, BA1.1218

    Section shown in images 9 to 13

    • Title: Branching diagrams on the Aphorismi of Hippocrates and other texts
    • Language(s): Latin

    Section shown in images 14 to 28

    Section shown in images 14 to 14

    • Title: Prologue to the Liber graduum
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 3v Quoniam disputacionem simplicis medicine
      Explicit: 3v ualeat constat in quarto gradu est

    Section shown in images 14 to 28

    • Title: Liber graduum
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 3v Absinthium calidum est in primo gradu
      Explicit: 10v et mirabiliter [restinguetur]
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 0011J (t0002020000)

    Section shown in images 29 to 52

    Section shown in images 29 to 52

    • Title: Commentary on Giles of Corbeil's De urinis
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): First comment begins: 'Renibus una dicitur quia formaliter'.; Ends in inner margin.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 11r Liber iste liber est noue institucionis
      Explicit: 22v possit eleuare explicit

    Section shown in images 29 to 52

    • Title: De urinis
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Ends in lower margin.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 11r Dicitur urina quoniam sit renibus una
      Explicit: 22v fimbria monstratam quem non est tangere dignus

    Section shown in images 53 to 64

    • Title: Isagoge ad Artem paruam Galeni (tr. Constantinus Africanus) [Latin]
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 23r Medicina dividitur in duas partes
      Explicit: 28v boni maliue discrecione
    • Bibliography:
      TK 858

    Section shown in images 64 to 64

    • Title: Unidentified medical extract
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 28vDe instrumentis
      Incipit: 28v Anum clistere purgat
      Explicit: 28v anargalia uirge
    • Bibliography:
      Printed in Karl Sudhoff, Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin, Bd. 8, H. 5 (Mai 1915), pp. 352-373, esp. p. 373

    Section shown in images 64 to 64

    • Title: Unidentified text, possibly an extract from the Clavis sanationis of Simon of Genoa
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 28vDe mirabolanorum
      Incipit: 28v Mirabolanorum species sunt quibus bonorum
      Explicit: 28v fetida nullum

    Section shown in images 64 to 64

    • Title: Unidentified medical text
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 28v Yris purpureum
      Explicit: 28v fetida nullum
    • Bibliography:
      Printed in Karl Sudhoff, Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin, Bd. 8, H. 5 (Mai 1915), pp. 352-373, esp. p. 360

    Section shown in images 64 to 64

    • Title: Medical verse
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 28v De gradibus
      Incipit: 28v Primus dicitur in quo sensus dominatur
      Explicit: 28v Distractos sensus nescit precedere quartus
    • Bibliography:
      Printed in Karl Sudhoff, Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin, Bd. 8, H. 5 (Mai 1915), pp. 352-373, esp. p. 353

    Section shown in images 65 to 95

    • Title: Tegni [Latin]
    • Author(s): Galen
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 29r Incipit microtegni Galieni de temporibus causis et signis sanis egris et neutris
      Incipit: 29r Tres sunt omnes doctrine
      Explicit: 44r oraciones in eis
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 0858B (t0165770000)

    Section shown in images 95 to 99

    • Title: Liber pulsuum (with Prologue) [Latin]
    • Author(s): Philaretus
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 44r Incipit liber philareti de pulsibus
      Incipit: 44r Intencionem habemus
      Explicit: 46r sufficiant ad presencia
      Final Rubric: 46r Explicit liber philareti de pulsibus

    Section shown in images 99 to 115

    • Title: Aphorismata (anon. tr.) [Latin]
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): There is another copy of this text on ff. 103r-112v.
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 46r Incipit primus liber afforismorum ypocratis
      Incipit: 46r Uita breuis
      Explicit: 54r soluitur dolore

    Section shown in images 115 to 125

    • Title: Prognostica (tr. Constantinus Africanus or Gerard of Cremona) [Latin]
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 54r Incipit liber ypocratis de signis et maxime de signis pronosticis
      Incipit: 54r Omnis qui medicine artis
      Explicit: 59r ordine preceptorum

    Section shown in images 126 to 140

    • Title: Liber urinarum [Latin]
    • Author(s): Theophilus
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 59v De differentiis urinarum negocium multi
      Explicit: 66v in epate generatur
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 0371A (t0073000000)

    Section shown in images 141 to 149

    • Title: Abbreviated version of the Libri de animalibus (tr. Michael Scott)
    • Author(s): Aristotle
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Finishes abruptly in Book 7 at the end of f. 71r. The remaining leaves in the quire (ff. 71r-74v) are blank.
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 67r Incipit tractatus de libro animalium . Diuisio parcium animalium
      Incipit: 67r Quedam partes animalium sunt simplices
      Explicit: 71r debilem [beneficia]
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 1187L (t0227820000)

    Section shown in images 155 to 155

    • Title: Branching diagram

    Section shown in images 157 to 212

    • Title: Liber urinarum (trans. Constantinus Africanus)
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 75r In latinis quidem libris
      Explicit: 102v dolorem renum significat
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 688 (Prologue); eTK 1608 (text)

    Section shown in images 212 to 212

    • Title: Medical note on ?panacea cures
    • Language(s): Latin

    Section shown in images 213 to 232

    • Title: Aphorismata [with commentary]

    Section shown in images 213 to 232

    • Title: Aphorismata (anon. tr.) [Latin]
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): There is another copy of this text on ff. 46r-54r.
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 103r Incipit afforismorum ypocratis
      Incipit: 103r Vita breuis
      Explicit: 112v deglutire non possit mortale

    Section shown in images 213 to 232

    • Title: Commentary on Hippocrates, Aphorismata
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 103r Iste liber dividitur in proemium et tractatum
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 0789D

    Section shown in images 233 to 380

    • Title: Viaticum (with the gloss of Petrus Hispanus medicus)

    Section shown in images 233 to 380

    • Title: Viaticum
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Rubric on f. 113r mostly lost to rubbing.; Ends with a list of capitula for the next item, Isaac Israeli's Dietae uniuersales.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 113r Quoniam quidem ut ait in rethoricis Tullius
      Explicit: 186v Conclusione marine incense cum oleo rosee multum valent
      Explicit: 186v uel sedium
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 0187D

    Section shown in images 233 to 233

    • Title: Prologue
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 113r Constantinus iste affricanus qui tempore quo robertus
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 0257G

    Section shown in images 233 to 380

    • Title: Glose et quaestiones super libro Viatici Constantini
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 1298G

    Section shown in images 380 to 476

    • Title: De dietis universalibus [Latin]
    • Author(s): Isaac Israeli
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 187r Quod imprimis coegit antiquos disputare
      Explicit: 234v mollibus uero post
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 1252L (t0240270000)

    Section shown in images 476 to 558

    • Title: De dietis particularibus [Latin]
    • Author(s): Isaac Israeli
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): This text is designated as 'II' and 'III' in the running medieval headers, and seems to have been treated as part of a unit with the preceding Dietis universalibus, which is designated as 'I' in the medieval running headers.
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 234v Incipit primis libris ysaac de dietis particularibus
      Incipit: 235r Compleuimus in primo libro
      Explicit: 275v febrem euacuari
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 0239E (t0045710000)

    Section shown in images 559 to 693

    • Title: Liber febrium [Latin]
    • Author(s): Isaac Israeli
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Note(s): Presented here in 5 books.; Rubric written in drypoint (?or very faint crayon) in lower margin of f. 276r in a medieval hand.; Final rubric struck out.; Folio 343v blank.
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 276r Quoniam te karissime fili Johannes
      Explicit: 343r et propter vicinitatem cordis
      Final Rubric: 343rExpliciunt febrium ysaac a [C]. translat
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 1304M (t0250400000)

    Section shown in images 695 to 695

    • Title: De urinis significantibus mortem
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 344r De urinis significantibus mortem
      Incipit: 344r In omnibus istis infirmitatibus scilicet ptisica
      Explicit: 344r uentositatem ostendit
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 0700K (t0135510000)

    Section shown in images 696 to 705

    • Title: Tractatus de effectibus qualitatum
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 344v Incipit tractatus de effectibus qualitatum
      Incipit: 344v Quoniam fere omnium questionum solutiones a qualitatum effectibus
      Explicit: 349r dicta sufficiant
      Final Rubric: 349r Explicit tractatus de effectibus qualitatum
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 1275I (t0244890000)

    Section shown in images 705 to 711

    • Title: Tractatus de conferentibus et nocentibus
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Rubric: 349r Incipit tractatus de conferentibus et nocentibus
      Incipit: 349r Conferunt cerebro fetida
      Explicit: 352r nimis ventosum
      Final Rubric: 352r Expliciunt conferencie et nocencie.
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 0246H (t0047510000)

    Section shown in images 711 to 714

    • Title: Signa
    • Language(s): Latin
    • Excerpts:
      Incipit: 352r Finis medicine ita dumtaxat laudabilis
      Explicit: 353v tanto intensior est in
    • Bibliography:
      eTK 0561M (t0109210000)

    Section shown in images 715 to 715

    • Title: Medical recipe
    • Language(s): Latin
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