Collection of short medical works (Miscellanea Medica XXIX)

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Mid 15th Century
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Collection of short medical works (Miscellanea Medica XXIX). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Wellcome Library; GB.

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Collection of short medical worksContents1. ff. 1r-4v Anonymous, fragment of a herbalf. 1r Virtutes herbarum [by a later hand]. Item si quis radicem eufrosine per triduum ieiunus cum lacte papaveris comediat temptacionem per octo dies non habebit ... f. 4v ... Item decocta cum aqua et comesta dolorem pectoris mitigat.2. ff. 4v-8r Anonymous, De complexionibusf. 4v Hic tractandum est de complexionibus hominum in mundo vivencium ... f. 8r ... quia semper vivere se credit et optat.3. ff. 8r-9r Anonymous, De physiognomiaf. 8r Qui habet vertutem acutum nobile est ... f. 9r ... Qui habet corpus inclinatum dicitur esse cupidus et avarus.4. ff. 9r-10v Anonymous, De mensibus et dietisf. 9r Hic narrat primo de mense hic tractandum de duodecim mensibus per quos volvitur annus ... f. 10v ... Item owa dura et caseum durum et assaturas et carnes suynas non est sanum comedere quia fistulitates.

Publication/Creation

Mid 15th Century

Physical description

1 volume
10 folios 8vo. 21 1/2 x 14 cm. Unbound. Written in a neat rounded gothic script, probably in Germany: 33-40 lines to a page.

Biographical note

The water-mark on the paper is possibly Briquet's No. 15216 assigned to Bavaria 1430.

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In Latin.

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Wellcome Library; GB.
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