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<p>Medical and magical miscellanyContents1. ff. 16r-30v Theobaldus Lonetus, De pestilentiaf. 16r Tractatus de pestilentia Theobaldi Loneti de Aurigneo. Cum ego Theobaldus Loneti de aurigneo bisuntinensis diocesis provincie burgundi essem Bononie civitatis Italie ... f. 30v ... et in multis aliis passionibus probavi sudorem multum prodesse. Finis.2. ff. 30v-57v Plague remedies and other medical receipts in Latin and Italian, including charms against 'Morbus caducus' (ff. 54v-57r).3. ff. 58r-61v Arnold of Villanova, De vinisf. 58r De vini compositi virtutibus. Quoniam vinum album inter cetera alia ... f. 61v cum que iam dicta sunt sufficiant.4. ff. 62r-63v Anonymous, De virtutibus rosmarinif. 62r De virtutibus Rosmarini. Hec sunt virtutes Rosmarini. XXV. numero. 1. Primo recipe flores eius et liga in panno lini ... f. 63v ... et bibat pthysicus/et liberabitur. Explicit.5. ff. 64r-88r Arnold of Villanova, De vinis, continuedf. 64r Ad opilacionem Epatis Splenis et ictericiam. Vinum contra opilacionem ... f. 88r ... et obturetur bene vas vini. et erit muscatellum.6. ff. 88v-96v Theodoric of Cervia, De aqua vitaef. 88v De virtutibus Aque Vite. Virtutes Aque vite sunt ut infra annotatur. In prima distillacione ardet et non cumburrit pannum ... f. 96v Multa quidem et alia utilia. humane nature procurat. per gratiam altissimi domini nostri yhesu christi. amen.7. f. 97r-99r Arnold of Villanova, Epistola de sanguine humanof. 97r Epistola magistri Arnaldi de Villanova ad magistrum Jacobum de Tolleto. De prestancia et virtutibus aque humani sanguinis. Magister Jacobe amice carissime. dudum me rogasti. ut tibi secretum ... f. 99r ... quemadmodum est in distillacionibus ultimis Alkimie. explicit. Nota de sanguine isto humano quod permiscendo ipsum recentem ... Et sic faciam 3o et erit pro terrio elemento. et hoc probabo.8. ff. 99v-100v Anonymous, Prognosticatio de vindemia, etc.f. 99v Pronosticon de vindemia. Vincenti festo si Sol radiat memor est ... f. 100v [De virtute herbe chelydonie] Si autem flet. tunc evadet. Followed by an additional recipe.9. f. 101r-105v Anonymous, Cyranides, extract from Book IIf. 101r Extractus de quodam Libro qui vocatur Liber Ellementorum [sic] de capra foemina. Heges. 1. capra foemina omnibus nota que oraculum dat ... f. 105v [De camelo] ... Epilensiam sanat. quod est admirabile et excellentissimum. A modern edition of the Latin Kiranides (as opposed to the Greek) can be found in L. Delatt's Textes latins et vieux francais relatifs aux Cyranides (Paris, 1942).</p>

1 volume<br/>folios 16-105. 4to. 21 x 14 1/2 cm. Modern vellum binding. The first 15 folios and the end of the last work are wanting. Margins slightly worn and stained. Written mainly by two different semi-current humanistic hands: 21-25 lines to a page.

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