Commonplace book, containing extracts and notes from medical treatises

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Commonplace book, containing extracts and notes from medical treatises

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1. ff. 1r-31r Notes and extracts on fevers

ff. 2r-6r Galen, De differentiis febrium; ff. 10r-15r Rhazes, extracts from Liber divisionum, ff. 15v-20r Averroes, extracts from Colliget; ff. 20v-22r Bartholomew the Englishman, extracts from De proprietatibus rerum; f. 23r Constantine the African, extracts from Viaticum; ff. 24r-27r Avicenna, extracts from 1 Fen 4 Canonis; f.. 27v Letter from the Compiler to his 'Eximie doctor uti frater' on a case of tertian fever; f. 28r Avenzoar, extracts from Liber theisir; ff. 28v-31r Haly Abbas. extracts from Pantegni.

2. ff. 32r-35r Baptista de Scamonibus, De oleis balsamini

f. 32r Quoniam verus balsamus est naturalis ... f. 35r ... Et oleum quidem sanis est oleum om fanzinum.

3. f. 36r-v Notes of payments, in Italian, by a different hand, dated 26 November 1526.

f. 37r-v blank

4. ff. 38r-59r Notes on the practice of medicine, pulses, urines, etc.

5. ff. 60r-66r Peter of Salerno, Tabulae de confortantibus, extract

f. 60r Incipit Petrus Salernitanus. Quaedam confortant corpus ... f. 66r ... et in pulvere datis mirabiliter operatur. Finis.

6. ff. 66v-67v Roger of Salerno, Rogerina minor, chapters 1, 2, 3, abbreviated

f. 66v Quoniam medicina dividitur in theoricam et praticam ... 

7. f. 68r-v Notes of payments in Italian, dated 12 November 1526.

ff. 69r-70v blank

8. ff. 71r-78v Averroes, extracts from Colliget on materia medica

f. 71r Hec sunt que Aueroys confirmat ... f. 78v ...contra dolorem capitis qui fit ex humoribus frigidis et grossis. Hec in 5° colliget.

9. ff. 79r-84r Miscellaneous medical extracts and notes.

10. ff. 85r-92v Roger of Salerno, Rogerina minor, continued from f. 67v

f. 85r Quia teste Avicenna 4ta, pii, c. 1 tria sunt instrumenta medicine ... f. 92v Cura istorum predictorum apostematum est.

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