A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge / By the Rev. J.J. Smith, M.A., Senior Fellow, and late Librarian.
- Gonville and Caius College. Library
- Date:
- 1849
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge / By the Rev. J.J. Smith, M.A., Senior Fellow, and late Librarian. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![176. A medical collection. (1) Of Phlebotomie, after Master Heric. Wyntonyensis. (2) Explanation of a newe Calendar. . • .13 Dicta iiij. Phor'; ye vn spices of algrym. In verse. (3) Questions in physics and medicine. . . .17 (4) A pure balade of love, and another ' to my purse.1 23 (5) Sundry recipes in Latin. . . . .33 (6) A treatise on Anatomy and Physiology. . . 37 Opening with a ' prologus sec. llgua et materia.' Imperf., spaces left for initial capitals. As Salamon saythe in the fyrste hoke of his Puerbis. Octavo, paper, fF. 114. In different hands. Quotations and head- ings in rubric. 177. (1) Vita Garoli Magni imporis romanor. per Alcwinum; -cum prologo. On p. 1, ' Hie e liber S. Marie de Rading que qui celau'it v'l fraude de eo fec'it anath'a sit.' On fol. 1, this note, probably by W. Moore, printed under the name cEginhartus his Historie of Charles the g1,' at Leipsig sans date in quarto, and at Hanover in folio, with the old German authors, 1619. I have also seen a third impression of this Booke all in totidem syllabis. Nullius momenti hie liber. He was Secretarie or Chancellor to Charlemaign, and weary of the world built a Monasterie at Seligstat, where he became the first Abbat. Tis probable it was the same person under divers names; and he might take upon him the name of Alcwin when he left the world and tooke upon him the monastic Life. Notes in the margin describe subject-matter. (2) Vita Alexandri Macedonis. . . . 31—66 ' Egipti sapientes sati genere divino primi feruntur.' (3) Alexandri Epistola ad Aristotelem, de situ indie. 67—89. ' Semper memor tui etiam inter dubia bellorumq. nostrorum peri- cula karissime preceptor'—. Several medical prescriptions are inserted here. (4) Adbreviatio gestoru Regu francie: ad an. m.dcxxx vii. 90—115. 'Antenor et alii jo'fugi ab excidio Troie Asia pvagata.' Small craarto, vellum. Roman character. Initial capitals plain, green and red, ff.]16. At the foot of p. 1, ' Charissimo amico VTmo. Harrison Ethelbertus Burdet hunc librum 17 die Martii, 1560, D.I)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24749060_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
