Compendium of medical and surgical texts (Miscellanea Medica XXIV)

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Compendium of medical and surgical texts

Written by several contemporary hands: 24-42 lines to a page. Rubricated throughout, paragraph marks, foliation and headings in red. Some larger initials in red, that on fol. 1 being an ornamented Q, with marginal decoration, and a male face in black. within the circle. On fol. 187 is a small drawing in red of a cautery: and on fol. 193v a small miniature, showing the administration of a clyster for the cure of fistula in ano, with two human figures, the patient kneeling and nude. This has been pasted in over a drawing in red of a clyster being given to an animal [pig?] of which only the rear half is visible.

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1. ff. 1r-2v Anonymous, On the planets, the four seasons, the four humours

f. 1r Sol. Notandum quando et quo temp[ore] (The remainder of the line is wanting). [Q]ui medicinam d[iscere?] (remainder of line wanting) ... f. 2v ...Et si haec facta fuerint ad pristinam sanitatem perducet egrotum etc.

2. ff. 3r-108r Practica medicinalis anonymi magistri

f. 3r De uiciis Capitis. Et quia caput hominis denominatur principale membrum totius corporis Ideo ab ipso incipiendum est ....[P]Ro dolore capitis per infirmitatem vel per studium accepto... f. 108r ... et vulnerato bis vel ter in die dabis bibere omni die donec sanetur etc.

3. ff. 108r-115r Burgundio de Pisa, De pestilentia

f. 108r Incipit liber de febre epidemiali. Compendium Magistri Johannis de Burgundia de Cura morbi pestilencialis. Quoniam omnia inferiora tam elementa... f. 115r ... sed precibus hoc opus egi ut qui conualuerit pro me erit [sic for 'oret']. Amen. Explicit compendium magistri Johannis de Burgundia de preseruatione et cura morbo pestilentialis amen. Hic finis compendii de morbo pestilenciali etc.

4. ff. 115r-119r Miscellaneous receipts

5. ff. 119r-132v John of Toledo, Dietarum

f. 119r De regimine sanitatis. Scribitur ab ysaak in libro viatici ... f. 132v ...et ibi moretur sicut dictum est superius. Explicit liber de conseruatione sanitatis.

6. ff. 132v-133v Miscellaneous receipts

7. ff. 133r-186v Henri de Mondeville, Antidotarius, imperfect

f. 133r Hic incipit Antidotarius Henrici de Armandauilla. Capitulum erit de quibusdam communibus introductoriis ad tractatum presentem. De repercussivis medicinis et modo repercussiendi ...f. 186v ...et per consequens ex contraria [sic] contrariis [sic] vero [for 'non'] curantur. Residuum istius antroductorii [sic] sequitur [In margin] In fine istius libri immediate post capitulum de secretis mulierum et est de expositione nominum synonomorum obscurorum istius antroductorii.

8. ff. 186v - 221r Excerpts from works of John of Arderne, including the Practica on Fistula in ano and the Liber medicinalium receptorum. On f. 221r a charm against cramp, also from Arderne.

f. 186v [I]uxta fundamentum quandoque nascitur fistula .... 

9. ff. 221r-228r Trota, De curis mulierum, abbreviated

f. 221r Incipit liber trotule de secretis mulierum, vel de curis mulierum compendiosa a nobis fiet tradicio... f. 228r ... et ita dicipitur [sic] sponsus propter sanguinis effusionem.

Monica Green has identified this version as consisting of excerpts, with additional material. See Monica Green, 'A Handlist of Latin and Vernacular Manuscripts of the so-called Trotula texts', Scriptorium 51 (1), 1997, pp 80-104.

10. ff. 228r-242r Henri de Mondeville, Antidotarius, continued

f. 228r Capitulum nonum de exposicione nominum synonomorum obscurorum predicti Antroductorii [sic] ... f. 242r ... de Synonomis ignotorum [sic] aut obscurarum medicinarum huius antidotarii suffissiunt [sic] hec nunc dicta etc.

11. ff. 242r-244v Miscellaneous receipts

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