Collection of Salernitan medical works (Miscellanea Medica V)

Date:
Early 14th Century
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Collection of Salernitan medical worksContents1. ff. 3r-29r Nicholas Praepositus, Antidotariumf. 3r Incipit antidotarium nicholai. Ego nicholaus a quibusdam rogatus ... f. 29r Zimur. 1. viridi eris.2. f. 29v Receipt for 'Metridatum' in a large square hand3. ff. 30r-38r Nicholas Praepositus, Quid pro quof. 30r Quoniam ea que utilia sunt in curatione egritudinum ... f. 38r ... vel in fronte proximo que est sub ipso. ['Explicit' added by a 15th century hand.].4. ff. 38r-40r Mondino de Luzzi, Practicaf. 38r Cum accidentia que ad se convertunt curam sint duplicia ... f. 40r ... et. 3. s. hemodactulorum. [15th century hand] Explicit practica magistri Mundini.5. f. 40r-43v Miscellaneous receipts: by the same hand as the main text.6. f. 44r Medical receipts by 15th century current hands.7. ff. 44v-48r Anonymous, De medicinis simplicibusf. 44v Menta. calida. in. 2degree(s) [gradu] Apium. calidum in. 3degree(s). siccum. Dyuretica calida. f. 48r ... Granata dulcia et acetosa et mica panis sepe et sepe lota. 8. f. 48r-51v Medical receipts, a few in Italian, by various 14th and 15th century hands (ff. 49v-50r blank)9. ff. 52r-58v Maurus of Salerno, Regulae urinarum, abridgedf. 52r Incipiunt regole mauri de urina. Quoniam de urinarum scientia tractaturi sumus ... f. 58v ... sed totum exhibitum nil valet ut ipse testatur.

Publication/Creation

Early 14th Century

Physical description

1 volume
139 leaves fol. 26 x 18 cm. On vellum, stamped leather binding over wooden boards, damaged and wormed, clasp wanting. Ff. 5, 6, 11, 16, 18 damaged with loss of text: the lower part of fol. 123 cut away. Many leaves rubbed, and stained. Written by severl contemporary gothic hands, probably in Italy. Hand A (folios 1-49) Initials, headings and paragraph marks in red: in double column of 39-43 lines to a column. Hand B (folios 52-59) Ornamental initial on fol. 52 in blue and red, with marginal decoration. Other marginal decorations in blue and red, paragraph marks in alternate blue and red: headings in red. Written in double column 58-74 lines to a column. Hand C, D (folios 61-120) Initials, headings and paragraph marks in red. Written in double column 53 lines to a column. Hand E Initials, headings and paragraph marks in red. Written in double column 45 lines to a column. This section is in slightly shorter format, 24 1/2 x 15 1/2 cm. In the lower margin of foleave 43 are three small pen-drawings of retorts. Foleave 1 'Ad faciem decorandam', and other medical receipts, by a semi-current early 15th century hand. In the lower margin, the word square 'SATOR, AREPO, etc.' Ffolio 1v-2v 'Hec sunt indulgentie sanctorum urbis Rome concesse per multos sanctos pontifices'. By a similar hand.

Biographical note

A vellum fly-leaf pasted down on the lower cover, is a leaf from an unidentified 14th century work on philosophy. No. 6 The end of this work is wanting. There is a complete transcript from the Codex Fritz Paneth, published by Sudhoff in Archiv f?r Geschichte der Mathematik, der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, Vol. 12, 1930, pp. 27-32. 8 Here assigned to Gerardus Bituricensis, following Pansier's "Catalogue des MSS. m?dicaux des Biblioth?ques de France" in Archiv f?r Geschiche der Medizin, II, 20. 9 This is a version of the 'Curae Magistri Ferrarii' first published from Codice N. 1506 of the Biblioteca Angelica in P. Giacosa's Magistri Salernitani nonudm editi 1901, pp. 1-68. A copy in the Laurentian Library was doubtfully ascribed to Maurus Salernitanus in Bandini's Catalogus, Vol. III, Plut. 73, cod. xxxiii.

Language note

In Latin.

Ownership note

An Ex-libris pasted inside the upper cover has been defaced, and only the letters R.A...are legible.

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