Volume 1
Catalogue of Western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / by S.A.J. Moorat.
- Wellcome Historical Medical Library
- Date:
- 1962-1973
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Catalogue of Western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / by S.A.J. Moorat. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ACTUARIUS ACTUARIUS (Joannes). De urinis: epitome. [In Flemish] See Mulio (B. de). De urinis [etc.]. (572) 2. AD inveniendum signum nativitatis. 6 [7] 11. 4to. 20^ x 14 cm. [c. 1475.] Unbound. The sixth leaf is wanting: margins slightly frayed. Written in a neat rounded gothic hand, 25 lines to a page. Ornamental initials, paragraph marks and headings in red. Fol. i (red) Ad videndum fortunam et infortunam omni homini et vtrum / vnocuique homini bene aut male debeat succedere omnibus diebus / sue vite, videbis in. presenti libro, secundum philosophos astro- nomos sub / scriptum. // Ad inueniendum signum natiuitatis cuiuslibet hominis / Recipe nomen eius . . . 7 V ... dies martis / et saturni mali istis fideliter viuentibus. Tam viris / quam mulieribus. Amen. The 9th, xoth, and beginning of the nth signs are wanting. This MS. may be a copy of the work entered on Col. 21 of Thorndike’s ‘Cata logue of Incipits’. Particulars of acquisition not known. (68449 15 ) 3. ADAM de Bocfeld [Buckfeld]. Commentaries on the ‘Physica’, ‘Parva naturalia‘De generatione et corruptione’, ‘Metaphysica’, ‘De coelo et mundo’, ‘De meteoris’, ‘De plantis’ etc., of Aristotle. 145 ff. folio. 26 x 19 cm. [c. 1300.] On vellum. 15th cent, stamped leather binding over wooden boards, worn and damaged: part of each metal clasp wanting. Margins slightly cropped. Written mainly in two contemporary gothic book-hands, in double column, 59-64 lines to a column: with many contractions. A few initials, paragraph marks, incipits and marginal notes in red. Fol. i 2, col. I 5i v , col. i, line 31 1. Physica. Commentary Blank. [Qjvoniam intelligere et scire. Iste liber totus prima diuisione diuiditur / in duas . . . ... et sic terminatur / liber phisicorum Aristotelis, Explicit sententia eius secundum magistrum adam / anglicum de bichisir’ [sic]. [Added: ‘super librum physicorum corporum’.] The remainder of the column and the whole of col. 2 contains a note by a different and later 15th cent, hand, with a marginal heading ‘Quid nomine entis et essentie intelligit auicenna’. 2. ‘ Dubitatio ’ on a passage of ‘De anima’ [Book III, 7] Fol. 52, col. 1, line 1 Dubitatio: et cum dicit significat [?], etc. declarat. . . A marginal heading in red ‘ Propter quod ponuntur hec / littere a.b.c.d. 53 v , col. 1 ... et sic intelligit hie. (red) Explicit. 3. De sensu et sensato. Commentary Fol. 53 v , col. 2 [Q]Voniam autem / de anima etc. Finito libro de anima in quo determinauit Aristoteles de anima secundum se .... [Heading in red on the first line ‘ Incipit scriptum in libros de sensu et sensato’.] 60, coi. 1, line 10 ... qui immediate sequitur istum, et hoc est / reliquum autem. [Added ‘Explicit scriptum de sensu et sensato’.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20086222_vol_1_0016.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
