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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![Written in a good semi-current French gothic hand, 30 lines to a page. Initials in gold and colours : paragraph marks in alternate blue and red, headings in red. On the first leaf is a large illuminated letter L in gold and colours containing a miniature—slightly rubbed—of a Physician in a red gown seated before a lectern, lecturing to a number of students: on fol. 2 1 * * * V a similar letter D depicting the Almighty, seated and holding an orb in gold. Both these letters are decorated with ornamental borders of leaves and grotesque figures in gold and colours. Fol. 1 LE premier chapitre de lair. Le se / cond chapitre du mengier. 2 (End of table of contents) ... et de cognoistre lomme qui est luxiureux. 2 V Dieu qui par sa grant puissance tout le / monde establi. . . (last line) ... et puet encor les maladies remouoir. Car / (End of chapter ‘Du mengier’) Une viande sur lautre deuant que la premiere soit cuite . . . (red) le tiers du boire. / Puis que nous vous auons dit du mengier . . . ... et quil se délité en oir parler / de femmes. / Pour messire hugues de Salue / Escript a Paris Lan de grace mil CCC iiii xx et / dix le lundi xx e Jour de mars par la main de / Jehan Quatredens escoulier a paris. Medical receipts in French, one in Latin, by the same hand. At the end ‘Laus tibi christe quia liber explicit iste’. On the verso of the last leaf, perhaps by the same hand, a note ‘ Les vertuz des grains de geneure cueilliz entre les deux festes ’, ending ‘ Geneuri grana sunt omni tempore sana’. Aldobrandino’s work was first printed at Lyons c. 1480. (C/. Landouzy & Pépin. ‘Le régime du corps’. 1911). Purchased at Sotheby’s 4/12/1905, Lot 257. (16469) 3 line 11 89 v , line 15 89 v , line 2i-90 v 32. ALDOBRANDINO da Siena [ -1287] [& others]. Le régime du corps: in Provençal. Pseudo-HlPPOCRATES. Epistola ad Cesarem [etc.]. Evax. Lapidaire. 12411. 8vo. i6ÿxncm. [Middle 14th cent.] On vellum. 19th cent. French calf gilt binding. Last leaf slightly defective: margins cropped in re-binding. Ff. 113-116 have been bound in wrong order. Written in a rounded gothic book-hand, 30 lines to a page. Headings and paragraph marks in red, a few in blue. Large ornamental initial A on the first leaf in blue and red, with marginal decoration surrounding the text. Other initials in red and blue, blue and red, red and purple with marginal decorations. A pencilled foliation has been added. Fol. I i v , line 9 8o v , line 17 1. Le régime du corps AV [‘au’ struck through] commencement de cest liure li dirons pour / quoi il fu fait, et la ou il fu pris. Il fu fait / a la requeste la comtesse de prouuence qui / fu mere la Rogne de france la Rogne dengle / terre la Rogne dalemaigne et la comtesse daniou. Et la fist maistre alebran de florence lan de lincar / nacion ihesu crist mil. cc. et lvi. . . DIex qui par sa grant puissance le monde establi . . . . . . li enseignemens qui sont plus a droit sont des yex. et du visage. / Explicit. li liures de phisique en Roumans.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20086222_vol_1_0034.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
