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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![ALEXANDER THE GREAT Modern vellum binding. A leaf is wanting before fol. 23, and the end is missing: a leaf is probably missing after fol. 17. The last leaf is damaged, cut down and mounted. Written in a semi-current hand, 16-17 lines to a page: a few initials in red. A foliation in pencil has been added. 1. ALEMANUS de Bohemia. De lapide ad Bonifacium VIII Fol. 1 Bonifacio Octauo sumo [sz'c]. papa, de la / sancta glexia [sic] romana. Maestro alema / no de boemia se recomanda . . . 16, line 6 ... imposibelle a dirlo con lingua. / deo gratias / Amen. 2. Receiptfor a metallic zvater: in Latin Fol. 17 Recipe de cinapro [? in cypher] 3 V vitriolo roma / no. sal nitro, ana 3v tere et / pone in orinali vitreo . . . 20 v ... et album fiet azurium sicut / illud de alemania. // deo gratias. 21, 22 Medical receipts in Latin. 3. ALEXIUS Africus. De septem herbis: in Italian 23 La prima Erba sie dei sole . . . 26 v [Pistereon] . . . / e dechaza tuti i demunis. deo gratias. 4. [ Anon .]. De virtutibus septem herbarum 27 De virtutibus elintropie. / Prima Erba apud caldeos vocatur yreos / 28 v [De nepita] hanc erbam accipe et commisce cum / The last item is entered in Coi. 509 of Thorndike’s ‘Catalogue of Incipits’. Alemanus is mentioned in his ‘History of Magic and Experimental Science’, Vol. Ill, pp. 53, 139, 140. Purchased 1931. (57463) ALEXANDER the Great [356-323 B.c.]. Receipt-Books, Italian: 16th cent. Collection. Verses on Alexander. (654) See 34. Pseudo-ALEXANDER the Great [356-323 B.c.]. Tractatus septem herbarum. [Anon.] De herba lunaria. [Anon.] De auro potabili. Medical receipts. 22 11. (last 8 bl.). 8vo. 22 x 14J/ cm. [Late I5th cent.] Unbound. The first work is written in an informal semi-current italic hand 26 lines to a page; the remainder in a neat humanistic book-hand 36 lines to a page. A few initials in red. Fol. i 3 V 4 6 6 V 7 V ii n v In christi nomine amen. /// Incipit tractatus, vii. herbarum alexandri [struck through, and superscribed by a I7th cent, hand ‘Alberti’] / magni. / [H]Ic septem herbas et ipsarum, vii. / uirtutes habemus ... ... Et utere eis. // Explicit libellus septem herbarum sep / tem plane tarum deo gratias amen. HErba lunaria facit gambam altam / fere per tria brachia . . . Et ista mi pater charissime habeatis qua / si de huiusmodi herba poteratis habere. Ad guttam. (Receipt in Italian.) In christi nomine /// [A]urum potabile sic fit. R! solis uel lune / in panicellis quantum uis .. . .. . Egritudi / nibus omnibus subuenit Si sciueritis uti. Medical receipts in Latin. This MS. at one time must have formed part of a larger volume, as the leaves are foliated 74-93 by a 17th cent. hand.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20086222_vol_1_0036.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
