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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![For a note on the authorship of the first work, cf. Thorndike, ‘ History of Magic and Experimental Science 5 , Vol. II, pp. 233, 234. The tract on ‘Aurum potabile’ in this MS. seems to be a variant of that mentioned by Thorndike, op. cit. Vol. IV, pp. 58-60, where it appears to be part of the so- called ‘Lullian Collection’. Purchased 1923. (42821) ALEXIS Pedemontanus. De sublimatione. See Joannes Baptista, Frater. Collection. Vol. Ill, 20. (385) 35. [ALEXIUS Africus.] De septem herbis et septem planetis [In complete]. [Anon.] De urinis: followed by a few medical receipts. 611. 4to. 21^x14 cm. [Late 15th cent.] Modem boards. At least one leaf is wanting after fol. 2, and probably some leaves are wanting after fol. 4. Written in a small semi-current German script 34-38 lines to a page. Fol. I Blasius [sic] affricus discipulus belberis claudeo atte / niensi epilogico studium continuare in fine cum laude / post etiam antiquorum Kani- darum [sic] volumina tibi nota / et aparencio [sic] consodali tibi relatum inveni in duitate troi / ana in monumento reclusum presentem libellum cum ossibus / primi regis Kranidis [sic] qui compendium aureum intitulatur /.../... tractat / enim de [septem herbis] vii planetis ac tributis [sic for ‘attributis’] . . . 2 V (De peonía) ’. . cum sang /uine vespertilionis ad pondus visum mira biliter acuit / [Anon.]. De urinis 3 Sequitur de vrinis. / Vrina alba et spissa significat totius corporis grauedi / nem . . . 4 V Si uero resoluciones apareant [sic] in modum vermium strictis lum / bricositatem significat. 5, 6 Miscellaneous medical receipts. Though in this MS. ascribed to ‘Blasius affricus’, the first work is certainly that mentioned in Thorndike’s ‘History of Magic and Experimental Science’, Vol. II, p. 233 as by Alexius Africus or Flaccus Africanus. The names in the introductory passage are very variously given in the MSS., but the ‘Kanidarum volumina’, are of course, the well-known ‘Kiranides’. Mrs. Singer’s Catalogue of alchemical MSS., Vol. Ill, pp. 766-773 contains a list of other MSS. of this work in English libraries. In this MS. only four of the seven herbs are mentioned—as the end of the work is missing: these are ‘Solsequium’,“Semperviva’, ‘Marubium’ and ‘Peonía’. Purchased 1925. (43753 B ) — De septem herbis et septem planetis. See also Alemanus de Bo hemia [ & others]. De lapide [etc.], 3. (33) ALEYN (Thomas) [ -1500]. For signature [15th cent.] See Receipt-Books, Latin: Before 1500. Collection. (667) 36. [ALFARABI] [ -950]. Liber alchemicus. Synonima arabico- latina. Sedacerius (G.) De vitro.; Quadripartita de lapide philosophico. in if. 4to. 21 x 15 cm. [Middle 15th cent.] Modern vellum binding over wooden boards. Corner of fol. 41 torn away: inner margins wormed, slightly affecting the text.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20086222_vol_1_0037.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
