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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![Outside the first leaf is a title in alternate red and black; ‘Indictiones / ffesta mobilia / Tabula planetarum / Homo venarum / Tabula lune’. The folds show that this MS.—a folio sheet 25J,- x 18 cm. was originally intended to be kept in a rectangular container, first doubled over forming two 4to. leaves, and then folded twice forming an oblong of about 13 x 4I cm. The title as given above would then appear uppermost. This very rare type of MS., seen also in Nos. 40-41, is the subject of an article by C. H. Talbot, ‘A Mediaeval Physician’s Vade Mecum’, Journal of the History of Medicine, 1961, Vol. XVI, pp. 213-233. Particulars of acquisition not known, but probably purchased c. 1900. (6692) 40. — Calendarium. Indictiones. Festa mobilia. Tabula planetarum. Homo venarum. Tabula lunae. Eclipses solis. Eclipses lunae. Homo signorum. Canon Kalendarii. 7 11. folio. 27 \ x 17 cm. [folded to 14 x 5 cm.] 1463. On vellum, sewn in original limp vellum cover. Written in red and black, with initials in blue. With two carefully executed drawings in red and black of the ‘Vein-man’ and of the ‘Astrological man’. The dates of the eclipses are from 1461-1481, and the outside of the cover is dated 1463 by an early hand. There are also small drawings of the eclipses in red and blue. The original folio-size sheets have been folded double, and then in three, and the vellum cover added to fit the smaller format. At the top of the cover is a vellum tag so that the MS. could be suspended by a cord from a girdle. Purchased at Sotheby’s 31/7/1923, Lot 5o8 A . (42731) 41. — Calendar in Latin and English: with notes for diet, bleeding, etc. Astronomical and astrological tables, etc. Lists of English castles and Bishoprics. Tables of weights and measures, etc. 16 11. 4to. 23 x 15^ cm. [c 1464.] On vellum, modem calf binding. Fol. 1 recto and i6 v have had the writing blacked out in ink, as also a passage on fol 6 V . Margins cropped. The tables are in red and black with headings and paragraph marks in red, and are written in double column, 30 lines to a column: the Calendar is in red, blue and black with decorated initials in blue and red. On fol. 4 is an outline drawing of the Bishops in Council and on fol. 2, two similar drawings with ‘scenes at a money-changer’s office’. The costumes seem to be those of the reign of Edward IV. [1461-1483]. Fol. 1 i v 2, 2 V , col. 1, line 18 4, col. 1, line 7 col. 2, line 15 5, col. 1, line 8 line 10 6 V , col. 1 7-12 13 I 3 V 14 I 4 V 15 i6(Ends) i6 v An inscription, possibly an astrological note, blacked out: in English. Table of the months for ‘Blode letyng, Medesyn, Bathyng ’. List of castles in England, arranged by counties. Nomina Episcoporum per totum regnum Anglie. Hie incipit Summa de rebus venalibus: in Norman- French. Explicit Summa de Rebus / venalibus. Hie incipit modus ad mesurandam / terram, etc. Explicit modus mesurandi. Calendar, with notes in English at the bottom of each page for diet, times for bleeding, etc. Table for finding Easter from 1463 to 1519. Table of months, and Signs of the Zodiac. Table: Etas lune. Gradus solis. Tabula ad sciendum quis planeta regnat quilibet hora diei. Note beginning: ARies ys pe signe of a Ram. . . . flewmatike / of complexion and feminyne of Kynde. Inscription wholly blacked out.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20086222_vol_1_0040.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
