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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![AMBROSIUS DE VIGLIANO The leaves are foliated 71-79 in a 16th cent. hand. This fragment contains Section 8, para. 49, line 22 to the end of the Sixth Day in Schenkl’s edition of the ‘Opera’ Pars. I, pp. 240-261. For an account of this work, and its relation to the ‘Hexaemeron’ of St. Basilius of Caesarea [329 P-379], cf. Thorndike ‘ History of Magic and Experimental Science ’, Vol. I, pp. 481 et seq. Extracted from a volume of miscellaneous MS. literary and historical pieces, collected by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford [1766-1827]. Purchased 1935. (68429°) 43. — Exorcismus sive conjuratio super demoniacum. With the Exorcisms of St. Zeno of Verona, and of St. Vincent Ferrier. 17 [18] if. 8vo. 21 x 14 cm. [Late 15th cent.] In covers from a vellum leaf of a 14th cent. MS. on Canon Law. Fol. 17 is wanting. Written in a current humanist hand, 22-32 lines to a page. Initials and headings in red. Fol. I (red) Exorcismus siue adiuratio sancti Ambrosii super demoniacum cum quo eijciebat [sic] demones. / Domine exaudi orationem meam ... 4 V , line 25 ... per omnia secula se / culorum Amen. / (red) Nota quod orationes predicte dicentur quoad infirmus sit liberatus ... Incipit Coniuratio Demonum vexantium personas. / IN nomine patris, et Filii, et Spiritus sancti. . . ... et fumus / tormentorum tuorum ascendet in secula seculorum Amen. Incipit Coniuratio contra Demones Sancti Zenonis Episcopi veronensis. Et primo dicitur / Miserere mei deus ... ... et defendet vos habitantes in hoc habitaculo per / Christum dominum nostrum Arnen. Incipit Exorcismus secundum Sanctum Vincentium ordinis pre- dicatorum contra demoniacos / primo dicas letanías hoc modo, psalmus. / Deus in adiutorium meum. . . . Dominus sit nobis / Clemens et propitius. Notes on the formulae and ceremonies of the Exorcist, including a passage (fol. I7 V ) in Italian in which the City of Modena is mentioned. Purchased 1930. (56390) 44. AMBROSIUS de Vigliano [& others], Ricettario: in Italian and Latin. Written by several hands. io[i2] Il. + i3i[i32] ff. 4to. 18 x 13 cm. [Middle 15th cent.] On vellum and paper. Original stamped leather binding worn; both ties wanting. First and last leaves of the first section, fol. 125, and last leaf missing. Lower margin of fol. hi torn away. The first section (10 11.) and ff. 109-end are on paper. A few headings and paragraph marks in red. In the upper margin of fol. 41 ‘Fra[ter] Ambrosius. or[dinis]. mi[norum], Vigl[ia]nne[nsis] ’. In the lower margin of the penultimate leaf of the first section is the name of ‘Fratris Bernardini de Varallo ordinis minorum’ in an early 16th cent. hand. The MS. may have been written in a monastic house at Padua, as on fol. i23 v , in the course of an entry concerning a ‘Mirabile oleum Balsamicum’, the writer states: ‘Et vidi alium monachum nostrum qui defferendo magnam trabem cum aliis monachis in sancta Justina Paduae manum strinxit inter collonnas et trabem...’ Purchased 1930. (63929) 6 (red) ii ii v (red) I2 V 13 (red) 15 I5 v -End](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20086222_vol_1_0042.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
