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Liber divisonum, Antidotarium, Synonima: translated by Gerardus Cremonensis. Written in double column of 56 lines to a column, in a neat gothic hand, probably of Italian origin. Large decorated initials in colours on fol. 1, fol. 12, fol. 27v: other ornamental initials and paragraphs marks in alternate blue and red: headings in red. Fol. 1 (red) Incipit liber diuisionum rasys, prologus.//UERBA [ABUBETRI]/filii zacharie [arazi] ventilata/fuit in presentia cuiusdam probi ui/ri... line 15 (red) Explicit prologus. Capitulum primum de alopitia. 12, col. 2, line 47 (red)...Expletus est tractatus nonus./Incipit tractatus .X.us de febribus.//FEBRICITANTES//ET PRECIPUE//acute non solum necess est... 27v, col. 1, line 38 ...que eradicant/pannum delent uestigia earum. (red) Incipit antidotarium rasis al/bubetri filii zaccarie arazi. DIXI IN HOC ME/O LIBRO MEDI/cinas quarum necessitas est... col. 2, line 36 (Text begins) Confectio tincture denigrantis capillos... 33, col. 2, line 30 (End)...in uino stiptico/aut oleo rosato, sedat dolorem usque quod fiat algebra. line 32 (red) Ad doloren capitis./Dolori capitis iuuerit tunc si fuerit... 33v (End) ...et post hoc pone super ipsum/unguentum carnis generatorum. Synonima: written in 7 columns. 34 [Two lines wanting]...et fuerit in/membris omnibus et precipue in/oculis et cito recedunt./Alasef id est nodi qui fuerint in collo/in gutta et sub ascillis et/inguibus./... 36v (End) z ubd./Radix mandragore./z ufferaf.

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