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Commonplace book containing practical and theoretical medical treatises (Miscellanea Medica XXXVIII)

Date:
Late 15th Century
Reference:
MS.562
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Commonplace book containing practical and theoretical medical treatises (Miscellanea Medica XXXVIII). Source: Wellcome Collection.

  • Cover
  • Quotation from Galen's 'De ingenio sanitatis', etc.
  • Incantation in Catalan against enemies, and for safety and prosperity
  • Poem in Latin
  • Pseudo-Jesus Christ, 'Epistola ad Abgarum'
  • Prayers in Latin and Catalan
  • Latin invocation to St. Nicaise 'contra glandulas'
  • Copho, Modus medendi, abbreviated and incomplete
  • Arnold of Villanova, 'Regimen conferens memoriae'
  • Petrus Hispanus, 'Liber duodecim aquarum', extract
  • Medical receipts
  • 'Sphera Pythagorae', attributed to Donatus, with directions for use in Latin and planetary weekdays in Catalan
  • Receipts for colours in Catalan and Latin
  • Cover
40/143 (page 19r)
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page 17v
37
page 18r
38
page 18v
39
page 19r
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page 19v
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page 20r
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