Ordenung der Gesuntheit: a 'Regimen senitatis' in German, dedicated to Graf Rudolf von Hochenburg and his wife Margarethe von Tierstain, plus various other medical works

Ordenung der Gesuntheit: a 'Regimen senitatis' in German, dedicated to Graf Rudolf von Hochenburg and his wife Margarethe von Tierstain, plus various other medical works

Contents

1. ff. 1r-43v Ordenung der Gesuntheit

f. 1r Lob der heilig weyssagen beschreibt und sprich her ... f. 2v ...und dorumb hon Ich inbesunder heb und gedech niss dem Edeln grossen Rudolff von hohenberg meinen gneidigen heren und frawen margrethen von tirstein meinne gneidige frawen weyt gesuchtet und zu samen gelessen auss den bewerten meister der natur und der ertzeneyen diese noch geschriben ler die man heyssen magen und/nemen rengnum sanitatus zu teusch das puoch von den ordenung der gesuntheit ... Aristotiles schreibt zu dem Konig allexander in dem buoch von der ordenung der furstem ... f. 43v ... und sich dornoch regirt dem schat sie neutzssen on allen zweyfeln. amen amen amen amen amen amen amen.

2. ff. 44r-45 and 169-188 Isaac Judaeus, Liber urinarum. Translated from the Latin version of Constantine the African

f. 44r Hie vohet an das harn buch santi constantinius [Continued on ff. 169-188]

3. ff. 46-60 and 139-168 An incomplete and unidentified work on cures for various diseases, with some receipts

4. ff. 60v-128r Anonymous, treatise on the calendar, astronomy, medical astrology, etc.

f. 60v In dieser figur wurdert in den sontag buchstaben ... nach viertzehen hundert und funfzigiaren ... f. 61r In diser nach gemacheten figur windet man die guldin zal ... ff. 62r-63r Table of Dominal Letters. ff. 63v-65r Weather forecasts according to the Zodiac. ff. 66r-78v Medical prognostications according to the days of the Moon [etc.]. ff. 79-94 On the Months. ff. 94-111 On the signs of the Zodiac. ff. 111v-116 On the Planets. ff. 116v-122 Weather prognostications. ff. 122v-128 Virtues of precious stones.

5. ff. 129-138 Plague receipts

6. ff. 188-194 Medical receipts

7. ff. 194v-276v Anonymous, Herbal, incomplete

f. 194v Hic vahet an das buch der meister Avicenna ypocras und galieni Das sie durch gotz willen In zu gedechnisz geoffenboret haben von allen crewttern ... Artimesia. peybosz der ist zweyerlay weysz und rot ... f. 276v ... In dem kind bette die Vergen alle mit einander do von ...

8. ff. 277r-286r Anonymous, Latin & German glossary of herbs

f. 277r Incipiunt herbarum. Abrotanum eberitz vel abrotonium garthagen ... f. 286r Kyma lepia bonen mel.

9. f. 286v Medical receipts by a contemporary hand.

c.1450

1 volume 1 l. + 286 ff. + 1 l. 4to. 20 1/2 x 15 1/2 cm. Original stamped leather binding over oak boards, rebacked: both clasps wanting. Twelve leaves are probably missing. The lower part of fol. 61 has been torn away, a few margins are frayed, and the MS. has been slightly cropped in rebinding. Written by several contemproray hands in a rounded gothic script: initials, headings and paragraph marks in red. On fol. 60v is a rough pen-drawn circular diagram for finding the Dominical Letter, in red and green: similar figures were on the recto and verso of the next leaf but have been torn out. There are also three Calender Tables in red and black on fol. 62 and fol. 63r. An unnamed bookseller has paginated the MS. in ink 1-597 but a new pencilled foliation is used in the description below. There are original signatures in groups of 24 (a-z), but ff. 46-60 and ff. 139-68, as well as other leaves, have been bound in wrong. order.

In the upper margin of f. 286v 'Herr dimmer 1522 Pfarer zu Wesp'. On the verso of the first fly-leaf 'Im 1546 Hanns Hechebleben [?]'. On the recto of the last fly-leaf three medical receipts by an early I7th century hand.

Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).