Hieronymus de Manfredis, Centiloquium de medicis et infirmis

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1. ff. 1v-19v Hieronymus de Manfredis, Centiloquium de medicis et infirmis

Title: 'Jeronimi Manfredi clarisimi physici ac medici astrologi centiloquium medicine infirmis ad M. Johannem Bentinolium Hanibalis presilium'.

Incipit: 'Quamuis Medicina de se scientia sit prefecta...'

Explicit: '...fuge horas saturni et martis et elige horas Iouis et veneris'.

2. ff. 20r-25v Notes on the zodiac, on the Alphabet, on times to take medicines accordingto the planets, on different kinds of medicines, on blood-letting and when, on the compounding of remedies, etc.

3. ff. 21-30 blank

Late 15th Century

1 volume 30 ll. (last 5 bl.). 4to. 19 1/2 x 14 cm. Paper. Quarter calf binding. Margins slighly cropped.

Purchased 1909.

Phillipps MS. No.955, with his Library Stamp. Sold at Sotheby's 9/6/1899, Lot 847.

Database description transcribed from 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).