Collection of medical treatises

Collection of medical treatises

Written in a good rounded gothic script, in double column of 50-60 lines to a column. The 'Consilia' (ff. 112-162) are by a more angular and less formal hand. Some large ornamental initials in colours, with marginal decorations: other capitals in red, blue and green, paragraph marks in red, or alternate red and blue, headings and colophons in red.

Contents

1. ff. 2r-99v Simon of Genoa, Synonyma medicinae

f. 2r Optabat Galienus discere et docere posse res sine nominibus ... f. 99v Zmilax grece. 1. rorastrum ut in kyrann[i]de. Expliciunt Synonima Simonis Ianuensis. Ad laudem dei altissimi et tocius curie celestis triumphantis. Argentine scriptum. Anno domini Millesim[o]quadringentesimo Septuagesimosecundo Vicesimatercia februarii que fuit Dominica Reminiscere Per egregium artis et medicine doctorem. Magistrum Benedictum hermannum De Bulach.

2. ff. 99v-103v John Damascene, Synonyma medicinae

f. 99v Alaseph est puncta rubea que sunt ut morsus pulicis ... f. 103v Xegi aut zezi. est. vitriolum. Expliciunt synonima Mesue breuiter collecta et scripta Per Egregium artis et medicine doctorem Benedictum hermannum de Bulach. Anno domini M? cccc lxxii die uero quarta. Marcii.

3. f. 103v-104r Virtues of 'Cardo benedictus', receipts, etc., extracted from the works of Simon of Genoa etc.

4. ff. 104v-106v Hermannus Benedictus de Bulach, Consilium de podagra

f. 104v Cura istius Infirmitatis scilicet podagre fit duobus modis ... f. 106v ... quod salus et vita vestra prolongabitur ad laudem dei etc. Scriptum Argentine anno domini M cccc Septuagesimosecundo 12 mensis marcii Per egregium Benedictum hermannum de Bulach artis et medicine doctorem.

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5. ff. 112r-162v Baverius de Baveriis, Consilia

f. 112r Consilium de paralisi limphet vinum cum aqua rosmarini ... f. 162v ... textum Avicenne capitulo de curacione opilacionum epatis tractatu 2. Amen etc. Deo gracias. Flandria me genuit totum peragrauimus orbem Oestervant Aen Allen wanch.

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6. ff. 164r-188v Costa ben Luca, Dietarium, translated into Latin by Stephanus Arlandi

f. 164r Huic domine trivie vestre postulacionis hec summa ... f. 188v ... tu tamen caue a se et satis contentus aspires. Explicit dietarium magistri Stephani Arlandi finitum per Egregium artis et medicine Doctorem Magistrum Benedictum Hermannum de Bulach Anno domini Mo CCCCo Septuagesimo 2o die mensis Iulii Argentine.

7. ff. 189r-197r Roger Bacon, De retardandis senectutis accidentibus

f. 189r Capitulum primum de causis senectutis et senii ... Mundo senescente senescunt homines ... f. 197r ... deo ad huius rei conplementum Vestre clemencie et altitudini epistolam composui predictam.

8. f. 197r-v Medical receipts

9. ff. 197v-201v Arnold of Villanova, De humido radicali

f. 197v Incipit liber Magistri Arnoldi de villa nova de humido radicali et de conservacione vite humane ... f. 201v ... Benedictus sit igitur deus qui dedit hanc graciam servis suis tempore postremo. 1474. 17 mense Marcii Per do[minum]. be[nedictum]. he[rmannum] [de] bulach.

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10. ff. 204r-248v Avicenna, Fen sexta quarti Canonis

f. 204r Incipit fen Sexta Quarti canonis Avicenne qui est de venenis ... f. 247r ... et pone super ipsum post et in fine eius emplastrum basilicon. Laus deo. Expletus est quartus liber canonis libri principis Abohaly aviceni filii alybesenhy padue per manus Magistri hermanni benedicti de bulach Medicine Scolarem die 11a mensis novembris Anno domini. Millesimoquadringentesimo Sexagesimoquarto. Incipiunt Rubrice seu capitula fen Sextae Quarti canonis Avicenne ... f. 248v Mors sanguinis sub ungue ab attracione eveniens. Laus deo.

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1464-1474

1 volume 253 ff. (first and last 4 bl.). folio. 38 x 28 cm. Original stamped leather binding over wooden boards: one of the two leather and metal clasps is wanting.

Purchased at Lucerne (Dietrichstein Sale) 22/11/1933, Lot 516.

The final treatise was transcribed by Benedictus Hermannus de Bulach in 1464, while he was studying medicine at Padua; most of the others were written by him later, at Strasbourg. Pasted on the inside of the upper cover is a portion of a document written at the University of Padua relating to the appointment of Nicolas de Panviatis as Beadle, dated 28 February 1400. Inside the lower cover are portions of two documents, one in German dated 1473, the other in Latin dated 1465, both relating to the Church of St. Peter Junior in Strasbourg.

For another manuscript containing works transcribed by de Bulach as a student at Padua see Freiburg MS.239, Winfried Hagenmaier, Kataloge der Universitatsbibliothek Freiburg im Breisgau, Band 1, Teil 3 (Wiesbaden, 1980), p.9

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).

This material has been digitised and can be freely accessed online through Wellcome Collection catalogue.

From the Dietrichstein Library.