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A collection of medical recipes and pharmacological compounds mostly in Italian, but also in Latin, on paper. North-East Italy, probably Padua, late 15th century.
Mostly in the hand of a single scribe probably active at the Benedictine abbey of Santa Giustina in Padua, as suggested by a passage referring to Padua in the text relating to 'Aqua quae vocatur Mater Balsami' (ff. 57v-58r), reading 'Vn altro monago nostro el qualle portando un grande traue cum altri fradelli monacj in Sancta Iustina de Padoa … Anchora auendo veduto una mirabile cossa vno homo nobile padoano'. The spelling of the Italian language is also consistent with the vernacular spoken and written in the Veneto region.
Contents:
1. ff. 1r-19r: Collection of medical recipes in Italian and Latin, formerly identified (by S.A.J. Moorat) as a translation of Guy de Chauliac, Chirurgia parva, based on a general similarity of the contents, and of the arrangement of surgical subjects.
The collection includes recipes for the preparation of plasters and bandages, and ends with recipes for ailments of the eye.
f. 1r, Incipit: Al nome de dio. Comentiamo dalla piaga simplice la qualle e in carne facta ...
f. 19r, lines 10-18, Explicit: ... La catarata non conferma se medega cum molta purgatione de corpo … Fa colirij con sugo de extremita de fenochio. E sapi che in questo libreto tu non auera compida doctrina delle egritudine deli ochii. per questo haueray algune bone cosse.
2. ff. 19r-51r, Antidotario, a collection of simple and compound drugs in Italian and Latin.
The collection includes recipes for the preparation of electuaries, unguents, eyedrops, plasters, waters, oils and pills for ailments including eye infections, female complaints, headache, toothache, stomach complaints, tumours, heart conditions and pestilence.
The text is imperfect due to the loss of single quires after ff. 24 and 50 respectively, and of two leaves after f. 27.
f. 19r, line 19 onwards, Incipit: Antidotario de medesine composite de molte altre [above the line] simplice / Receuerai adoncha amigo carissimo questa composicion de medesine la qualle io te ho promessa denancij e son medesine pizole lequalle esta approva molte uolte per mi. E primamente delle repercussiue, po de le resolutive, po de le mundificatiue, [f. 19v] poy de le glutinatiue. poy de le molificatiue. dele dureze. poy de le cauterizatiue. [paragraph mark] Sapi adoncha quando tu intendi a repercuotere e bon in principio vacuare el corpo. La materia calda se uoda cum questa segura medesina. toy sosini .x. porcini viole 2/3. Fa cuosere in una libra de aqua. Per fina amezo. Jn laltra meza libra daqua fa bolire la mancho .ij. bogi tamarindi. Mana e cassia. an 2/3.5 la qalle coladura sia strecta cun le man forte …
ff. 50v-51r, lines 1-2, Explicit: [f. 50v ending] Impiastro a male de pestillentia. tolli valeriana … poy tuoy rasa de pino pinze nauale p[er] / [large textual gap due to the loss of one quire] / [f. 51r] metille in nel focho e lasale venire ben rosse … e poy dala a manzare alo infermo.
3. ff. 51r-123v: Additional pharmacological recipes for the preparation of electuaries, unguents, plasters and bandages, waters, eyedrops, oils, pills, in Italian and Latin, supplied at different times by the main scribe and also by other hands from f. 75 onwards.
The text is imperfect due to the loss of single leaves after ff. 50, 52 and 54 respectively.
f. 51r, line 3, Beginning imperfect: Jtem Vnguento mirabile che sana e libera tute le fistole …
f. 123v, lines 5-9, Explicit: … Vnguentum ad panariciam digitorum R olii masticini … vnguentum de suco enule libr. j. misse et fiat unguentum.
4. f. 123v: Two pharmacological recipes in Italian.
f. 123v, lines 10-16, 17-22, Incipit: 1) A purgare a uno che teme il figato / R syr accetosi syr de endiuia … endiuie lupillorum an quantum suffic.; 2) Unguento da tegna / R spiuma marina 3.10 bauracho sol pero uino euforbio … cum feza de olio anticho.

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