Petrus de Abano (1250-1316)

De venenis. Written in a rounded gothic hand, 33 lines to a page. Initials, paragraph marks and heading in red. Fol. 1 (By a later hand) Pollux de Venenis editus a Magistro/Petro de Ebano.//REuerendissimo in christo parti et domino. domino Iohanni/diuina prouidentia summo pontifici Petrus de/ebano minimus medicorum... 17 Et ideo mater ommnium medicinarum tiriaca est. a medicis/approbata. Amen. (red) Deo gratias. amen. amen.//Explicit pollux de uenenis breuis et utilis//tractatus. Editus a magistro Petro de Ebano.//qui dicitur consiliator. deo gratias Amen. A few marginal notes by later 15th century hand, Partly shorn away in rebinding.

Early 15th Century

1 volume 17 ll. 8vo. 19 x 13 cm. On vellum, modern boards. Margins badly cropped in rebinding.

Purchased 1922.

This MS. originally formed part of a larger volume containing MS. No. 390 (Johannitius) and MS. No. 83 (Articella): on the first leaf is a foliation 46, which carries on from the last leaf of the Articella MS. The 'De venenis' was first printed at Mantua in 1472.

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).