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Liber medicinalis.

A compendium of the 'Canon' by an unnamed German [?]: including a list of vegetable and animal materia medica, receipts, etc.

Written in a rounded semi-current gothic hand 33-34 lines to a page. Some initials in red or black, paragraph marks in red.

Fol. 1. [IN nomine domini cuis bonitate vobis karissimis sociis et scolaribus / meis debitor sum ad erudiendium in moribus et scientiis] / quia prius vobis tradidi compendium moralium in quo / continentur summe philosophorum et theologorum atque vobis tradidi / breuiter summas librorum aristotelis maioris philosophie et paruorum naturalium / nunc quidem secundum promissionem vobis a me factam volo impartire / vtiliora et meliora artis medicine cum experimentis et secretis / que uel quas maiores medici habuerunt christo adiuuan / te me In cuius nomine hoc opus aggrediar. Capitulum primum / de vtilitate medicine et de quibus considerandum est in medicina. / DIco in primis quod medicina est scientia qua sanitas et insanitas / cognoscitur qua sanitas conseruatur ...

35v, line 23 MEdicina simplex est que non est cum alia medicina / per manum artificis commicta seu composita / ... 

77v, line 23 ... vulpis qui desiccatur et bibitus confert asmati et cetera. line 23 Sequitur Tractatus tertius de cibis et potibus.

 129, line 2 ... sufficiet ad curandum omnem morbum / curabilem. Si autem volueris pluria videre recurre ad / alios libros auicenne et galieni et aliorum medicorum / autenticorum. Sit igitur deus benedictus et gloriosus qui / ad finem diu desideratum produxit. Amen. anno [14]94.

 line 7 Verses in Latin on medicinal weights, receipts, etc.

129v-End Medical receipts, etc.

Ff. 1-35v Medicina simplex. 35v-77v Food and drink. 80-89v Fevers. 89v-122v Treatment of diseases, poisons. 122v-129 Syrups, electuaries, etc.

Avicenna (980-1036)

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