Collection of practical and theoretical medical works (Miscellanea Medica XVI)
- The language is apparently of north-west Norfolk. See M. Claire Jones, 'Vernacular literacy in late-medieval England: the example of East Anglian medical manuscripts', unpublished PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2000), pp. 165-168.
- Date:
- Early 15th Century
- Reference:
- MS.542
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Collection of practical and theoretical medical works (Miscellanea Medica XVI). Source: Wellcome Collection.
- Cover
- Medical poem
- Constantine the African, 'Viaticum', books I, II and part of III wanting
- Pseudo-Galen, 'De passionibus puerorum'
- Averroes, 'Anatomia', extract
- Ricardus Anglicus, 'Anatomia', incomplete
- Notes on phlebotomy, pulses, prognostics, urines etc. Beginning wanting
- Anonymous, 'Experimenta secreta et experta'
- Zacharias of Salerno, 'De passionibus oculorum'
- 'A table which contayneth All the mater [sic] of the English wrinten [sic] mediciens [sic] before in this Booke 1610'
- Anonymous, Glossary of materia medica, with some names in English
- Anonymous, Glossary of materia medica, with some names in French or English
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