Medical miscellany

Medical miscellany

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1. ff. 340r-384v Peter of Abano, De venenis

f. 340r Solemnis tractatus celeberrimi viri Petri de Abano Paduani de venenis incipit feliciter. Reverendissimo in christo patri domino domino Johanni diunia prudenita summo pontifici. Petrus de abano minimus medicorum ... f. 340v ... Quod venenum oppositum est cibo nostri corporis ... f. 384v ... saltem cum praevisione observatur tamen conditionibus suprascriptis. T . Et hec de venenis et eorum remediis dicta sufficiant ad laudem et gratiam incomprehensibilis dei. Amen. Anno demino millesimo CCCCO. septuagesimo mensis decembris.

2. ff. 384v-410v Anonymous, De septem aetatibus mundi

f. 384v De septem aetatibus mundi et viris illustribus qui fuerunt in eis et de mirabilibus gestis ... Hic intendo originaliter succincte tamen et conclusive describere ... f. 410v ... Michael eus filius quintus XXXI.

3. ff. 410v-420r Anonymous, De septem climatibus mundi

f. 410v De septem Climatibus mundi et primo de primo Climate. Incipente in orientem. Primum clima diamoreos ... f. 420r ... et septemtrionalem partem hyberniae et ibi est finis elus.

4. ff. 420r-431v Anonymous, Praelaturae Provinciarum

f. 420r Prelature provinciarum. In civitate romana sunt infrascript ecclesie ... f. 431v ... Rex collensis manedatulus. Et hec de praelaturis provinciarum sufficiant. Completus [in festo]. Sacrosancti Danielis Anno domini M. cccolxx die vero [31] Martis. Foeliciter.

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1 volume 93 [94] ll. [ff. 340-431]. 4to 21 x 14 1/2 cm. Early 19th century. morocco gilt binding. Fol. 429 has been wrongly bound after fol. 428 which it should precede. This MS. at one time formed part of a larger volume. It is foliated 340-431, with a number dropped after fol. 340. A leaf has been cut out between fol. 386 and fol. 387, but without loss of text. Written in a clear humanistic, 20 lines to a page. Chapter headings and marginalia in red, partly rubricated. Space for large captials. A few contemporary marginal notes. Possibly produced in Venice.

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).