Volume 1

Catalogue of Western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / by S.A.J. Moorat.

  • Wellcome Historical Medical Library
Date:
1962-1973
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    col. 2 ... desiderium / ultimum uehementi desiderio. Explicit. 15. MACER FLORIDUS. De viribus herbarum P. 211, coi. 1 (red) Incipit liber macri de uirtutibus herbarum. / HEr- barum quasdam dicturus carmine uires / . . . 237, coi. 2, line 15 Una diagridii. sic apta solucio fiet. / E.X.P.L.I.C.I.T. Followed by 16 lines of verse, beginning: ‘Hec olus urtica cibolus canab[i]s canasca’ and ending: ‘Nastur. auencia curant paralitica membra ’. 16. MACER FLORIDUS. Table of Diseases and Herbs in 7 columns, 3 columns on p. 242 P. 238, col. I 242, col. 3 (red) Capiti. / Allia. / . . . (red) Scotosi. / Pionia. P. 242, col. i 244, col. 2, line 20 line 21 17. [ Anon.] Gloss on MACER ARthemis. in. aerem secans . . . Verpus est impudicus digitus . . . . . . Unde iudei verpi dicuntur. 18. [Anon.] Miscellaneous medical receipts and notes P. 244, col. 2, line 22-P. 249 P. 250, col. i 251, col. i, line 6 19. Pseudo-GALEN (C.). Antibalomenon Incipiunt antiphalomia Galieni. / PRo aloe mitte liceum . . . Pro zinzibero: piretrum. P. 251, col. 2 253, col. 3 20. [Anon.] Synonyma herbarum. ( Incomplete ) Incipiunt cinonima herbarum. / Agrimonia, idem, lappi inuersa /... Prerogatiua, idem, excellentia meritorum. 21. [Anon.] P. 254 273, col. 2 Fragment of a collection of medical receipts: in French Pernez auence. bugle, pigle. sanicle . . . (Pur fere eschaufe) ... la ratine de persil e / liuerwort e cicore e blanc. e morele 22. Figures of the ‘Astrological Man’ and the ‘Blood-letting Man’: Pp. 275, 276 with accompanying Latin texts. 23. Notes in Latin on the veins Pp. 277-283 There are some added receipts etc., in English on pp. 184, 209, 251 by late 16th or early 17th cent, hands: on p. 282, by a 15th cent. hand. The first of the preliminary leaves contains an Index to the ‘ Trotula ’ tracts only, by a 16th cent. hand. No. 1 This seems to be a version of the ‘Anatomia’ of Richardus Salernitanus, though it differs from the entries in Corner’s ‘Anatomical texts’ 1927. No. 2 ‘Philamon’ is probably written in error for Polemon of Laodicea. No. 3 The end of this work is found in De Renzi ‘ Collectio Salernitana ’ Vol. II, p. 697. No. 6 Though here attributed to ‘ Thomas de Bononia ’ this work seems to be a variant of the tract ‘ De aqua vitae ’ by Theodoric. [Cf. Singer ‘ Catalogue of alchemical MSS’. Vol. 2. No. 1000]. No. 12 A work with a similar Prologue in verse is entered in Thorndike’s ‘ Catalogue of Incipits,’ Col. 427 and ascribed to ‘ Asclepius’. Here his entry also includes two other anonymous MSS. (Prague 2673, Vienna 2505) also entitled