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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    No. 6 This is entered as anonymous in Thorndike’s ‘Catalogue of Incipits’ Cols. 392, 728. In the first of these Adelard [of Bath] is stated to be the translator, but this translation is not mentioned by Haskins in his chapter on Adelard in ‘Studies in the History of Mediaeval Science’ 1924, Ch. II. There are two original vellum fly-leaves at the beginning. On the verso of the first, the name Saudon [ ?] by an early 15th cent. hand. On the verso of the second : ‘ Ce present liure appartient a / Berthellemy le Roy demeurant / paris en la Rue de la / riviere au dit lieu au lougis / de monsieur de Vignaulx’. This is partly repeated below, with the name ‘Le roy’. Below this again is the signature of J[ean] B[aptiste] L[ouis] Chomel [1700-1765], the eminent French physician. On another vellum fly-leaf pasted down on to the lower cover, ‘Acheté 25 f. Ce livre a appartenu à Chomel’. In the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the text is a faint inscription in pencil: ‘Acheté à la vente de Mr. Bosquillon an 10’ [1801/2]. This may refer to the French chemist Edouard François Michel Bosquillon [1744-1816]. Purchased 1910. (23675) 547. MISCELLANEA Medica XXI. Collection of medical treatises in Latin : by several hands. 307 11. 4to. 20^x14 cm. [14th cent.] On vellum: 18th cent, quarter calf binding over wooden boards: back-strip damaged. Nos. 2, 4, and the last work, are incomplete. Ff. 62, 63, 72, 98 are slightly defective: the first and last leaves stained and rubbed. Between fol. 98 and fol. 99 is a contemporary inserted vellum slip. There are three main scripts, and two others. Hand A, Nos. 1, 2 B, (3). (4)3 (i7)-end C, (6)-(io) D, (3M16) E, (5) F, (ii) A neat gothic, probably French, that of No. 2 smaller. Written in double column of 32 and 42 lines to a column. Initials in alternate red and blue, with marginal decora tions, headings and paragraph marks in red: perhaps early 14th cent. In double column of 42 (No. 3), 44-46, (No. 4), 40-44 lines to a column: a few initials in blue. A larger semi- rounded gothic: also possibly French. A more angular gothic, probably English. In double column, 44-46 lines to a column, paragraph marks in red. A larger gothic, also probably English. In double column of 38 lines to a column. Initials in blue and red, headings and paragraph marks in red. An agular gothic also probably English, but different from D. Initials in red or black, paragraph marks in red: 26-34 lines to a page. Similar to E. In double column 33-36 lines to a column. There are marginal notes to No. 2 by the same scribe, in a very small script. 1. RHAZES. Liber divisionum Fol. 1, col. i (red) Incipiunt [diuisiones rasis]. / U[entilata in pre sentía /] cuiusdam [uiri probi rememo] / ratio diuisionum... 53 v , coi. 2 et medicine que eradicant pannum. // Expliciunt diuisiones // RASIS. 54 Blank. 2. CONSTANTINUS Africanus. Viaticum. [ Incomplete ] Fol. 55, coi. 1 Quoniam quidem ut in rethoricis tullius testatur . . . coi. 2, line 6 (Text begins) Capillus ex fumo grosso et calido . . . I03 v , coi. 2 ... ex grauitate et grossitudine / descendit ad inferiora et findit manus et /