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Bartholomaeus de Ripa Romea, De lapidibus, and other texts

Contents

1. pp. 1-23 Bartholomaeus de Ripa Romea, De lapidibus

p. 1 Antifacio bartholomei de ripa Romea contracta thesaurizata ex philosophie lecturis elicita. Habete celi silencium et ingratitudinis immane scelus ... De adamante. Adamantum genus eximium cristallizat ... p. 23 ... similiter oleo uriccornis ungatur.

2. pp. 24-37 Zael, Liber sigillorum

p. 24 In nomine domini hic est preciosus liber magnus atque secretus cehel quem fecerunt filiis israelis in deserto post exitum ab egipto secundum motum et cursum siderum. Ego magister cheel unus ex filiis israelis qui post transitum maris rubri ... p. 37 ... nec omnino depereant silencio retinenda. Explicit.

3. pp. 37-72 Kiranides, books I-IV

p. 37 Incipit liber Kyrannidarum. Fruditissimo domino magistro. Ki. p.[?] infimus clericus admiror et commendo ... transfertur itaque liber iste constantinopoli nauale imperante anno mudni. 6679. anno christi. 1169. indictione secunda ... p. 72 ... denique de lapidibus exsequemur. Explicit Kyrannides. deo gratias.

1 volume 72 pp. 4to. 21 1/2 x 16 cm. On vellum. 19th cent. half-pigskin binding. Margins slightly cropped. Written in a small gothic script, by the same hand throughout, in double column of 49 lines to a column. Ornamental initial in blue and red on p. 1, other capitals in alternate blue and red; a few paragraph marks in blue, but mainly in red, headings in red. The pagination is modern. A rough pen-drawing of a lady in Tudor [?] costume, head and shoulders only, is found in the lower margin of p. 72.

Bartholomaeus de Ripa Romea, De lapidibus, and other texts

Ordenung der Gesuntheit: a 'Regimen senitatis' in German, dedicated to Graf Rudolf von Hochenburg and his wife Margarethe von Tierstain, plus various other medical works

Contents

1. ff. 1r-43v Ordenung der Gesuntheit

f. 1r Lob der heilig weyssagen beschreibt und sprich her ... f. 2v ...und dorumb hon Ich inbesunder heb und gedech niss dem Edeln grossen Rudolff von hohenberg meinen gneidigen heren und frawen margrethen von tirstein meinne gneidige frawen weyt gesuchtet und zu samen gelessen auss den bewerten meister der natur und der ertzeneyen diese noch geschriben ler die man heyssen magen und/nemen rengnum sanitatus zu teusch das puoch von den ordenung der gesuntheit ... Aristotiles schreibt zu dem Konig allexander in dem buoch von der ordenung der furstem ... f. 43v ... und sich dornoch regirt dem schat sie neutzssen on allen zweyfeln. amen amen amen amen amen amen amen.

2. ff. 44r-45 and 169-188 Isaac Judaeus, Liber urinarum. Translated from the Latin version of Constantine the African

f. 44r Hie vohet an das harn buch santi constantinius [Continued on ff. 169-188]

3. ff. 46-60 and 139-168 An incomplete and unidentified work on cures for various diseases, with some receipts

4. ff. 60v-128r Anonymous, treatise on the calendar, astronomy, medical astrology, etc.

f. 60v In dieser figur wurdert in den sontag buchstaben ... nach viertzehen hundert und funfzigiaren ... f. 61r In diser nach gemacheten figur windet man die guldin zal ... ff. 62r-63r Table of Dominal Letters. ff. 63v-65r Weather forecasts according to the Zodiac. ff. 66r-78v Medical prognostications according to the days of the Moon [etc.]. ff. 79-94 On the Months. ff. 94-111 On the signs of the Zodiac. ff. 111v-116 On the Planets. ff. 116v-122 Weather prognostications. ff. 122v-128 Virtues of precious stones.

5. ff. 129-138 Plague receipts

6. ff. 188-194 Medical receipts

7. ff. 194v-276v Anonymous, Herbal, incomplete

f. 194v Hic vahet an das buch der meister Avicenna ypocras und galieni Das sie durch gotz willen In zu gedechnisz geoffenboret haben von allen crewttern ... Artimesia. peybosz der ist zweyerlay weysz und rot ... f. 276v ... In dem kind bette die Vergen alle mit einander do von ...

8. ff. 277r-286r Anonymous, Latin & German glossary of herbs

f. 277r Incipiunt herbarum. Abrotanum eberitz vel abrotonium garthagen ... f. 286r Kyma lepia bonen mel.

9. f. 286v Medical receipts by a contemporary hand.

1 volume 1 l. + 286 ff. + 1 l. 4to. 20 1/2 x 15 1/2 cm. Original stamped leather binding over oak boards, rebacked: both clasps wanting. Twelve leaves are probably missing. The lower part of fol. 61 has been torn away, a few margins are frayed, and the MS. has been slightly cropped in rebinding. Written by several contemproray hands in a rounded gothic script: initials, headings and paragraph marks in red. On fol. 60v is a rough pen-drawn circular diagram for finding the Dominical Letter, in red and green: similar figures were on the recto and verso of the next leaf but have been torn out. There are also three Calender Tables in red and black on fol. 62 and fol. 63r. An unnamed bookseller has paginated the MS. in ink 1-597 but a new pencilled foliation is used in the description below. There are original signatures in groups of 24 (a-z), but ff. 46-60 and ff. 139-68, as well as other leaves, have been bound in wrong. order.

Ordenung der Gesuntheit: a 'Regimen senitatis' in German, dedicated to Graf Rudolf von Hochenburg and his wife Margarethe von Tierstain, plus various other medical works

Scripta (Brussel

Scripta : Mediaeval and Renaissance texts and studies

The Middle English ʻBoke of Stones' : the Southern version / edited by George R. Keiser.

Liber mineralium. Books I and II only and one page of Book III. (There are five Books comprising the published original). 

Written in a small neat humanistic hand, 28 lines to a page.

Fol. 1 (Beginning of Book I) BEATI ALBERTI MAGNI GERMANICI PHILOSOPHI /CELEBERRIMI MINERALIVM LIBER INCIPIT ET/PRIMO DE LAPIDIBVS LIBER PRIMVS FOELICITER [D]E COMMIXTIONE et coagulatione similiter autem et conge/latione et liquefactione ... to fol. 39 (End of Book II) ... sed quedam portio/nes de libro excepte deuenerunt.
Fol. 39v (Beginning of Book III) TEMPVS autem est nunc [consequenter] de metallorum naturis inquirere post la/pidum inuestigationem... line 28 ... in communi querentes quicumque de natura metallorum uidebuntur esse inquirenda Libro complebimus. Only one page of text from book three is in this manuscript.

1 volume 2 ll. + 39 ll. folio. 30 x 20 1/2 cm. 18th cent. limp vellum covers. Verso of last leaf slightly rubbed, some headings and text badly faded.

Saint Albertus Magnus (d. 1280)

Aldobrandino of Siena and others, miscellany

Contents

1. ff. 1r-80v Aldobrandino of Siena, Le régime du corps

f. 1r Au commencement de cest livre li dirons pour quoi il fu fait. Et la ou il fu pris. Il fu fait a la requeste la comtesse de prouvence qui fu mere La Royne de France La Royne d'Engleterre La Royne d'alemaigne, et la comtesse d'aniou. Et le fist maistre alebra de florence l'an de l'incarnacion ihesu crist mil. cc. et lvi ... f. 1v ... Diez qui per la grant puissance ... f. 80v ... du visage. Explicit li livres de phisique en Roumans.

2. ff. 80v-86v Recipe collection in French and Latin

f. 80v A touz leche prenez ... f. 86v ... n'etat sirones.

3. ff. 87r-88v Table of contents for the following three works

f. 87r Ce sont les chapitres de cest livre. Les vaines ... f. 88v Del ygures.

4. ff. 88v-112v, 114r-v Hippocrates, Epistola ad Caesarem

f. 88v Ci commence li livre de toutes maladies que Ypocras li sages iiii humeurs ... f. 114v li guerra.

5. f. 114v Prayer against fever

f. 114v Pro febris. Accipe tres ... cum patri etc.

6. ff. 114v-113r Veterinary recipes

f. 114v Ci commence la cure des chevals de toutes manieres de maladies. Quant cheval est esperonne ... f. 113r ... nouvel foin.

7. ff. 113r-v, 115r-v, 116r-v Treatise on how to store wines

f. 113r Ci commence la cure de garder toute manieres de vin ... Pour guerir I tonnel de vin ... f. 116v ... poez garder.

8. ff. 115v, 117r-123r Lapidiary

f. 115v Ci commence le lapidaire. Len truere lisant que Euans li rois darabe envoia a Neiron ... Li aymant vienet dynde ... f. 123r ... en or fin. Explicit.

1 volume ii + 124 + ii ff. 8vo. 16 1/2 x 11 cm. On vellum. 19th cent. French calf gilt binding. Last leaf slightly defective: margins cropped in re-binding. Ff. 113-116 have been bound in wrong order. Written in a rounded gothic book-hand, 30 lines to a page. Headings and paragraph marks in red, a few in blue. Large ornamental initial A on the first leaf in blue and red, with marginal decoration surrounding the text. Other initials in red and blue, blue and red, red and purple with marginal decorations. A pencilled foliation has been added. At the end of the 'Lapidaire' is an inscription: 'Ce present liure faisant mencion/de medecine et de la vertuz des/pierres precieuses Est a homme/honorable Jehan perraul[t] citoyen de chalon ... le xxiii Jour de mars/lan courant mil iiiio soixante et quatre J perrault'. On the last leaf recto are two other inscriptions by Perrault, one dated 3 May 1465 apparently referring to the mis-bound leaves. On the verso of f. 123 is another inscription by a different late 15th cent. owner: 'A homme honorable et discret/monsieur iohan cherizier/mestre bachelier escolier'.

Aldobrandino of Siena and others, miscellany

The secrets of Albertus Magnus : of the vertues of herbs, stones, and certain beasts. Whereunto is newly added, a short discourse of the seven planets, governing the nativities of children. Also a book of the same author, of the marvellous things of the world, and of certain things, caused of certain beasts.

Collection of short alchemical works, including De consideratione quintae essentiae by John of Rupescissa. Written in a semi-current humanistic hand 37-40 lines to a page. Initial P on the first leaf in red. The receipts throughout the volume, except for those on the least leaf of text, have been numbered from 1 to 206.

Contents

1. ff. 1r-34v John of Rupecissa, De consideratione Quintae Essentiae

f. 1r Primus liber de consideratione Quinte exientie [sic] omnium rerum transmutabilium. In nomine domini nostri yhesu christi. Inzipit [sic] liber de famulatu philosopie [sic], evangielio [sic] domini yhesu christi. Et pauperibus euangielizis [sic] viris. [D]ixit Salamon sapienite. Capitulo VIIo. Deus dedit ... f. 2r [S]ecretorum primum est quod [per] virtutem quam contulit deus ... f. 34v ...vel [in] eius absentia Aqua Ardens. Et deo omnipotenti pariterque filio et spiritui sancto sit laus per infinita secula Amen. Explicit liber de consideratione quinte essentie omnium rerum transmutabilium pauperibus evangelicis viris erogatus nec non de famulatu philosphie evangelio yhesu christi.

2. ff. 34v-44v Ramon Lull, Ars operativa

f. 34v [C]um ego Raymundus Ilerde existens. Essen rogatus a quibusdam caris amicis ... f. 44v Item hoc sperma bibitum aleviat membra hominis aggravata. Explicit ars operativa magistri Raymundi.

3. ff. 44v-49r Miscellaneous alchemical receipts

f. 44v Capitulum optimum et excellentissimum opus auri potabilis pro medicina corporis humani et lapidis philosophalis super M[ercurium] Vi[uum] et convenit proprie regibus et principibus et aliis magnis dominis pro sanitate conseruanda. Recipe ygitur in nomine yhesu christi de sole purificato bene ... f. 46r ... et melior pro corpore humano quam quod supradictum est ... Ecce lapisdis [sic] discriptio ... [A]udiant secreti et dillectissimi que loquor verba oris mei. Spiritus ubi vult spirat ... f. 47v ... Ibeo hoc secretum in puteo penitentie reducatur etc. Benedictus omnipotens qui cuncta creavit. Amen ... Alia aqua medicinalis philosophica. Capitulum aque medicinalis philosophicae et divine vera substantia ... f. 49r ... certe nobilitat id circo vobis tamquam et cetra. Explicit secretum aquae divinae.

4. ff. 49r-51r Frater Elias, vade mecum

f. 49r Incipit liber fratris Helie de composicione lapidis philosophalis qui liber intitulatur vade mecum. [Q]ueritis me et non invenietis ... f. 51r ... et tamquam c[o]agulum in lacte et fermentum in pasta et muscus in odore bono, etc.

5. ff. 51r-65v Miscellaneous receipts in Latin and Italian, numbered from 112 to 206

f. 52v-53r nos 130-133. Against plague. f. 54r-55v nos. 138-153. Herbal remedies. f. 55v-57v nos. 154-160. Virtues of stones. f. 64v Esplicit [sic] liber. Referamus Gratia[s]. christo. Amen. Nota lectore Como Io Maestro matio nominato dalla viola scrisi el dito libro de mia propria mano del 1453 adi. 17. hotore [? ottobre] Et aui la copia da uno cangeliero del duca borxo el qual ne faxeva uno gran conto per che lui lave con gran fadiga dale mano del marchexe lionelo (d'Este [1407-50]). f. 65v Questo libro sie de mi Matio barbiero Nominato dala viola ed aui la copia de uno libro che fo de la Illustrissima Signora del marchexe lionelo. Marchexe. de. Este. (Margarita d'Este [ -1439].).

1 volume 66 ll. (last bl.). 31 x 21 1/2 cm. Modern boards.

Collection of short alchemical works, including De consideratione quintae essentiae by John of Rupecissa. (Miscellanea Alchemica XV)

Magical and astrological treatises

Written by the same scribe throughout in a small upright hand, 26 lines to a page. A few headings and paragraph marks in red. There are some additional headings and marginalia by a slightly later hand. In the lower margin of f. 17v is a small pen-drawn horoscopic figure, and on ff. 18-20 numerical squares. 

Contents

1. f. 1r-2r Pseudo-Bede, De situatione stellarum in 12 signis

f. 1r Incipit tractatus de situatione stellarum in 12 signis [Added: 'secundum Venerabilem Bedam'. At the side, by the later hand: 'De stellis pertinentibus 12 signis']. Aries habet in capite stellam unam ...

2. ff. 2r-11v Pseudo-Bede, De 12 signis et eorum occulitis virtutibus

 f. 2r In nomine domini nostri ihesu christi. Incipit tractatus de 12 signis et eorum occultis uirtutibus editus a venerabili presbitero Beda ad Dalmachum missus discipulum suum qui fuir eruditor Karoli magni ... f. 11v ... Offerantur autem pro eis redimendis sacredoti qui ea consecraverit in honorie dei et 12. apostolorum. 12. denarii [added by the later hand: 'et supra predicta sigilla facias ut sacer[dos] dicar tres missas Spiritus sancti et et missas 12 apostolorum et tribuat ei angelum Sancti Joannis']. [Original hand] Anno. 1487. die 28. mensis Julii. conscriptus est liber iste per me Ro. bo. Scriptorem ferrariensem.

ff. 12r-13v blank.

3. ff. 14r-17r Picatrix, extract

f. 14r Incipiunt secrreta elementorum secretorum ... [Added by the later hand: 'et sunt ymagines 12 signorum extracte secundum consilium sapientis Picatricis. In libro secundo multis curis reperta fuere']. De figura arietis ad infirmitates capitis. Aries forma eius recta sine lingua ... f. 17r ... vel mastix et fiat de die et non de nocte. Expliciunt imagines signorum contra infirmitates corporis hominis secundum consilium picatricis libro 2 et hoc die. 30. mensis. Julii 1487.

4. ff. 17v-18v Anonymous, De civitatibus et provinciis sub signis

f. 17v [By the later hand] de civitatibus et provinciis existentibus sub ... f. 18v ... quia multa sunt sue utilitates.

5. ff. 18v-21r Anonymous, De figuris planetarum

f. 18v Iste sunt figure 7 planetarum in quibus ... f. 21r ... adde a parte posteriori curati sunt.

6. ff. 21v-23v Anonymous, De imaginibus septem planetarum

f. 21v [By the later hand] De ymagnibus septem plantearum. Imago Iovis fit exeunte eo de cancro ... f. 23v ... et tardare faciunt cantiem si in die bis hoc pectinet. Explectus est libellus iste die 30 Julii 1487. ferrarie. per me Ro. bo scriptorem.

1 volume 25 ff. (last 2 bl.). 4to. 21 x 15 cm. Modern quarter calf binding.

Magical and astrological treatises

xv pages, 1 leaf, 213 pages including tables, 2 preliminary leaves ; 25 cm

Le lapidaire du quatorzième siècle : Description des pierres précieuses et de leurs vertus magiques / d'après le traité du chevalier Jean de Mandeville, avec note, commentaires et un apendice sur les caractères physiques des pierres précieues ... par Is. del Sotto.

Alchemical and medical miscellany

Contents

1. pp. 1-103 Bartholomaeus de Ripa Romea, De lapidibus

p. 1 Antifatio Bartholomei de ripa Romea Contra Thesavri Zatvm eius ex Philosophi Ae Secretis Elicitum. Habete Coeli silentium et ingratitudinis immane scelus ... De adamante. Adamantum genus eximium christallizat ... p. 75 Conclusio. His et uariis ocultisque antiquissimorum philosophorum tractatibus ad unguem elicitis: qui igitur potest capere capiat: qui aures habet in corde conferat. qui viget industria sciat sibi proficere ... p. 77 (On the composition of artificial gems: the beginning on p. 76 is illegible) De operibus albis. Multifarie. Multisque modis perlarum seu margaritarum invenimus ampliari doctrinam ... p. 103 ... cum hoc unguento temporant lapides usque ad susceptibilitatem sculpture. Hactenus. Hec omnia discrete protendisse sufficiat ut nec vulgari se doleant nec omnino depereant silentio recticenda. Bartolomei de Ripa Romea Thesauriza tum Foeliciter. Finit.

2. pp. 104-110 Zael, Liber sigillorum

p. 104 Filiorum Israel sigillorum liber hic est. Pretiosus liber magnus atque secretus sigillorum quos fecerunt fillii issrael p. 110 ... ubique se habere congaudeant per dominum nostrum Iesum christum qui tecum vivit et regnat per omnia secula seculorum. Amen.

3. pp. 110-207 Johannes de Rupescissa, De consideratione Quintae Essentiae

p. 110 Divinum opus doctissimi et sanctissimi Raimundi ab angelis pauperibus viris et evangelicis datum de philosophie famulatu foeliciter incipit prologus. Dixit Salomon libro Sapientie capitulo. vii .... p. 206 ... vel in eius absentia aqua ardens. T. Raimundi doctissimi et sanctissimi divinum de philosophie famulatu opus explicit. Quo duce bistichius florentinus cum esset aurifex et sublimationes experiretur quas opus hoc expertissime docet mirabilis super ceteros cuius etatis phisicos doctissimos medicus evasit VT non empiricus videatur sed summus phisicorum monarcha adeo quod a nobilibus omnibus et Italie dominis et principibus tamquam appolinis suo cum lucro consultatur ut in eo vetustissimi ac sanctissimi ypocratis anima ac ratio esse videatur. Et ego Bartolomeus Marcellus Abiat cirra furtim hoc exemplum ex bisticii corrosis ac fumo [p. 207] tinctis codicibus excerpsi et diebus 8 octo trans scripsi currenti admodum calamo quare quicumque leges si emendosum Invenies non me sed temporis angustiam et exemplar ab aurifice scriptum culpabis nihil tamen deficere scito quod te quicumque sis sicut bisticium medicum ex aurifice facere possit Vale. 1462 Septembris xxvii.

4. pp. 207-240 Ramon Lull, Ars operativa

p. 207 Divinum opus Raimundi doctissimi et sanctissimi viri de arte practica medicinalium feliciter. Incipit. Hec est 2/9, uncia 38 ... Bitumen pro vitro ligno lapide et ceteris coniungendis. Recipe ex Incenso duas 2/9, masticis. ... p. 239 Item hoc sperma bibitum alleuiat hominis membra aggravata. Raymundi Doctissimi et sanctissimi Ars operativa feliciter explicit ... p. 240 Ego Bartolomeus marcellus abia Cirra hec cursim opera scripsi que a scriptore exorato habui. Erat autem exemplar Bisticii manibus scriptum. Quare in quo leges lauda deum qui tibi mihique hoc secretum cum furto reuellauit concessit donavit Deo laudes 1462. Kalendis Octobris Burgis.

5. pp. 240-248 Bisticius, Receptae

p. 240 Prima medicina per me Bisticium expertissima est contra quartanam et tertianam. In nomine Iesu christi. Collige per tres dies tria folia salvie .... p. 248 ... plaga quantumcumque grandis vel profunda sanabitur. Amen. Finis. Augustini florentini superaddite recepte feliciter finiunt quas ipse suis scripserat manibus cum opere de philosophie famulatu ...

6. pp. 248-258 Pseudo-Albert the Great, De secretis mulierum

p. 248 Optatum et verissimum opus Alberti magni de secretis philosophorum ... Atramentum cum sit huic operi necessarium ... p. 258 ... una pars huius tingit. Centum. Alberti opus perutile et expectendum feliciter explicit in quo phylosophorum secreta apperit non surdis neque negligentibus loquens.

7. p. 258 Verses on alchemy, in Italian

p. 258 Solvete i corpi in aqua atuti dico ... Sera segnor de quel ch'altri e sugietto.

8. pp. 258-261 F. Ariosto, Superadditio dictis

p. 258 Optima ac perutilis Ariosti doctissimi superadditio ea que dicta sunt a divino Raimundo in libro primo de philosophie famulatu declarando nobis [dosim elementorum ratificatorum] ... p. 261 ... et cito liberabitur et copiose minget.

9. pp. 261-274 Johannes de Rupescissa, Liber lucis

p. 261 Divinum opus doctissimi et sapientissimi Raymundi lugli quod de arte alchemie liber lucis dicitur ... Consideravi tribulationes electorum ... p. 274 ... a tirannis crudelibus futuris puniendis a domino nostro yhesu christo. Raimundi doctissimi et sanctissimi de arte alchimie liber feliciter explicit ... 

10. pp. 274-275 'Secretum expertissimum ad faciendum cum herbis lunam perfectam', with receipt

11. pp. 275-276 Latin verse and prose

12. p. 276 Drawing of a furnace

13. pp. 277-279 Index to De venenis

14. pp. 279-282, then ff. 1r-15v Peter of Abano, De venenis, with additional text in other hands on f. 8r-v

p. 279 Reverendissimo in christo patri et domino domino divina providentia summo pontifici Petrus de Abbano ....

1 volume 282 pp. + 15 folios. 8vo. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. On vellum. Modern stamped morocco binding. Some leaves are wanting between p. 258 and p. 259, as noted by the early 16th cent. owner who added the pagination.  The text on p. 76 has almost entirely faded, and in other passages the original text has been written over and partly restored by the same 16th cent. hand. Written in a small current humanistic hand, 39 lines to a page. Some headings in red-mostly faded. On pp. 121, 126, 175 are small pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus, and on p. 276 a larger wash-drawing of a furnace ('stufa sicca et furnus philosophorum'). Last unpaginated leaf verso: tiriaca est a medicis appellata.

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Collection of short alchemical works, including De consideratione quintae essentiae by John of Rupecissa. (Miscellanea Alchemica XV)

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Le lapidaire du quatorzième siècle : Description des pierres précieuses et de leurs vertus magiques / d'après le traité du chevalier Jean de Mandeville, avec note, commentaires et un apendice sur les caractères physiques des pierres précieues ... par Is. del Sotto.

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