The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

A Table of contents of cent xv on the flyleaf.

I. Cent. xiv.
1. Servitor Serapionis [in the Latin translation of Simon Januensis]
f.1 Liber ingeniosus octauus libri seruitoris bulcasin ben chelff ben abes azarui tran(s)latus a simone ianuensi interprete abraham iudeo tortuensi
Table of chapters 1
f.5b Text. Dixit aggregator huius operis
Ends f.50, cum facilitate et serua. Deo gracias Amen.
Completus est liber 28 ^us magistri raxis seruitoris de preparatione medicinarum simplicium secundum necessitatem in compositis medicinis quem scripsit Wiglelmus Palmer in ciuitate lucana in tempore quo dominus noster Urbanus vi fuit in dicta ciuitate a. n. d. m. ccc. lxxxvij. die xx may. in apotega Johannis sercambii aromatarius meus tamquam consanguineum deo gracias. Amen.

II. Cent. xiii late.
f.1 1. Tabula Salernitana cum commento Bernardi prouincialis
Primo pabulo salis medicinalis.
Ends f.34 facimus feliciter hic stagrare.
Expl. Comm. B. prouinc. super tabulas magistri Salernitani.
f.34 2. Inc. liber Platearii de simplicibus medicinis
Circa instans.
Ends f.107: illud concludimus.
Hactenus archanum salerni diximus · littera iam lasso
pollice sistit opus.
Expl. lib. Plat. de singulari et simpl. med.
Hic liber est scriptus qui scripsit sit benedictus. Amen.

III. Cent. xiii.
1. Receipts in French verse, 3 columns on a page, beginning imperfectly
Flur de furment dunt ne pernez
E en bele ewe la me quisez
E tantet Ie facez buillir
Quil se uoille en semble tenir.
The last is
A febre ague.
Ending f.3a
Pur la souur kom deit oster
E les pores des estuper
E faire la suur issir
Ki einz ne poeit hors uenir.
Receipts in prose, in French, follow.
f.3b 2. Epistola Aristotelis regi magno Alexandra de obseruacione humani corporis directa quam Ioh. yspan. inuentam T. yspaniarum transmisit
It is a short extract from the Secreta Secretorum ending on f.50 with some verses
Hoc opus egregium regi princeps medicorum.
A receipt and a charm follow: the latter begins
Dixit Scanctus Nazarenus eamus · dixit sancta tecla eamus. Dixit sancta mac'la non eamus sed deleamus de oculo famule/i tui etc.
On f.5b are receipts French and Latin in other hands.
f.6. 3. Incipiunt medicine
Homo de humo f(r)actus ex IIII^or humoribus.
This collection of receipts continues to f.19b and ends the volume.

Hunt, T., Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England : introduction and texts (Cambridge, 1990)

Robinson, P., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1988), no. 386, pl. 172 [dated 1387, written at Lucca]