The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.8.31
Manuscript Title

Medical Miscellany etc

Alternative Title

Medica etc

James Number 1406
Century 15th
Physical Description

Several volumes, in various hands.

Provenance

Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. Marked C. 48. No. 179.

Second Folio parte sua
Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 22 x 15.5
Folio cir. 200 ff. + flyleaves.
Material Paper
Language Middle English
Collation

In quires of 8.

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Contents

The flyleaves of vellum at beginning are from a larger book and have on them a table of contents of cent. xv.
In hoc uol. continentur.
Liber phisicorum.]
Methaphisica. ]Auicenne.
Sextus naturalium S. de anima.]
Item logica.
Musica m. J. de muris.
Conclusiones astrolabii.
Perspectiua. ]
De legibus multiplicacionum. ] bacon.
Algorismus fraccionum versificatus cum aliis notabilibus astronomicis.

On another flyleaf is a table of contents to this volume in a xvth cent. hand like that found in Roger Marchall's books at Peterhouse, Gonville and Caius and elsewhere.

I. f.1 1. Henrici de Amonda Villa Chirurgica.
Hic inc. prohemium particulare ad secundum tract. cirurgie mag. Henr. de Amonda uilla illmi dni regis Francorum cirurgici.
Postquam completus est primus tractatus.
Ends (de cancro): incredibilia operantur (f.63b).
f.64 blank.
f.65 2. Hic inc. antidotarius Henr. de Armonda villa
Capitula.
Text. Ad experientiam pleniorem.
-antidotarii sufficiant hec nunc dicta.
Expl. Antid. sec. H. de Armanda villa.
f.106 3. Receipts
Confeccio nostri ruptorii.
ff.108b-ll2 blank.
On f.112b partly erased
Iste liber constat Johanni ...(? Somerset) medicine lond.

II. f.113 1. Anothomia Ricardi
Quoniam membrorum humani corporis.
f.120 2. Morborum definitiones

III. f.127 1. Liber serapionis aggregatus in medicinis. Translacio Simonis Januensis in tempore (interprete) Habraham Iudeo Tortuosiensi de arabico in latinum
Postquam uidi librum.
f.132b 2. Reductio sciencie astronomie ad medicinalem facultatem
Quoniam secundum sapientes
-in tempore confeccionis medicine.
This tract is continued in another hand on ff.162-165b.
f.134 3. Cirurgia
In primo Cirurgia est considerare et inquirere.
It appears to degenerate into miscellaneous receipts.
On f.159b is one in English. For to make metheglyn.
Ends with verses on the four temperaments f.160.
Two blank leaves follow.

IV. f.162a 1. Continuation of III.3
Medical tracts without titles follow.
f.165b 2. O medice accedens
f.168 3. Quoniam quidem de melioribus
f.170b 4. Tract. de planetis
Cum lima comburitur.
f.171b 5. Tabula Mag. Arnaldi de Villa noua
(The foliation here is incorrect.)
f.173(176) 6. Inc. liber urinarum Mag. Guilelmi astronomi anglici ciuis Massiliensis medicine professoris
Ne ignorancie uel pocius inuidie.

V. f.176(179) A book of receipts in an extremely difficult and contracted hand, perhaps that described in the old table as Quedam excerpta de antidotario Nicholai

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