The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

1. Cent. xiv, 29 lines to a page.
The text of ff.1-6a has been scraped off, and a later list of contents is on f.2.
The text begins abruptly on f.6b: it is a collection of remedies in Southern French, with rubrics in Latin: e.g. (f.120a)
Contra malum oculorum.
Cant hom amal en lueil ecubert louis pren de la razis del fenoil etraine locor e lauala for etraine losuc emesclalo ablouin de tanulgrana aiaj tan de lun can de lautre emet ben els oils cascimior tro q sia guerizs.
Ends f.143a
contra crematuram.

2. In a smaller hand, 25 lines to a page.
f.143b Further receipts at first in Latin, but on the next page and after in Southern French
Ad fistulam uel crancum(!). Accipe mel coctum et.
Many of these receipts prescribe the writing of charms which are given.
Ends on f.160a imperfectly, f.160b erased.
f.161, a charm-prayer in later hand.
f.162 blank.

3. f.163 Hic incipit pomum ambre et ualet contra cerebri debilitatem
Pomum ambre duplicatum ad reuma etc.
Miscellaneous receipts in Latin.
Ends f.186b: et usui reserua.
Expl. pomum ambre. deo gratias. Amen.

4. A quire of paper with part of an Index (xvii, xviii).

5. f.187 Inc. trotula de ornatu mulierum
Cum auctor uniuersitatis deus.
Ends f.210b: et hec de cura sufficiant...
Finite libro reddatur gratia christo. Amen.
f.211 Inc. Epistola quedam bresesdati(!) philosophi
Inc. epistola quedam bins ascari . philosophi. Ascaritanus philosophus scripsit hanc epistolam etc.
Ends f.220a: lauetur utendum est.
Expl. trotula.

6. f.221 Inc. tract, de secretis mulierum cum aliis
Reumatizat flegma. ad nares frequencius.
Ends f.228b with a charm to stanch blood:
Dominus Ihesus postquam fuit natus
ante fuit unctus quam lauatus
unctus et unctus et de lancea fuit punctus
longinus miles punxit dominum et dixit
sta sanguis et stet sanguis de homine
isto petro uel giraldo filio talis · n · patris
in nomine patres etc.

7. In a pretty hand of cent. xii, xiii, 34 lines to a page.
f.229 Receipts in Latin, without heading
Oleum in quo cocta est primaueris facit cutem extensam.
Ending imperfectly f.234b.

8. . In a larger, ugly hand (xiv), 27-28 lines to a page.
f.239 Receipts and charms in Latin and Northern French
f.242b blank.

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