Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.730

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.730
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.730
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.730
    • Wellcome Library, MS.730
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1500
  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 93 leaves 8vo. 171/2 x 12 cm. Original vellum covers. A name has been cut out from the first leaf, which has been repaired: some leaves stained and margins frayed. A leaf or leaves are wanting after fol. 92. On the first leaf a coat of arms in red and black, with floreated decoration lettered J.A.S. On folios 45, 46 are small pen drawings of urine-flasks. The notes of payments on foleave 36 and 68 are made by a certain Lactantio del Zuplia, who on foleave 68 states: 'Ricordo como io lactantio del zuplia comenzai andare a la botega de maestro maria di bernardino seruar...', dated 12 November 1526. The name of one of the main contributors of the extracts is found on foleave 35v where he says: 'Ego autem Jo. Ant. Scandolistius physicus talem facio unctionem et inueni mirabiliter operare'.

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  • Commonplace book, containing extracts and notes from medical treatises

    Contents

    1. ff. 1r-31r Notes and extracts on fevers

    ff. 2r-6r Galen, De differentiis febrium; ff. 10r-15r Rhazes, extracts from Liber divisionum, ff. 15v-20r Averroes, extracts from Colliget; ff. 20v-22r Bartholomew the Englishman, extracts from De proprietatibus rerum; f. 23r Constantine the African, extracts from Viaticum; ff. 24r-27r Avicenna, extracts from 1 Fen 4 Canonis; f.. 27v Letter from the Compiler to his 'Eximie doctor uti frater' on a case of tertian fever; f. 28r Avenzoar, extracts from Liber theisir; ff. 28v-31r Haly Abbas. extracts from Pantegni.

    2. ff. 32r-35r Baptista de Scamonibus, De oleis balsamini

    f. 32r Quoniam verus balsamus est naturalis ... f. 35r ... Et oleum quidem sanis est oleum om fanzinum.

    3. f. 36r-v Notes of payments, in Italian, by a different hand, dated 26 November 1526.

    f. 37r-v blank

    4. ff. 38r-59r Notes on the practice of medicine, pulses, urines, etc.

    5. ff. 60r-66r Peter of Salerno, Tabulae de confortantibus, extract

    f. 60r Incipit Petrus Salernitanus. Quaedam confortant corpus ... f. 66r ... et in pulvere datis mirabiliter operatur. Finis.

    6. ff. 66v-67v Roger of Salerno, Rogerina minor, chapters 1, 2, 3, abbreviated

    f. 66v Quoniam medicina dividitur in theoricam et praticam ...

    7. f. 68r-v Notes of payments in Italian, dated 12 November 1526.

    ff. 69r-70v blank

    8. ff. 71r-78v Averroes, extracts from Colliget on materia medica

    f. 71r Hec sunt que Aueroys confirmat ... f. 78v ...contra dolorem capitis qui fit ex humoribus frigidis et grossis. Hec in 5° colliget.

    9. ff. 79r-84r Miscellaneous medical extracts and notes.

    10. ff. 85r-92v Roger of Salerno, Rogerina minor, continued from f. 67v

    f. 85r Quia teste Avicenna 4ta, pii, c. 1 tria sunt instrumenta medicine ... f. 92v Cura istorum predictorum apostematum est.

  • The inscription on the first leaf apparently states that the MS. was acquired for 25 soldi on March 24, 1520: it is perhaps by the hand of the above-mentioned Lactantio del Zuplia. On fol. 79 another owner has written: 'Die 14 septembris 1613 D. Romanus Serenarius donauit mihi hunc librum. Bramno Santa Maria'. There is an unidentified armorial library stamp on fol. 2.
  • Purchased 1930.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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