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Biblissima authority file: https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q149800
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1. f. 2r Illustration of a vein man, with explanatory text
2. f. 2v Astrological chart
3. ff. 3r-4r Commentary on the five opening lines of the Carmina de urinis of Gilles de Corbeil
Incipit: 'Dictur urina quum sit renibus una....'
Explicit: ' ad mediam regionem urine uel suppremam'.
4. f. 4r-v Recipe for ulcers
Incipit: 'Pocio probata per magistrum galterum de M contra uulcera noua et uetera...'
Explicit: '...et in lacte dulci coquitur et tepida explicetur. Hoc emplastrum optimum esse probatur.'
5. ff. 5r-12v Johannes de Sancto Paulo, Flores dietarum
Incipit: 'Corpus nostrum ex iiii constat humoribus...'
Explicit: ' qui tibi donet gratiam sue misericordie et ueniam peccatorum qui sit benedictus in secula seculorum amen'.
6. ff. 13r-34 Matthaeus Platearius, Circa instans
Incipit: 'Circa instans negocium in simplicibus medicinis...'
Explicit: '...iam lasso pollice sistat opus. Explicit liber platearii de singulari et simplici medicina.'
On Matthaeus Platearius's Circa instans see Frank J. Anderson, An Illustrated History of the Herbals (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), pp. 45-50; and Minta Collins, Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions (London: The British Library, 2000), pp. 239, 243, 285-286, 298, 307-308.
Begins: 'De dolore capitis'
Ends :'De duricie splenis'.
8. f. 34v Medical receipts
9. ff. 35r-56 Glossulae quatuor magistrorum edited by Guido Aretinus, abbreviated
Incipit: 'Sicut dicit constantinus humores temperamentum exeuntes faciunt causam morbi...'
Explicit (f. 55r): '...quoniam comedere semel nocet eis sicut dict auicenna. Explicit'. [Followed by a further portion of the work, which had been omitted by the scribe at fol. 54v, line 52: it is marked with a sign -o- at beginning and end].
8. ff. 56r-65r Nicholas of Salerno, Antidotarium
Incipit: 'Ego nicolaus rogatus a quibusdam in practica medicina studere uolentibus...'
Explicit: '...copiam nummorum et amicorum plenitudine glorientur'.
9. ff. 65r-66v Serapion Junior, Libri aggregationum, incomplete
Incipit: 'Postquam uidi librum dyascoridis et librum G. in medicinis simplicibus... '
Ends imperfectly: ' immutando. in primum. et immutacio medicine curauit'.
10. ff. 67r-69r Otho Candidus, Constitutiones, incomplete
Incipit: 'Incipiunt constitutiones Otonis Quoniam decet domui domini sanctitudo...'
Ends imperfectly: '...decreuimus fore priuatum'.
11. ff. 69r-78v Ottobonus, Constitutiones, incomplete
Incipit: Statuta uenerabilis patris in christo Domini Ottoboni Sancti Adriani diaconi cardinalis Apostolice sedis in Anglia legati pupplicata in generali concilio eiusdem legati in ecclesia Sancti Pauli Londonie. Mense aprilis die lune proxima ante diem Sancti Marci Evangeliste Anno domini MoCCmo sexagesimo octauo. [O]ttobonus apostolice sedis legatus miseracione diuina Sancti Adriani diaconus '
Ends imperfectly: ' de excommunicato capiendo denegetur cum regulis [?] contingat inde [?] '
12. f. 79r Receipt
Begins: 'Confectio pulueris sine pauore, gallice sains peur...'
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