Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.508

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.508
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.508
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.508
    • Wellcome Library, MS.508
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1451
  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 254 folios 4to. 21 x 15 1/2 cm. Original red sheepskin binding over wooden boards, with five brass bosses on each cover, and two metal and leather clasps, one wanting. There are vellum fly-leaves pasted down inside the upperand lower covers form a 14th century Psalter. Some leave are wanting at the biginning, perhaps 9. A leaf has been cut out after folios 33r, 41r, 63r. Written by several contemporary hands. On foleave 64 is a large initial P in red which has been badly rubbed. Other ornamental capitals, paragraph marks, headings and underlinings in red. Ff. 1r, 5r, 6r, 15v, 51v, 59v contain pen-drawn astronomical figures in red and black. On foleave 57v is a drawing of the 'Blood-letting Man' also in red and black. Ff. 9r, 11r, 16-20 contain Tables in red and black. On foleave 60v is a figure made up of circles, which may be a decoration. The 'Lumen animae' has its own foliation 1-117 in red: a new foliation 1-254 has been added in pencil, beginning at the frist leaf of text in the MS.

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  • Computistical and medical miscellany

    Contents

    1. ff. 1r-15r Computistical treatise, in German, beginning wanting

    f. 1r Aber ist ze wissen daz umb die obresten spere gant ain gurtel ... f. 15r ... und also hat der kalenddar ain end in dem klug sin beschlossen sind der gemacht ist dez jars do man zalt vom christigepurt 1404. Zuo dienst und zuo lieb und durch petwillen etlich meiner gnadige hern und ouch etlich meiner guter frund und gesellen willen. Sequens figura intersallit etc.

    2. ff. 16r-21v Calendar

    f. 16r Januarius haber 31 dies ...

    3. f. 22r Zodiacal table

    4. ff. 22v-27r On the signs of the zodiac

    5. ff. 27v-32v On the planets, etc.

    f. 32v Explicit per me hainricum henglar dysnia Anno domini 1451 in festo quirini hora vesperarum.

    6. ff. 34r-52v John of Erfurt, Computus chirometralis, with commentary

    f. 34r Congnitio veritatis de pausis temporum circa motum solis et lune ... f. 52v ... Et primum est ubi zodiacus maxime elevatur.

    ff. 53r-55r blank

    7. ff. 56r-v Anonymous, Calendarium sanitatis, in verse

    f. 56r In iano claris calidis quoque cibis pociaris ... f. 56v ... Sit tepidus potus post frigorem grandia totus etc.

    8. f. 57r Sequitur nunc de microcosmo, in verse

    f. 57r Ut celum signis perfulgens est duo denis ... Piscibus sic demum congruit apta pedibus, etc.

    9. ff. 57r-61v Directions for bloodletting

    f. 57r line 16 Nota in qua parte fuerit corporis fuerit dolor ... f. 61v Est tibi sanguis non sit ribi dubius etc.

    10. ff. 61v-63v Alphabetical interpreation of dreams

    f. 61v Arbores sians videas negocium depone ... f. 63v Serpentes occidere inimicos separate.

    11. ff. 64r-178v Lumen animae minor

    f. 64r De Superbia. Philosophus in sexto libro animalium dicit in cunctis quidem mortuis pectus alcius solyto elevatur ... f. 178r ... huc usque de diversis applicationibus naturalibus morali busque dicta sufficiant. Deogracias etc ... De superbia ... f. 178v 115. De venustate vitanda.

    ff. 179r-v blank

    12. f. 180r Notes of expenses in German dated 1634

    ff. 180v-224v blank

    13. ff. 225r-226r Latin quotations by an early 16th century hand

    14. ff. 227r-228r Proverbs

    f. 227r Incipit inuentum quod fert proverbia centum. Deo servare qui regnare docet regem discere legem ... f. 228r Hic sinus iusticie radiat splendor que sophie.

    ff. 228v-254v blank

  • Purchased 1936.

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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