Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.305

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- London. Wellcome Collection, MS.305
- London. Wellcome Library, MS.305
- Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.305
- Wellcome Library, MS.305
Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
Date of Origin :
- Mid 14th Century
Composition :
- 1 volume; 56folios folio. 28 x 19 cm. On vellum; 18th cent. vellum binding, with two leather ties. The end is wanting. Margins cropped in binding.

IIIF manifest

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Former owners

Glossae super Viatico [Constantini Africani]. In this MS., wrongly ascribed to Gerardus Cremonensis. Written in double column of 56 lines to a column in a small gothic script. Ornamental initial in red and blue with marginal decoration on fol. 1, other initials in red, headings in red. Fol. 1 (red) Incipiunt Glosule magistri Gerardi cremonensis super viatico. capitulum. 1. de allopicia. col. 1 Cum omnia ex 4 elementis generata a medicis quodam modo sint/cognoscenda... 56v, col. 2 ... betonice/radix quedam est que in india habundat et inde nobis affertur/similis est radice rubee maioris. calida. et sicca... This passage is found on fol. 190v, col. 2, lines 11, 12 in the printed edition of Venice 1505 of the 'Opera' of Gerardus de Solo, who should be more properly called Gerardus Bituricensis. Some marginal notes by contemporary and 15th cent. hand.
Inside the cover 'R[obert] Richadson canonicus Lincolniensis 1763'. [1732-1781]. Below is the armorial book-plate of William John Mercer.
Purchased 1931.

Database description transcribed from 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).