Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.208

Other Form of the Shelfmark :
- London. Wellcome Collection, MS.208
- London. Wellcome Library, MS.208
- Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.208
- Wellcome Library, MS.208
Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
Date of Origin :
- Mid 14th Century
Composition :
- 1 volume; 37 leaves 4to. 25 x 17 cm. On vellum. Calf binding over wooden boards damaged; clasp wanting. Leaves are wanting after folios 8, 11, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 26, 28, 31, 33, 36: foleave 27 is mutiliated, some leaves are stained and cockled.

Notes

Written in a neat gothic hand, in double column of 43 lines to a column. Ornamental initial in red, green and yellow on fol. 1: other capitals, headings, and paragraph marks in red. Fol. 1, col. 1 (red) Incipit liber uiatici Constantini/africani monachi montis cascini. /Quoniam quidem in theoricis [sic]/ait tullius... 37v concule marine incense cum oleo/rosato multum vale[nt] etc./ Explicit liber viatici Constantini/affricani. /finito libro sit laus et gloria christo. /Amen. Below the end of the text is a 6 line receipt for 'Unguentum alabastrum', by a different but perhaps contemporary hand. There is also another for 'Pille que sine custodia possunt recipi' by an early 15th cent. hand. Below this, added by a later 15th cent. hand, 'Vide antonium guarnerium in tractatu de peste que plurima optima sunt'.
Purchased 1928.

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).