Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.679

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.679
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.679
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.679
    • Wellcome Library, MS.679
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
  • Date of Origin :
    • Mid 14th Century
  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 36 leaves folio. 31 x 27 cm. On vellum, modern half vellum binding. Upper margins throughout damaged by damp, and roughly repaired.

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  • Liber divisonum, Antidotarium, Synonima: translated by Gerardus Cremonensis.

    Written in double column of 56 lines to a column, in a neat gothic hand, probably of Italian origin. Large decorated initials in colours on fol. 1, fol. 12, fol. 27v: other ornamental initials and paragraphs marks in alternate blue and red: headings in red.

    Fol. 1 (red) Incipit liber diuisionum rasys, prologus.//UERBA [ABUBETRI]/filii zacharie [arazi] ventilata/fuit in presentia cuiusdam probi ui/ri... line 15 (red) Explicit prologus. Capitulum primum de alopitia. 12, col. 2, line 47 (red)...Expletus est tractatus nonus./Incipit tractatus .X.us de febribus.//FEBRICITANTES//ET PRECIPUE//acute non solum necess est... 27v, col. 1, line 38 ...que eradicant/pannum delent uestigia earum. (red) Incipit antidotarium rasis al/bubetri filii zaccarie arazi. DIXI IN HOC ME/O LIBRO MEDI/cinas quarum necessitas est... col. 2, line 36 (Text begins) Confectio tincture denigrantis capillos... 33, col. 2, line 30 (End)...in uino stiptico/aut oleo rosato, sedat dolorem usque quod fiat algebra. line 32 (red) Ad doloren capitis./Dolori capitis iuuerit tunc si fuerit... 33v (End) ...et post hoc pone super ipsum/unguentum carnis generatorum. Synonima: written in 7 columns. 34 [Two lines wanting]...et fuerit in/membris omnibus et precipue in/oculis et cito recedunt./Alasef id est nodi qui fuerint in collo/in gutta et sub ascillis et/inguibus./... 36v (End) z ubd./Radix mandragore./z ufferaf.

  • The last work has also been attributed to Mescue and to Seraption. The lines beginning 'Ad dolorem captitis' on fol. 33, are entered separately by Thorndike in his Catalogue of Incipits col. 217, as anonymous.
  • These works by Rhazes were first printed at Milan in 1481.
  • Purchased 1931.

Bibliography

  • 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).

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