Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.766

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.766
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.766
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.766
    • Wellcome Library, MS.766
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1500
  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 20 leaves + ff. 2-237 + 6 leaves 8vo. 131/2 x 101/2 cm. Original half-sheepskin binding over wooden boards. Two leaves are wanting after the 10th preliminary leaf, and foleave 1 of the main text. Margins cropped in binding. There is a vellum fly-leaf at each end: both are slightly damaged.

Notes

Data Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections

  • Arzneibuch: including a Herbal and a Distillatory.

    Written in a small current script by several contemporary hands. Headings and paragraph marks in red, some in green ink.

    The first preliminary leaf contains medical receipts in German.

    Leaves 2-10 'Zuo lob und zuo er der aller reinigsten und vermayligsten Jungkfraw Maria heben sich an etlich lob gesangk in irrem nommen'. Verses in German in honour of the Virgin Mary.

    11, 12 Similar verses in 107 lines, the beginning wanting, and written by a different hand. It ends: So mein hertz bricht / mein mundt nichs spricht Maria zeig dein lieblich gesiecht. Fiat. Fiat. Amen.

    Leaf 13 'Ach got wem sall ichs klagen', and other verses.

    14 Latin hymn to St. Francis, with musical notation: beginning 'Salue sanctissime confessor dei ac Vexillifer ihesu', and ending 'O pie o misericors pater sancte francisce'.

    Leaves 15-20 Receipts in Latin for herbal syrups.

    Fol. 2-4 On urines.

    5-8 Blood letting.

    9-14 Plague remedies.

    14v-19 Prognostics.

    20-132 Receipts for diseases in systematic order. Among these are:

    - 34-36. Von mall froncosenn. [Syphilis].

    - 106v-110. Von krangheyten sprochen und von haymlighayt der frawen.

    - 110v-119. Wundarzneibuch.

    - 119v-132. De unguentis, etc.

    132v-177 Incipit tistillarius [sic] aquarum multarum: in German containing 223 'waters'.

    178-299 Incipit herbarius de diuersis herbis et radicibus. Item ein endt hat das piechl der aus prenten wasseren... This contains 281 entries.

    300-309 Von etlichen oll.

    310-312 Incipit registrum de diuersis infirmitatibus.

    313-325 Incipit vocabularius super istud libellum. A Latin-German glossary, in double column.

    326, 327r Blank.

    Fol. 327v Medical weights.

    The first two unfoliated leaves at the end contain a 'Registrum seu inuentarium materie in hoc libello contente', folowed by 2 ll. of receipts. The last 3 ll. contain notes on 'Urina' 'Lac', 'Stercus', 'Sanguis', by the original scribe. Both fly-leaves contain medical receipts, etc. in German.

    On the recto of the end leaf is the name 'Frater Panchratius de Hallis': above this are four contracted words which could possibly be expanded into 'Sui in Monasterio Brunne [Brünn]'. [Franciscans?].

  • On fol. 4 and fol. 14 are the signatures in red ink of 'Frater Dominicus de Swatz' and another in black on fol. 297. This person may be the compiler of the MS., and possibly a Monk from a Monastery in the Tyrol as suggested by the entry in the Dietrichstein Sale Catalogue.
  • Purchased at Lucerne: Dietrichstein Sale 22/11/1933, Lot 504.

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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