Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.547

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    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.547
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.547
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.547
    • Wellcome Library, MS.547
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  • Date of Origin :
    • 14th Century
  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 307 leaves 4to. 20 1/2 x 14 cm. On vellum: 18th century quarter calf binding over wooden boards: back-strip damaged. Nos. 2, 4, and the last work are incomplete. Ff. 62, 63, 72, 98 are slightly defective: the first and last leaves stained and rubbed. Between foleave 98 and foleave 99 is a contemporary inserted vellum slipage There are three main scripts, and two others.

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  • Contents

    1. ff. 1r-53v Rhazes, Liber divisionum

    Title: 'Incipiunt [diuisiones rasis]]'

    Incipit: 'U[entilata in presentia] cuiusdam [uiri probi rememo] ratio diuisionum...'

    Explicit: '...et medicine que eradicant pannum. Expliciunt diuisiones RASIS'.

    f. 54r-v blank

    2. ff. 55r-103v Constantine the African, Viaticum, incomplete

    Title: 'Quoniam quidem ut in rethoricis tullius testatum...'.

    Incipit: 'Capillus ex fumo grosso et calido...'

    Explicit: '..ex grauitate et grossitudine descendit ad inferiora et findit manus etc.'

    3. ff. 104r-145v Gilbert the Englishman, Commentary on the De urinis of Gilles de Corbeil

    Incipit: 'Sicut dicit constantinus in pantegni...'

    Explicit: '...residuum sermonis est intellectum. Expliciunt uersus egidii cum comento gilberti. deo gracias.'

    4. ff. 146r-166v Gentile da Foligno, Commentary on the De urinis of Gilles de Corbeil, incomplete

    Incipit: 'Liber iste quem legendum proponimus liber est noue institutionis...'

    Explicit: '...potest fieri resolutio quia nulla resolutio ideo'.

    ff. 167r-168r blank.

    5. ff. 169r-183r Roger of Salerno, Chirurgia parva

    Title: 'Hic incipit parua Rogerina. Assit principio sancta Maria nostro'.

    Incipit: 'Cum artis medicine due sint partes...'

    Explicit: '...nec in eo tempore in quo mulier solet habere menstrua. Explicit parua Rogerina'.

    6. ff. 184r-185v Glossary of herbs in Latin, French and English

    Begins: 'Appalim gallice pelle unde apella...'

    Ends: '...Valeriana frigida idem. Explicit herbarium. Explicit herbrarium'.

    7. ff. 185v-186r Anonymous, Tabula electuariorum

    Begins: 'Electuaria calefacientia sunt hec. Diamargariton...'

    Ends: '...Syrupus violaceus et oxisaccharum'.

    8. ff. 186r-191v John of St. Paul, Flores dietarum

    Incipit: 'Corpus hominis ex iiii humoribus constat...'

    Explicit: '...ex commestione allii et portulacis et casel'

    9. ff. 192r-215v Matthaeus Platearius, Circa instans

    Incipit: 'Circa instans negotium in simplicibus medicinis...'

    Explicit: '...non nocet uero propter diuternam decoctionem. Hic liber est scriptus qui scripsit sit benedictus. Explicit hoc torum pro christo da mihi potum.'

    On Matthaeus Platearius's Circa instans see Frank J. Anderson, An Illustrated History of the Herbals (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), pp. 45-50; and Minta Collins, Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions (London: The British Library, 2000), pp. 239, 243, 285-286, 298, 307-308.

    10. ff. 215v-216r Anonymous, De urtica, in verse

    Incipit: 'Arbitror urticam multum in orbe fore generatam...'

    Explicit: 'Et dessicatum multis erit utile causis'.

    11. ff. 216v-219r Pseudo-Hippocrates, Epizonium

    Incipit: '[E]pizonium ipocratis quod est manifestum ad obseruandum die salutis et mortis...'

    Explicit: '...in eadem finiuit [?] uita [?] ex eadem illa [?] frenentes [?] purgat'

    12. f. 219r Pseudo-Hippocrates, Capsula eburnea, incomplete

    Incipit: '[P]eruenit ad me quod cum ypocras morti appropinquaret...'

    Ends imperfectly: '...et significat quod principio egritudinis'

    ff. 220r-v blank

    13. ff. 221r-252r Anonymous, definitions of difficult Latin, Greek and Arabic medical terms

    Incipit: 'Aer idem quod dius. Arson idem quod ciclamen...'

    Explicit:'...Zuccoraria. N[omen?] in metridato. flos angni [sic] casti. Explicit Liber Iste.'

    14. ff. 252v-253r Nicholas Praepositus, Quid pro quo

    Incipit: 'Pro aristologia ruta domestica...'

    Explicit: '...pro yssopo. Thymum. Explicit quid pro quo.'

    15. ff. 253r-257v Arnold of Villanova, De conferentibus et nocentibus

    Incipit: 'Conferunt cerebro fetida...'

    Explicit: '...Omne iuuans ventosum. Explicit tractatus do conferentibus et nociuis.

    16. ff. 257v-258v Notes on medical weights and measures, receipts, etc.

    f. 259r-v blank.

    17. ff. 260r-263r, alphabetical list of herbs, with synonyms

    Begins: 'Amarusca. anglice maathe...'

    Ends: 'Christiana...et inde paruuli stipites exeuntes. Expliciunt nomina Herbarum.'

    18. ff. 263r-266r Trotula, De ornatu mulierum

    Monica Green has identified this as one of the texts which made up the "Trotula Ensemble", although it is not mentioned in her articles "A Handlist of the Latin and Vernacular Manuscripts of the So-Called Trotula Texts. Part I: The Latin Manuscripts" and "Part II: The Vernacular Texts and Latin Re-Writings", Scriptorium 50 (1996), pp 137-175, 51 (1997), pp 80-104 (email communication, 19 Jan 2009)

    Incipit: 'Ut mulier suauissima et planissima videatur...'

    Explicit: '...ad virum secure attendat etc. Hec de ornatu mulierum dicta sufficiant. Explicit Liber. De Ornatu. mulierum. Secundum Galienum.'

    19. ff. 266v-280v Lanfranc of Milan, Chirurgia parva

    Incipit: 'Intendens uenerabilis amiee bernarde....'

    Explicit: '...succus malorum macianorum. 1. de bosto.'

    20. ff. 280v-297r Rhazes, De doloribus juncturarum

    Incipit: 'Dixit rases uolo in hoc capitulo dicere medicins...'

    Explicit: '...accipe ceruse. 3 . 1. cuforbii. 3. 1. oleum quod sufficit. confice.'

    21. ff. 297r-307r Anonymous, Experimenta

    Incipit: 'Dixit Galienus. Ignis qui descendit super altare...'

    Explicit: '...donec remaneat libra. 1. cola.'

    For a discussion of the 'Experimenta' of 'Galen' or Rasis, see Thorndike A History of Magic and Experimental Science Vol. II pp. 751 et seq.

  • Pasted inside the upper cover is the armorial book-plate of T. Beale M. A. on which is written: 'Edoardus Hanford de Woolershill' in Agro Wicciensi Armiger Qui obiit 15 Men. Anno Domini 1766, olim D. D.'
  • Purchased 1910.

Bibliography

  • Eimas, Richard. Heirs to Hippocrates: The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books in the Hardin Library of Health Sciences, the University of Iowa (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990), p. 16.

    Getz, Faye. 'Medical Education in Later Medieval England', The History of Medical Education in Britain ed. Nutton, Vivian and Porter, Roy (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA.: Rodopi B. V., 1995), p. 92 n. 62.

    Getz, Faye. Medicine in the English Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), p. 129 n. 19.

    Kibre, Pearl. 'Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic Writings in the Latin Middle Ages [V]' Traditio 35 (1979). p. 292.

    Nicoud. Marilyn. Les régimes de santé au Moyen Âge: naissance et diffusion d'une écriture médicale, XIIIe-XVe siècle, Volume 1 (Rome: Ecole francaise de Rome, 2007), p. 37

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