A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Add. A. 10

Summary Catalogue no.: 24731

Physical Description

Made up of three manuscripts.
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 109 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 6.875 × 5.75 in.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

The whole volume is annotated in more than one 16th cent. Italian hand: on fol. 8ov are notes of 1562-4 by 'Jo. Fr. Unto da Fuligno' that he entered on office on March 1, 1562, the secondo priore being 'Ludovico figlolo di Seuerino di Carlo', etc., and on March 23 proposed 'Nichola di Bartolomeo Vitellischo' as member of the Council (at Foligno ?), etc.

Gugliemo Libri, his sale at Sotheby's March 28-April 4, 1859: Catalogue of the ... collection of Splendid Manuscripts ... formed by M. Guglielmo Libri no. 609*.

MS. Add. A. 10 - part A (upper text)

Contents

Language(s): Italian

(fol. 1)
Medical treatise
Rubric: […] Questo libra sie tracto di molti phylosophy, giudei greci & latinj, el quale e tracto duno libro chiamato El Thesoro, e generalmente tinsegnia ogni cura in physica & in cerugihca […]

Especially about letting blood: two tables of contents precede: the text beg., after a letter from Hippocrates to the emperor Augustus (!)

Incipit: (fol. 5) Prima e aquisita et humorj di sangue

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century ; Italy

MS. Add. A. 10 - part A (lower text)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Gospel of St Mark (?)

Parts of this MS. are palimpsest, e.g. fols. 56-7, 62-3, seem to contain part of St. Mark's Gospel in Latin.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 11th century (?)

MS. Add. A. 10 - part B

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 64)
Antidotarium Nicholai
Incipit: (preface) Ego Nicolaus rogatus a quibusdam
Incipit: (text) Aurea dicta est ab auro. Alexandrina ab Alexandro

There is no title given; a list of lemmata precedes; ends, some leaves being lost in 'Theriaca', with 'decoctione lilifagi.'

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century, second half

MS. Add. A. 10 - part C

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 81)
Medical and other recipes
Incipit: Ad corodendos poros & uerucas & malas carnes. Aquam de capitello

Fols. 80-81, 106-7, bear 15th cent. notes.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century, late

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (May 2022) from the Summary Catalogue (1905).

Last Substantive Revision

2022-05: Description revised to include all information in Summary Catalogue.