MS. Bodl. 179
Summary Catalogue no.: 2074
Contents
, Le Regime de sante
Rubric: ... ⟨le⟩ liure qui traite de Phisique & ses parties et comme on doit garder corps domme aussi bien le sain comme le malade
Incipit: (preface) Tous les acteurs qui oncques traitterent
Incipit: (text) Dieu qui par sa grant puissance
In nine parts with a preface, and preceded by a list of all the chapters and of the 716 recipes which follow the treatise at fol. 112. At end is 'Explicit Neupmen' with flourishes. Pieces of foll. 37, 65 have been roughly torn off, injuring the text.
Language(s): Old French
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ix + 194 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 11.625 × 8.625 in.
Condition
Injured in a few places and stained.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Made for John Fastolf (d. 1459): his arms quarterly or and azure, over all a bend gules, and motto 'Me fault fayre'; 'Lybere morigero Iohanni Fastolffe', late 15th cent., end inner cover.
Probably acquired about 1620–25.
Record Sources
Description adapted (April 2020) from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I (1966), no. 676 [decoration, origin, date]
Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance and acquisition]
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-05-04: Description revised to incorporate all information in SC.