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MS. Canon. Misc. 116

Summary Catalogue no.: 19592

Medical compilation; Italy (Padua), 1463

Contents

Language(s): Latin

1. (fol. 1r)
Rubric: Carmina Egidii de pulsibus cum comento
Commentary on Giles de Corbeil, De pulsibus
Incipit: Quatuor sunt membra principalia
2. (fol. 35r)
Rubric: Carmina Egidi Romani de urinis cum commento ejusdem
Commentary on Giles de Corbeil, De urinis
Incipit: In libro isto auctor iste intendens doctrinam tradere
3. (fol. 84v)
On urines
Rubric: Modus judicandi urinas feliciter incipit
Incipit: Iste est modus judicandi urinas, unde sic est procedendum, primo de colore

eTK 0785K

4. (fol. 86v)
Verses on the Zodiac
Rubric: Signa supercelestia in hec inferiora influunt, quod istis carminibus declaratur
Incipit: Aries igneus : Nil capiti facias aries cum luna refulget
Explicit: Ambris contemptus epilencus essit ab illo
Final rubric: Et sic est finis

36 verses; Walther 11780

5. (fols. 87r-111v)
Medical compilation
Incipit: Virtus medicine est ponenda[sic] naturalis, quia ipsa medicina corpori humano interius vel exterius applicata ipsum habet permutare ad aliquam qualitatem. Hec autem virtus est quadruplex […] quarum prima vocatur complexio
Rubric: Capitulum primum huius libelli de medicinis distemperatis

Capitula covering fols. 88r-99r, followed by 'Temperata et primo de herbis'.

Rubric: (fol. 91v) Explicit de gradibus incipit 2us tractatus de uirtutibus medicinarum […]
Rubric: (fol. 99v) Incipit tractatus de rebus ex quibus conficiuntur medicine que in antidotario sunt reperte
Rubric: (fol. 101r) Explicit de uirtutibus simplicium quibus utimur. Incipit de uirtutibus medicinarum que sunt in antidotario […]
Explicit: non super locum unde exit, sed circa locum: Deo laudes: Amen

Listed eTK 1700L as Mundinus de Foro Iulio, De accidentibus, but the eTK entry appears to combine a number of different texts, while the attribution seems to derive from a misreading of the printed catalogue for Vatican Library, Vat. lat. 10213 (M. Vattasso and H. Carusi, Rome, 1914, pp. 541-3)

6. (fol. 113)
Bartholomaeus de Sancta Sophia, Commentarium in nonum Almansoris
Rubric: Tractatus super Nono Almansoris antiquioris Bartholomei de sancta sophia
Incipit: In nomine Dei misericordis, cujus nutu sermo recipit gratiam et doctrina perfectionem. Demum ordinem Rasis viijo Almansoris in sequendo
Explicit: et similes medicine; et hec sufficiant ad laudem omnipotentis Dei ejusque virginis matris Marie
Colophon: Laus tibi sit Christe. quoniam liber explicit iste. Compilatus per eximium artium et medicine doctorem d. M. Bartholomeum antiquiorem de Sancta Sophia et scriptus ac et complectus per me Franciscum de Eneaxio, Patavum, artium doctorem et medicine, scolarem excellentissimi artium et medicine doctoris d. M. Bartholomei junioris de Sancta Sophia, anno 1463, die xij. Setembris hora xxij. Amen.
7. (fol. 213)
Bartholomaeus de Sancta Sophia, Tractatus de febribus
Rubric: Tractatus de febribus antiquioris Bartholomei de Sancta Sophia
Incipit: Humane nature dignoscitur gloriosum, cum se scire sit, que alta sunt
Explicit: et sic sit finis cure febrium putridarum communiter occurrentium, secundum mei modici intellectus capacitatem sic scienter complectus sit ad laudem omnipotentis Dei ejusque gloriose virginis Marie anno 1412, quando rex Panonium suum in Italiam exercitum missit contra dominum nostrum Venetorum die dominico xxvij. Decembris mensis
Colophon: Et ego Franciscus de Eneaxio hoc opus scripsi et nonis Maii 1463 complevi, ad laudem supradictorum et Sancti Jeronimi ; Amen. Deo Maximo iterum laudes.
8. (fol. 270)
Gentilis de Fulgineo, De vulneribus
Rubric: Gentilis de Fulgineo tractatus de vulneribus
Incipit: Hoc est emplastrum sive unguentum dignum laude, quia mirabiliter operatur
9. (fol. 272)
Averroes, De venenis
Rubric: Opusculum de venenis Aueroys feliciter incipit
Incipit: Omnes species mortiferorum
10. (fol. 274)
Theophilus, De urinis eTK 0393L
Rubric: De urinis a voce Theophili
Incipit: De urinarum differentia negocium
Colophon: Explicit liber urinarum a voce Theophili; ad laudem Dei omnipotentis et beate virginis, et sic est finis.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: 292 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 213 × 110 mm.

Layout

1 col., 42 lines; 162 × 60 mm.

Hand(s)

Written by Franciscus de Eneaxio, doctor artium, at Padua in 1463 for his own use, fols. 212v, 284v. For another MS by this scribe see Colophons de mss, ii, no. 4245.

Decoration

Initial. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 609)

Rubrics.

History

Origin: 1463 ; Italian, Padua

Provenance and Acquisition

Fol. 284v: 'Liber mej francisci de aniaxio[sic] artium Doctoris.'

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Description adapted (Sept. 2022) from the following sources, with additional description of art. 5 (fols. 87r-111v).
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 298
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 609
Quarto Catalogue (1854)

Last Substantive Revision

2022-09: Description revised to include all information from printed catalogues.