MS. Digby 197

Summary Catalogue no.: 1798

Medicine (Salernitan texts, etc.); England, 13th century, beginning

Language(s): Latin, with notes in Middle English (15th century) throughout

1. (fol. 1)

Johannes de Sancto Paulo, Flores dietarum

Incipit: Corpus hominis ex quatuor constat hu⟨moribus⟩

Explicit: et omnem putredinem mundificat et ventrem solvit, et ita Explicit

eTK 0269A

2. (fol. 4v)

Matthaeus Platearius (?), De simplicibus medicinae

Incipit: Circa instans negocium in simplicibus medicinis nostrum versatur propositum

eTK 0211C

3. (fol. 34)

Matthaeus Platearius (?), Commentary on Antidotarium Nicholai

Incipit: Liber iste quem in presenciarum legendum assumpsimus

Ends in Yera Ruffini, due to loss of a leaf.

eTK 0821H

4. (fol. 57)

'Ferrarius Salernitanus', Febres

Incipit: Febris, ut testatur Jo⟨annitius⟩, est calor innaturalis

Explicit: in qua bulierint ar. dragma (?) liquir. et succua ejus

Final rubric: Expliciunt febres M. Ferrarii feliciter

eTK 0553B, 0553C. Pr. P. Giacosa, Magistri Salernitani nondum editi (1901), 1-64. Attributed in other manuscripts to Gilbertus Anglicus.

5. (fol. 69)

Gerard of Montpellier (?), De modo medendi (extract)

Rubric: Liber de catarticis dandis

Incipit: Cum omnis sciencia ex fine et utilitate sua naturaliter sit appetenda

Explicit: De laxativis hec sufficiant medicinis. Explicit

eTK 0327K, also attributed to Gerard of Cremona; Watson's identification (eTK 0327I) is incorrect.

6. (fol. 83r-v)

De anatomia

Incipit: Sicut asserit Galienus duplex est anathomia, vivorum scil. et mortuorum

eTK 1480J

(fol. 84r-v)

Phlebotomy

Incipit: Inquisitiones venarum sunt multe

eTK 0746I

(fol. 84v)

Recipe

Rubric: Aqua imperialis contra pestilenciam

Added, 15th century. Not in eTK.

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: Radix

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 2 (medieval endleaves) + 84 + 1 (medieval endleaf) + ii leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 205 mm.

Foliation: i-iv, 1-87 (fols. i-iv, 86-7 foliated July 2022)

Layout

2 cols., 39 lines; written above top line; ruled space 220 × 155 mm.

Decoration

Penwork.

Binding

Standard binding of the Digby collection.

History

Origin: 13th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

'Burgeis', fol. 1; pen-trials, fol. 85r.

Thomas Allen, MS. 18 in folio; Digby/Allen inventory A.16.

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

Record Sources

Description adapted by Matthew Holford (July 2022) from the following sources, with reference to other published literature as cited.

Quarto Catalogue (W. D. Macray, Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues IX: Digby Manuscripts (1883), repr. with addenda by R. W. Hunt and A. G. Watson, 1999)

B. Barker-Benfield, concordance and addenda to Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford (1974)

Quarto Catalogue, col. 218

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 90

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 75

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2022-07: Description revised to include all information in Quarto catalogue.

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