MS. Laud Misc. 617

Summary Catalogue no.: 877

Medicine; Italy, 15th century (partly 1461)

Language(s): Latin

1. (fol. 1)

Medical treatise and extracts (consilia extracted from Antonius Cermisonus (in particular), Bartholomaeus Montagna, and others)

Incipit: Contra cronicum dolorem capitis per essentiam, et colligamus ex vaporibus ex stomacho

Explicit: omnia dicta medicamina bulire faciat in vino nigro stiptico decoctionis mirabole Indorum, que sunt pro locione vel locionibus: An. Cer. Deo Gratias.

Final rubric: Et in hoc terminantur letitiora concilia excellentissimi ac famosissimi arcium et medicine doctoris M. An. Cer. ad laudem Omnipotentis Dei ejusque Virginis et matris Marie totiusque curie celestis triumphantis, Amen. Deo gracias, semper

eTK 0260K, citing another copy in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Latin 1395

2. (fol. 190v)

Rubric: Sequuntur hic aliqui canones curationem. servandi in administratione medicinarum, qui canones summus medicine professor dominus M. Anthonius Cermisonus Patavinus

Extracts from Avicenna, Mesue, etc.

3. (fols. 194)

Guillelmus de Varignana, Practica (extract)

Rubric: Incipiunt nucleata ex Practica Guilhelmi de Varingana super singulis membrorum dispositionibus, etc

Incipit: Denigrat capillos

4. (fol. 199)

Bernard de Gordon, Lilium medicinae (extract)

Rubric: Sequuntur hic diffinitiones egritudinum singulorum membrorum tocius corporis secundum Liliatorem, alias Gordonium

Incipit: Primus de febribus. Febris est calor innaturalis in igneum mutatus, etc. Effimera est febris ex distemperacia

Final rubric: Expliciunt hic diffinitiones egritudinum ipsius Gordonii Liliatoris, etc. Deo gratias

5. (fol. 202)

Petrus de Argellata, Cirurgia (bk. 5)

Rubric: Incipit liber quartus de decoratione omnium membrorum corporis humani

Incipit: Omnipotens Christus, qui existens immobilis cuncta commovet in homine

Incipit: De denigracione capillorum. Capillus sumit generacionem a fumosa materia

Explicit: et ad correctionem omnium et supportacionem meorum sociorum. Amen

Final rubric: Explicit liber quartus de decoratione humani corporis a capite usque ad pedes. Amen

Colophon: Finis adest vere laudatur qui est sine fine. Per me Joh. Lampis quinta die Januarii in profesto Epiphanie, anno 1461

eTK 0187G, apparently misidentified, taking the scribe's name as an author. Both incipits correspond to bk. 5 of Petrus de Argellata as pr. Venice, 1492 (GW 2322).

6. (fol. 289)

Extracts from Galen

7. (fol. 292)

Avicenna, De uiribus cordis (tr. Arnold of Villanova)

Incipit: Creavit Deus ex concavitatibus cordis ut esset armarium Spiritus

Final rubric: Explicit liber A vicenne de viribus et medicinis cordis translatus a magistro Arnoldo, marchione de Villa Nova

8. (fol. 303)

Peter of Abano, De uenenis

9. (fol. 312)

Petrus Hispanus, Thesaurus pauperum

Explicit: (de anthrace) inter duos lapides diuino miraculo sanat ancracem. Explicit

10. (fol. 332)

Galeatius de Sancta Sophia, De simplicibus (abridgement)

Incipit: Abrotanum calidum et siccum in iio. In comfortacione stomachi frigidi valet

Final rubric: Expliciunt simplicia Galeacii de Sancta Sophia sub compendio extracta; Laus Omnipotenti Gubernatori

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 341 folios

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 15th century (in part 1461) ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

Colophon, art. 5; not in Watson, Dated and Datable.

Perhaps in England in the 15th century: medical recipe in an English hand, fol. 341v.

Andrew Norton, esquire

Nathaniel Potinger

William Laud, 1573-1645

Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1635

Record Sources

Description adapted (May 2021) from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885), with additional reference to published literature as cited.

Quarto Catalogue, col. 444

Quarto Catalogue, col. 445

Quarto Catalogue, p. 574

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 37