Language(s): Latin
1. (fols. 1ra-5ra)
Johannitius,
Isagoge ad Tegni Galieni Rubric: Incipiunt Ysagoge Iohanicii ad Tegni Galieni
Incipit: Medicina diuiditur in duas partes
Explicit: boni maliue discretione.
2. (fols. 5ra-9vb)
Hippocrates,
Aphorisms Rubric: Incipit liber aphorismorum ypocratis
Incipit: Uita breuis, ars uero longa
3. (fols. 10ra-12vb)
Hippocrates,
Prognostica Rubric: Incipit liber prognosticorum ypocratis
Incipit: Omnis qui medicine ^artis^ sudio
4. (fols. 12vb-17ra)
Theophilus,
Liber urinarum Rubric: Incipit liber Theofili de vrinis
Incipit: De urinarum differencia negotiorum multi veterum medicorum
Final rubric: Explicit liber de urinis.
5. (fols. 17ra-18rb)
Philaretus,
Liber pulsuum Rubric: Incipit liber pulsuum philareti
Incipit: Intencionem habemus in presenti conscriptione
Final rubric: Explicit liber pulsuum
6. (fols. 18ra-29rb)
Galen,
Tegni Rubric: Incipit tegni galieni
Incipit: Tres sunt omnes doctrine, que ordine habentur
Final rubric: Explicit tegni galieni. Laus tibi sit Christe quoniam labor explicit iste.
9. (fols. 113rb-142va)
Isaac Israeli,
De dietis particularibus (trl. Constantinus Africanus) Rubric: Incipit liber de dietis particularibus
Incipit: Conpleuimus in libro primo uniuersales significationes generis cibarii
Final rubric: Expliciunt diete particulares.
Leaf missing between fols. 140 and 141 with loss of text.
10. (fol. 142ra-c)
Quid pro quo Incipit: Cum medicine simplices que sunt in curatione
Incipit: Pro aristologia rotunda ruta domestica in duplico
Ends at 'pro pencedano'. Cf. eTK 0317K, 1129L. Early addition on an originally blank leaf.
11. (fol. 142va-b)
Medical notes Incipit: Sexto videndum est de sinthomatibus que accidunt pocionatis
Incipit: Nota de trociscis tria notanda sunt, primum est de basi
Early additions on an originally blank leaf.
14. (fols. 189vb-209va)
Isaac Israeli,
Liber de urinis Incipit: In latinis quidem libris nullum auctorem inuenire potui
Final rubric: Expliciunt vrine Ysaac.
15. (fols. 209vb-229rb)
Giles of Corbeil,
De urinis Incipit: (prol.) Liber iste quem legendum proponimus est nouelle institucionis studiose composicionis artificio de antiquorum scriniis elicitus et extortus
Explicit: (prol.) Distinguitur liber iste in duas particiones, in primam et secundam. In prima agitur de de iudiciis urinarum secundum \cogicionem/ colorum et subiectarum. In secunda agitur de iudiciis earum secundum distinctionem contentorum.
Incipit: Dicitur urina quoniam fit renibus una
Explicit: aggrauat et cumulat mala circumstancia culpam
⟨Giles of Corbeil (?)⟩,
Commentary on De urinis Incipit: (comm.) Dicitur urina etc. Quia ibi formaliter et generaliter discernitur et licet prius in epate et subiectam et colorem acceperit
Incipit: Quale quid etc. forma descripcionis intencionem capituli declarat. In hoc enim ostenditur que in iudicio urine sint notanda
Explicit: Non ideo plus scilicet in quantitate plus sedimen Nota quod nigra ypostasis in fundo significat extinctionem caloris naturalis qui inpotens est dissoluere humores inde(?) aliquam uentositatem que possit ipsam eleuare et hoc nobis de coloribus et substanciis et contentis vrinarum sufficiant
Final rubric: Expliciunt uersus egidii
16. (fols. 229rb-249vb)
Giles of Corbeil,
De pulsibus Incipit: (fol. 230va) Ingenii uires modicis conatibus impar
Explicit: Iam sterilem cultum philareti vomeris horret
⟨Giles of Corbeil (?)⟩,
Commentary on De pulsibus Incipit: (comm.) Quatuor sunt membra principalia quibus humani corporis machina firmis basibus et fundamentis roborata subsistit
Explicit: effigiare non possit, est ergo tytulus talis, Incipit liber magistri egidii de differenciis pulsuum metrice compositus
Incipit: (fol. 230rb) Hiis prelibatis ad litteram accedamus. Ingenii etc. tria exequitur, beniuolenciam ubi dicit Sex sametm[sic] etc., attentionem vbi dicit arduitatem, et prolixitatem,in utroque docibilitatem. Materies de differenciis pulsuum Honorosa id est grauis et difficultatis mole opprimens ingenium tractantis premit vires ingenii tamquam humiles et debiles respectu sue difficultatis
Incipit: Cor uite Completo proemio aggreditur principale ut tractet de differenciis pulsuum sed prius quedam preludia premittit et accessoria ad principale et primo de complexione cordis
Explicit: Fige tuo opere fuo[sic] finito et conpleto alloquitur musam suam et monet eam quod figat hic metam et opus suum concludat unde versus
Essentially the text printed 1484 (istc ia00092000) etc. as by Gentile da Foligno, but the attribution seems to be incorrect as the commentary occurs in manuscripts that antedate that author (e.g. BnF Latin 6882A)
18. (fols. 254va-255vb)
Antidotarium Nicholai Incipit: ⟨E⟩go Nicolaus rogatus a quibusdam in practica studere volentibus
Explicit: camphorum similiter post ea ||
Incomplete.
Extensive annotations and corrections throughout in ink and leadpoint by more than one hand.
Secundo Folio: habundancia
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i (paper) + i (parchment) + 255 + i (parchment) + i (paper) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 320 × 215 mm.
Foliation: i-ii, 1–257 (modern, in pencil).
Collation
1(12)-11(12) (fols. 1–132), 12(12–1: missing 9 between fols. 140 and 141 with loss of text) (fols. 133–143) | 13(12)-21(12) (fols. 144–251), 22(four) (fols. 252–5). Leaf signatures in a continuous series of arabic and roman numerals (3-cxvii). Occasional quire numbers in arabic and roman numerals at the bottom of the opening rectos. Catchwords.
Layout
2 columns, 41–44 lines. Ruled space 200 × 130 mm.
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 560)
Red or blue initials, flourished in the other colour
Running headings in alternating red and blue capitals, red rubrics.
Fols. 250r-255v: spaces for initials unfilled.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
Provenance and Acquisition
Localized to France by Pächt and Alexander, to Germany by Hunt (annotations to the Quarto catalogue).
Eberbach, Cistercian abbey: mark of the chain staple of the libraria maior on fol. 255 (cf. N. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher (1998), 182-3); identifiable as as P3, P7 or P12 in the Eberbach catalogue of 1502 (the entries are too summary to allow further identification): Palmer, Zisterzienser, 248, without reference to the present manuscript.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
