Summary of Contents: Works of Rasis in Latin, probably all translated by
Gerard of Cremona.
Language(s): Latin
1. (fol. 1r)
Razes,
Liber diuisionum Rubric: Incipit liber divisionum verba Abuberi filii Zaccarie Azari ventillatus
Incipit: ⟨V⟩entillatum[sic] fuit in presendam
Explicit: (fol. 32v) delent vestigia earum.
eTK 1684E 2. (fol. 32v)
Rubric: Incipiunt capitula antidotarii verba Abubacri filii Zacarie Azari
Incipit: ⟨D⟩xi in hoc meo libro
Explicit: (fol. 41r) donec inspissetur deinde repone.
Final rubric: Explicit Antidotarium divisionum libri.
eTK 0445F Followed by recipes for a plaster and an ointment, after which the explicit is repeated.
3. (fol. 41v)
Razes,
Synonima Incipit: ⟨A⟩ltit id est asa fetida
Explicit: (fol. 43v) Zamab id est psilorrum.
Final rubric: Expliciunt synonoma libri divisionum.
eTK 0082H Followed by a list of measures: Obolus-Cyathos.
In the bottom margins are additions in two main hands:
a.
Recipes, mainly medical Contemporary and Italian (?); including
(fol. 16v)
Avenzoar,
De curatione lapidis Rubric: Canon quem scripsit Algazir Adule Cor filius Abimelech filii Cor imperatori Sarracenorum Ali filio Iosephi filii Tesiphin de curatione lapidis
Incipit: Accidenda a quibus conveniencius est cavere
Explicit: (fol. 17v) squillitico 1. 25. et bibatur.
eTK 0014M eTK 0185I b.
Charms, recipes, etc. German, 13th–14th cent.; including:
(i). (fol. 22v)
Incipit: Ad calculum optima confectio, fecit eam Magister Albertus
(ii). (fol. 23r)
Incipit: Pulvis probatissimus Magistri Nicolai de Anglia que cerebrum purgat, vertiginem capitis tollit … etc. etc.
(iii). (fol. 32r)
Two charms in German Language(s): German
(iv). (fol. 28r)
Medical precepts in verse Incipit: Hec precepta sequi debent aliosque docere
Explicit: Hec ut sis sanus et eis contraria serves. Auctor Goswinus est metri non peregrinus.
22 lines, WIC 7570.
(v). (fol. 31v)
Verses Incipit: Est quedam forma que cuncta preit sine norma.
8 lines.
(vi). (fol. 37v)
A piece on the soul and the seats of the faculties Incipit: Anima secundum officium … viva est anima
(cf. Ps.-Augustine, Liber de spiritu et anima, cap. xiii 1. 5–12 in PL 40 col. 788–9) Continues:
Incipit: Et nota quod intellectus dicitur esse in fronte, memoria in cerebro
Explicit: mens in spiritu
(also in MS. Lyell 8, fol. 20va: see no. 200 in index of incipits) (vii). (fol. 39r)
A blessing for medicine Incipit: Deus qui mirabiliter hominem creasti
Explicit: recipere mereatur per d.
See E. Wickersheimer, ‘Bénédiction des remèdes au moyen âge’, Lychnos, 1952, p. 99. Also in MS. Lyell 35, fol. 42v.
eTK 0410L (viii). (fol. 9v–10r)
A piece of necromancy (pastedowns)
Formed of parts of two bifolia of a late 13th-cent. MS. of quaestiones gramaticales.
Incipit: Consequenter queritur utrum lego sit oratio perfecta.
Form: codex
Support: Rather poor quality parchment
Extent: 44 leaves
(fol. 44 is a detached pastedown),
Dimensions (leaf): 274 × 190 mm.
Collation
1⁸–2⁸, 3⁸ (+1 added after 8), 4⁸, 5¹⁰;
Secundo Folio: Et cura
Layout
Writing above top line: 190–8 × 140 mm. ; 2 cols., 40 lines ruled with a hard point
Hand(s)
Written in a current text hand probably in Italy, to judge from the parchment, in the early 13th cent.
Binding
Binding of c. 1500 in wooden boards covered with rough white leather. Title written on the front cover in a contemporary hand.
Origin: 13th century, early ;
Italian (?) Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly no. 355 in the library of the abbey of Admont, Austria (paper label on spine, and 19th-cent. description in German pasted inside front cover). Identifiable in the 1376 catalogue: ‘Item divisiones egritudinum incipit ‘Ventilatus’’, and in the 1380 catalogue: ‘Item divisiones egritudinum Abubet incipit ‘Ventilatum fuit’’ (ed. G. Moser-Mersky, Mittelalt. Bibl.kat. Oesterreichs ui, 1961, pp. 34 1. i, 59 1. 26).
Sold by Admont in or after 1934 to L. and A. Brecher of Brünn (Moser-Mersky, op. cit., p. 9).
Bought by Lyell in February 1941 from Davis and Orioli: see their Cat. 93, no. 177.
