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MS. Radcliffe Trust d. 5

Summary Catalogue no.: 51842

Contents

Henricus Amici ; Johannes Burgeon , Regimen preseruativum ab iniqua ualitudine gutte

Medical advice and recipes prescribed for a sick prince with an Auvergne title, perhaps the Dauphin or a duc de Bourbon, in the form of a four-part treatise.

Rubric: ...] A⟨l⟩uernie etc. Regimen preseruatiuum ab iniqua valitudine gutte editum per Henricum amici et Johannem Burgeon vniversitatis Montispessulani doctores medicine
Incipit: (preface) Vellemus illustrissime princeps ac summopere ex cordis intimis optauimus
Explicit: (preface) sed posse nostrum simul cum rectitudine voluntatis

Part 1

Rubric: De noticia egritudinis causarum et accidentium ipsius
Incipit: Cum noticia egritudinum causarum et accidentium earundem sit potissima pars curationum
Explicit: Ab eisdem excellentem personam vestram suauissimum preseruationis odorem necnon quietis saporem dulcissimum adepturam
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: rationibus, dicendoque
Form: codex
Support: paper, watermark hand with cuff cut in heart-shapes, similar to Briquet 11096–7 (1436, 1439), a pattern designated by Briquet as 'prov. française, région du midi'.
Extent: iv + 27 leaves (fols. i-iii, 13–27 are 19th-cent. flyleaves and padding, fol. iv is a medieval flyleaf)
Dimensions (leaf): 265–73 × 199 mm.
Dimensions (written): 187–90 × 110–23 mm.

Collation

1(12), preceded by one medieval flyleaf of the same paper

Layout

33–38 long lines, with only the bounding lines ruled, in hard point

Binding

Early 19th-century binding (German?) of marbled paper over pasteboards, with the title written in ink on a rectangular label of blue paper on the front cover; the leather spine (bearing the title lengthwise in gilt capitals), the pastedowns, flyleaves and padding were probably added later in the 19th century in England.

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; French (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Fol. 1 is marked with a parchment tab stuck on the outer edge, suggesting that the item was once part of a larger volume.

(fol. iv verso) 'NB si tibi defuerint medici medici tibi \fiant/ haec tria. mens laeta, requies, tenuisque dieta' (15th cent.).

Dr. Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss of Frankfurt am Main (1787–1854), printed bookplate, front pastedown.

His sale, Sotheby's, 7 May onwards 1835, lot 4539.

Front pastedown, clipping from a mid 19th-century English bookseller's catalogue, advertising the MS. as item 211 at 4s. (probably Thomas Rodd's catalogue of 1841, cf. MSS. Radcliffe Trust f. 1 [item 210], e. 4 [585], e. 30 [584] and others).

19th-century pencil annotations: 'Car' (?) (fol. iv recto, bottom edge); '30/' (fol. iv verso, lower right corner); '41' (fol. 1, bottom centre margin); 'R' (?) (fol. 12v, bottom centre margin).

'Radcliffe Library Oxford, University Museum' (round blue stamp, fol. iv; pencil shelf-marks on front pastedown 'G.161.J.1', '84 a 1'.

Transferred from the Radcliffe Science Libary, 1928.

Record Sources

Typescript description by Bodleian Library staff.

Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.