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Ars operativa medica by Pseudo-Llull [fragment], c 1525
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Identifier: MS 122/f. 1r
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This folio (f. 1r) seems to contain a short extract from the Ars operativa medica wrongly attributed to Ramon Llull. It is a medical text.In this manuscript, another hand has titled this section Oratio Raymundi Lullii. It starts with the words Domine Jhesu Christe qui es vera salus omnium. Writing This section is written in a...
Dates:
c 1525
De Medicinis Secretissimis by Pseudo-Llull , c 1525
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Identifier: MS 122/ff. 129r-141r
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This section contains De Medicinis Secretissimis, sometimes called Medicina Magna (as in this manuscript), which was wrongly attributed to Pseudo-Llull. This is a medico-alchemical treatise linked to the Liber de secretis naturae, which is contained in the previous section of this manuscript.In this manuscript, this work is titled Magne Medicine sapientum...
Dates:
c 1525
Expositio cum questionibus super textu Rasis in nono Almansoris, 1481
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Identifier: MS 169/ff. 3r-37r, 41r-44r
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The first treatise in MS 169 is seemingly a uniquely extant text (noted in Thorndike and Kibre's Catalogue of Incipits. In the late 15th-century hand of Robert of Sherburn, it is entitled Expositio cum questionibus super textu Rasis in 9o Almansoris. The text itself is contained on ff. 3r-37r, and on ff. 41-44 there is an index to the text. The treatise seems to be questions, or a form of commentary, on...
Dates:
1481
MS 122: Composite manuscript containing four texts by Pseudo-Ramon Llull, c 1525
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Identifier: MS 122
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This manuscript contains texts related to medicine or alchemy, all attributed to Ramon Llull, a Catalan philosopher who lived from around 1235 to around 1315. Many alchemical works were misattributed to Llull in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, including those in this manuscript. The versions of these texts included in this manuscript were written around 1525 and the hand seems to be Italian, but a colophon on f. 128v states that it was written by Franciscus de Galliciis, which...
Dates:
c 1525
MS 163: Composite manuscript containing tables and three texts, 12th-15th centuries
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Identifier: MS 163
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Contains three texts, and tables subsequently inserted into the volume. The fly leaves (ff. i-ii) containing the tables are by later hands, while the rest of the manuscript is by a single 12th-century hand with only the exception of f. 72, which is written by a different but contemporary 12th-century hand.The tables on f. ir and f. iiv list three additional texts, now missing, or perhaps never copied: 'Liber urinarum a voce theophili' (Theophilus Protospatharius's, also known as...
Dates:
12th-15th centuries
MS 164: Medical text by Petrus Musandinus, 12th century
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Identifier: MS 164
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This text is entitled Liber medicinae secundum Petrum de Musandia ('Second book of medicine of Peter Musandinus'). Petrus Musandinus was a 12th-century physician from the school of Salerno. Musandinus was probably the student of another important Salernitian physician and writer, Bartholomeus of Salerno who produced a commentary on the collection of Hippocratic medical texts fundamental to medieval medicine: the Articella. Petrus Musandinus himself produced a...
Dates:
12th century
MS 165: Composite manuscript containing three texts, 13th century
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Identifier: MS 165
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Contains three texts, all in the same hand. Although these are three separate texts, the binding of them together, with the two short texts following Avicenna's Canon is a common arrangement.ff. 1r-406r: Canon of Medicine by Avicenna [Arabic: Ibn Sina], in 12th-century Gerard of Cremona's Latin translationff. 407r-411v: synonima Avicenniff. 411v-412r: Expositiones...
Dates:
13th century
MS 166: Composite manuscript containing sixteen texts by/attributed to Galen, late 13th century
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Identifier: MS 166
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Contains sixteen texts by/attributed to Galen, in two different hands.ff. 1r-15v; 271r-274v:'De morbo et accidente'ff. 15v-48r; 266v-271r: 'De Interioribus'ff. 48r-75v: 'Megategni', 11th-century Latin translation by Constantinus Africanusff. 75v-92r: 'De Creticis Diebus'ff. 92r-114v: 'De Crisibus', 12th-century translation by Gerard of Cremonaff. 115r-125v: 'De elementis secundum Hippocratem', translated by Gerard of...
Dates:
late 13th century
MS 167: Composite manuscript including eight medical texts, 13th century
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Identifier: MS 167
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Contains eight texts on medicine bound together, in three different hands.ff. 1r-11r: Graphic depiction of the divisions of the sciences and medicine, and their connections to philosophyff. 11v-15v: De Ornatu Mulierumff. 16r-19v: Text on phlebotomyff. 19v-21r: De sectionibus et cauteriis et ventosis, by Al-Raziff. 21r-23v: Treatise on ulcersff. 24r-33v: A...
Dates:
13th century
MS 168: Rosa medicinae by John Gaddesden, 14th century
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Identifier: MS 168
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MS 168 is a 14th-century copy of Rosa medicinae (also known by the name Rosa anglica) by English physician John Gaddesden, written c. 1313. Gaddesden trained as a doctor at Oxford between 1307-1316, and embarked on a successful career as the first major medieval medical scholar to have trained entirely in England. An indication of his reputation, he seems to have treated a son of Edward I of England for smallpox (perhaps...
Dates:
14th century