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Contents Ff. 71-83 of MS 169 contain the Liber urinarum ('Book on urine') by Isaac Judaeus. Also known as Isaac Israeli Ben Solomon, Judaeus was a 9th-century Arab Jewish physician and philosopher. Among other works, Judaeus wrote several medical treatises, and his work (originally in Arabic) was translated into Hebrew and Latin. By the 13th century, some of his medical works, including the 'Liber urinarum', was part of the medical curriculum at prominent European...

Contents Ff. 34-45 of MS 167 contain another medical text that is difficult to identify. It begins imperfectly mid-sentence on f. 34r with ...sue humanitatis beneficio... As such, there is no title or incipit line for identification, but its contents appear to deal with urine. The text ends on f. 45r with the words discurendo membrorum. Writing This text is by a third...

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A fragment of a text is contained on ff. 132-133 of MS 174. It begins with the words Urinarum cum sic perfectam scientiam... and ends with per longum transitum inspissabit.