MS 173: Composite manuscript including two texts, 13th century
Contents
Contains two medical texts bound together, in the same hand. Both texts are glossed. There are miscellaneous notes on the first vellum fly-leaf, in a fourteenth-century hand.
ff. 1r-8v: 'Pulses' by Giles of Corbeil and gloss
ff. 9r-101r: 'Viaticum' by Constantine the African. Gloss ends f. 102v.
Both texts are described seperately under the titles listed above.
Well written in a single Italian Gothic hand, with rubrics and plain red capitals. Gloss by more than one hand, contemporary and later. The margins are significantly cut.
Some spaces have been left for illumination, but it has not been added.
Dates
- Creation: 13th century
Language of Materials
Latin
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to all. The manuscripts can be consulted in the Centre for Research Collections, Edinburgh University Main Library.
Extent
1 bound MS volume
Custodial History
There are no distinctive marks of origin in this manuscript. The hand may be Italian. Catherine Borland's catalogue identifies on the paper fly-leaf bibliographical notes in the hand of 'Girolamo Negrini', a nineteenth-century librarian of the Library of the Constabili family in Ferrera. On the inner cover there is 676 in pencil.
Previous reference
D. b. V. 22.
Previous title
Title given to the manuscript in Catherine Borland's catalogue: Aegidius de Pulsibus (Glossed), Constantini Afri Liber Viatici (Glossed)
Physical Facet
Material: Vellum
Binding: Modern, lettered Aegidius de Pulsibus, Constan. Afr. liber Viaticus, Codex.
Collation: a8-m8, n6=102.
Dimensions
24.29 cm X 16.51 cm
General
Secundo folio: morborum cretici
Foliation and number of lines to a page: ff. 102, number of lines to a page vary throughout the manuscript, see individual descriptions for more details.
Repository Details
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