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Medicine, Medieval

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

MS 171: Livre de Phisique et Cirurgie, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 171
Contents This manuscript contains an anonymous book on medicine and surgery written in Middle French in the 15th century, in which we find common topics of medieval medicine such as astrological medicine and the theory of humours. Five folios are missing: ff. I, XXXII, XXXIII (according to the original foliation) and two folios of the index at the end.ContentsText: starts imperfectly on f. 1r with the following words: ...
Dates: 15th century

MS 174: Composite manuscript including eight texts, 14th century

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Identifier: MS 174
Contents Contains eight texts bound together, in the same or very similar hands.ff. 1r-17r: Signa Prognostica by Ricardus Anglicusff. 17r-v: Unidentified fragment, beginning with the words Digestiva media... on f. 17r and ending on the verso of the same folio with: de digestis [?] sufficiant.F. 18 is blank...
Dates: 14th century