Germany, Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana, CA 2° 237

Germany, Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana, CA 2° 237

Medical Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 122 leaves
  • Leaves Format: In folio.
  • Dimensions: 330-340 x 240-255 mm
Detailed Description
  • Content:
    A manuscript of three parts/fascicles. I: 1r-60v, II: 61r-75v, III: 76r-121v.
  • Foliation:
    Foliation is made with a pencil (1-121). On the last folio someone added 122 in dark ink.
  • Decoration:
    Alternating initials in red and blue.
  • Hand Description:
    Fascicles I and III are written from multiple hands, but fascicle II seems to be written by one hand. The previous owner Amplonius made notes in the manuscripts, i.e. f. 25r a note about authership, dedication and extent of the missing parts of the text.
  • Provenance:
    Before 1410/12 the manuscript was possesed by Amplonius Rating de Berka. He had a catalogue of his manuscripts and named this one "72 medicinae" there. Later in the library of the "Collegium Porta Coeli" it was named "72 medicinae" as well.
History
  • Origin Date: Mid 14th century
  • Origin Place: Italy
Content
ʿAlī Ibn-ʿĪsā al-Kaḥḥāl De cognitione infirmitatum oculorum sive memoriale oculariorum 1r - 24r
  • Incipit:
    [f. 1r Prologue:] Destinata est ad me pagina tua frater benigne... [f. 1r Text:] Decet enim oculum qui vult decenta (recte: decenti) cura creare...
  • Explicit:
    ...spissitudinem superficiei in oculo cum auxilio Dei.
  • Note:
    Ed.: Pansier, Collectio ophthalmologica 3, 1903, S. 195-350 (Edition ohne diese Hs.), Translation (german): Hirschberg/Lippert: Erinnerungsbuch für Augenärzte (1904).
Arnaldus de Villanova De considerationibus operis medicinae (Excerpt) 25r - 40r
  • Incipit:
    Istud est tractatus Ar. de V. n. de consid. operis medicine ad Goyssonum Coloniensem (= Grosseinum Coloniensem), qui tractatus alio nomine dicitur de flebotomia Arn. et deficit (!) de principio duo folia vel parum plus. [Text begins in the middle of a sentence: f. 25r ] ... accidencia que incipiunt apparere eis. Ende: aliquid quamvis modicum intueri.
  • Explicit:
    aliquid quamvis modicum intueri. Expl. iste liber Deo gr.
  • Note:
    The tractatus is ascribed to Arnaldus of Villanova through this manuscript. Ed.: Arnaldi de Villanova Opera medica omnia (1975ff), Bd. 4, S.121-267 (Edition with this ms. beginning with p. 155)
Arnaldus de Villanova Tractatus de intentione medicorum 40v - 44v
  • Incipit:
    Liber eiusdem de intencione medicorum. [Rubr.:] Inc. lib. de int. med.; prologus. [Anf.:] Eterne sempiterne lumen...
  • Explicit:
    ...iubemus hic feliciter terminari; [taller and striked in red:] Expl. libell. de int. med. magistri Arnaldi Yspani.
Arnaldus de Villanova Aphorismi de gradibus 45r - 59r
  • Incipit:
    In medicinis per artem compositis...
  • Explicit:
    et regnat Deus per omnia sec. sec., am. [after charts:] Expl. lib. mag. Ar. de V. n. de graduacionibus med.
  • Note:
    Ed.: Arnaldi de Villanova Opera medica omnia (1975ff), Bd. 2, S. XII, 143, 145-228 (Edition with this ms.)
Arnaldus de Villanova Tabula prima de portionibus qualitatum 58v - 59r
  • Incipit:
    Situs complexionis. Partes elevatae qualitatis scilicet caliditatis…
  • Note:
    f. 59v - 60v : no script
Averroes Treatise on the Theriac 61r - 61v
  • Incipit:
    Quod plurime ex egritudinibus que accidunt...
  • Explicit:
    ...dulci temperato et illi qui spuit sanguinem
Anonymous Tabula alphabetica 62v - 62v
  • Incipit:
    Acedula, Agaricus, Armoniacum, Absinthium…
Albucasis De medicinis simplicibus bonus valde 63r - 66r
  • Incipit:
    Inc. lib. Albuzale (!) Arabis de med. simpl. contra morbos uniuscuiusque membri et totius corporis et habet XX capitula, translatus per magistrum Arnoldum de Villa nova. Capitulum primum est de clarificantibus sanguinem et extinguentibus eius fervorem. [beginning:] Iuiubae sunt temperatae sed declinant ad caliditatem et humiditatem...
  • Explicit:
    ...cucurbita, cucumeres, citrulli et allumora.
  • Note:
    Ed.: Arnaldi de Villanova Opera medica omnia (1975ff), Bd. 17, S. 30-33, 35, 431-438, 459-462, 65-413 (Edition with this ms.).
Anonymous Quedam de canone Avicenne de medicinis simplicibus 66r - 67r
  • Incipit:
    Medicine conferentes cordi... Sunt istae: Ambra ... Aromatica, subtilis substantia ... Argentum… 66v : Butyrum: Calidus est et humidus in primo…
  • Explicit:
    ...menstrua post quatuor dies.
Johannes de Parma De simplicibus medicinis 67v - 68r
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam quidam de melioribus amicis quos habere videor...
  • Explicit:
    ...eedem cum infrigidantibus renes. Expl. practica Iohannis de Parma. [In red:] Optima bene notanda.
  • Note:
    Ed.: Mehner, Johannes von Parma, 1918, S. 1, 11, 14-21 (Edition without this ms.).
Gerard of Cremona De modo medendi 68r - 73v
  • Incipit:
    Cum omnis sciencia ex fine et utilitate sua...
  • Explicit:
    ...in fine commenti innominati super antidotarium Nicolai.
Ps.-Johannes de Sancto Paulo Flores dietarum 73v - 74v
  • Incipit:
    Flor. diet. Corpus hominis constat ex quatuor humoribus...
  • Explicit:
    ...et ventrem solvit. Expl. fl. diet. excerpti ex dietis Ysaac.
  • Note:
    Ed.: Ostermuth, Flores diaetarum (1919), S. 5, 14-51 (Edition with this ms.) This text is in most manuscripts and older literatur wrongly ascribed to Arnaldus de Villanova or Bernardus Gordon.
Averroes Treatise on the Theriac 75r - 75r
  • Incipit:
    et illi ad cuius positus descendit reuma. Et sit qui dabit in potu...
  • Explicit:
    ...complendi posse largitus est. Expl.
Bernardus de Gordonio Prognostica sive De crisi et criticis diebus 76r - 84r
  • Incipit:
    (Prologue:) Senectus domina oblivionis est… (Text:) In morbis enim prognosticare non possumus nisi morbum cognoscamus
  • Explicit:
    debilibus universalibus (!) tardius curatur.
  • Note:
    Translation-Group B
Bernardus de Gordonio De regimentum acutorum morborum sive Compendium regiminis acutorum morborum 84r - 85r
  • Incipit:
    Regimen acutarum aegritudinum consistit in tribus...
Bernardus de Gordonio Tabula ingeniorum 85r - 86r
  • Incipit:
    Ingenia curationis morborum quantum est de praesenti sunt decem…
  • Explicit:
    Avicenne primo canonis fen quarta capitulo primo.
Bernardus de Gordonio De gradibus 86r - 87v
  • Incipit:
    Doctrinam de gradibus intendimus tripliciter…
Bernardus de Gordonio De fleubothomia, de urina, de pulsibus, de conservacione vite humane 87v - 121v
  • Incipit:
    [a later hand added:] Inc. lib. Bernh. de Gord. de conser. vite hum. editus in preclaro studio Montispessulani. f . 88 r: Homo enim princeps est omnium animalium et rex... f. 88r : Phlebotomia est evacuatio utilis... f. 95r : Dilexi veritatis scientiam investigare credens posse melius… f. 106v : Pulsus est nuntius qui non mentitur... f. 107r : Secundum intentionem Aristotelis primo Ethicorum vita est triplex...
  • Explicit:
    ...ad quam nos perducat Christus filius Dei vivi, am.
  • Note:
    Rubricated Headings on f. 87v . -- f. 88r : De phlebotomia -- f.95r : De urina -- f. 106v : De pulsibus -- f. 107r : De conservatione vitae humanae.
Anonymous Tables about time and astronomics 122r - 122v
  • Note:
    Formerly glued into the backcover. About Menses Aegyptiorum, Menses Arabum, Medium motus solis et lunae.