United Kingdom, London, Wellcome Library, 531

United Kingdom, London, Wellcome Library, 531

Italian and latin medical miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 290 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 220 x 160 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Each section has a foliation on its own. The online description of the Wellcome Library use these foliations.
    Section 1 (ff. 1r- 59v ): a foliation from 1-59, a lot of pages without number. The numbers on ff. 40r and 41r are swiched. This is a problem of binding.
    Section 2 (ff. 60r- 100v ): a foliation beginning from 2-42.
    Section 3 (ff. 101r- 169v ): a foliation beginning with 237 on the bottem of the folios. Another parallel foliation beginning on f. 110r is not continuous.
    Section 4 (ff. 170r- 179v ): 173-182 on the bottom of the folios.
    Section 5 (ff. 180r- 190v ): 270-281 also on the bottom of the folios.
    Section 6 (ff. 193r- 206v ): two foliations differ by one number. One beginning on f. 193r is continous, the other begins on f. 194r and only counts the first six folios.
    Section 7 (ff. 207r- 249v ): an ink foliation starting with '3' on f. 208r .
    Section 8 (ff. 250r- 291v ): a foliation in the upper right edge going from 1-48. Another foliation on the bottom of the page starts with 48 but is cut away partly or completely from f. 286r on.
  • Collation:
    A composite manuscript out of eight codicological sections.
    A binding mistake, leaves 40 and 41 are switched.
  • Condition Description:
    Two leaves missing: before f. 60r and before f. 170r . A part of the blank f. 100r- 100v is cut away.
  • Decoration:
    On the first leaf f. 1r is an ornamental initial S, in blue and red with floreated border decoration in red and blue, and red and green: in the lower margin an emblazoned coat of arms [Aldobrandino di Lippo of Florence ?]. Other initials of the first, the third, and some initials of the sixth and eigth section in red. Headings and of the first, second and some in the sixth section are marked in red. Paragraph marks of the first, second and third and some in the eight section in red. Items 17 and 18 are illustrated with rough pen-drawings of apparatus, diagrams, etc. (cf. ff. 232r , 233v , 234v , 235v , 236v , 238v , 239v- 244r ). Item 21 has a circular pen-drawn zodiacal figure in black and red on foleave 252r .
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 1 column, the last section is set in 2 solumns.

    28 lines to the page in average.

    Section 1 (ff. 1r- 59v ) 29 lines to the page . Blank: 58v .
    Section 2 (ff. 60r- 100v ) written by three different hands, ff. 60r- 63v , 64r- 68r and 68v- 96r , the last somewhat resembling that of Section 1. Blank: ff. 96v- 99r .
    Section 3 (ff. 101r- 169v ) written in a rounded Italian gotic. 30-33 lines to the page . Blank: ff. 109v and 161v .
    Section 4 (ff. 170r- 179v ) written in a similiar but smaller hand.
    Section 5 (ff. 180r- 190v ) written in a sloped current late 17th century hand. Blank ff. 191r- 192v .
    Section 6 (ff. 193r- 206v ) written in a semi-current humanistic hand, 22 lines to the page . Blank: 203v- 206v .
    Section 7 (ff. 207r- 249v ) written in a rounded Italian gothic. 39-42 lines to the page . Blank: ff. 247r- 249v .
    Section 8 (ff. 250r- 291v ) the first 30 folios in a rounded gothic 39-42 lines to the column (cf. ff. 250r- 279v ). The remaining folios in several similiar, but probably later hands. Blank: ff. 280r- 280v .
  • Hand Description:
    Written by a lot of hands, all in all in a small rounded script.
  • Binding Description:
    Calf binding.
History
  • Origin Date: Early 14th century - Late 17th Century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Samuel Arthur Joseph Moorat , Catalogue of Western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library Vol. I. Mss. written before 1650 A.D., London (1962) , pp. 382-386 [Link]
  • Wellcome Institute Library (London): Wellcome Library Online Catalogue [description]
Content
Jordanus Rufus De medicina equorum 1r - 58r
  • Incipit:
    Se lo cauallo nello principio del suo nasciemento sera nutricato continuamente...
  • Explicit:
    Et ancora sie aprouato proueuolo mente in tutta la maris chalcya di messer ionperadore nelle quale furo et furono usate et trouate et tenute perfettissime et buone finto alauda de dio amen. Deo Gratias. amen. amen. Explicit. Quisto libro e de fiorauante de tantino. El quale exchrisse angnolo giouangnie suo fratello ady xxv daprile 1439. AMEN. AMEN.
  • Note:
    In Italian written in 1439. No script on f. 58v .
Anonymous 16-line verse 59r - 59r
  • Incipit:
    Si uolete che uno cauallo sia ben perfetto
  • Explicit:
    Picciole orecchie et locchy como boy
  • Note:
    In Italian.
Anonymous 12-line verse "Yhesus 1466" 59v - 59v
  • Incipit:
    A fare aqua forte da guarire malattie
  • Explicit:
    E volgia tante scala el quarte
  • Note:
    In Italian.
Peter of Abano De venenis 60r - 96r
  • Incipit:
    [Prologue:] Tratato deli veneni fato per maistro piero de Abano in prima noy metteremo in prologo. Capitolo primo in quale se mete la diuision de li veneni...
    [Main Text:] Capitolo primo in lo quale se mete la diuisione de li veneni etc. Sapi che el ueneno sie opposito al cibo del corpo nostro...
  • Explicit:
    [Prologue:] ...queluy a chiel sera dato moriri inquel tempo e non innanci. Hic finitus prolegus
    [Main Text:] ...e si quelui a chi el sera dato morira in quelo tenpo e non innanzi'
  • Note:
    In Italian written in the middle of the 15th century. A prologue on ff. 60r- 64v . No script on ff. 96v- 100v , but some name on f. 100r .
Michael Scotus De urinis 101r - 109r
  • Incipit:
    Signori vui douete sauere che qua fa fute le Infirmita e le malatie...
  • Explicit:
    ...sono questi i. 4. elementi Fogo tera aqua e aiere etc.
  • Note:
    In Italian written in the middle of the 15th century. No script on f. 109v .
Odo of Meung De viribus herbarum 110r - 153r
  • Incipit:
    Mazer el quale el scriue le vertu di algune herbe in lo prinzipio el mete in prima la vertu dell altemilia...
  • Explicit:
    ..e fara andar del chorpo debitamente senza noximento. Deo laux.
  • Note:
    Written in the middle of 15th century. Italian prose version. An index on ff. 151v- 153r begins with "De l'altemilia" and ends with "De lo aloe"
Anonymous Miscellaneous medical recipes 153v - 161v
  • Incipit:
    Onguento bon e prouado per saldare...
  • Explicit:
    ..e poi sera medexina de metere donde el ne parera. (added by another hand) 'Chastorio yrios una parte iguale'
  • Note:
    In Italian written in the middle of 15th century. No script on f. 161v .
Averroes On Poisons 162r - 168v
  • Incipit:
    [Q]uesto libro sia chiamato Auerois Rezetario de mendexina. El qual libro trato de la vertu de le herbe...
  • Explicit:
    ...e due vene che sono de soto e due de sopra. E una vena che tra lo labro
  • Note:
    In Italian, written by a hand from the middle of the 15th century. According to Irina Galynina in her paper for the Workshop "Averroes as a Physician" (Cologne, March 2-3, 2020) this text is not Averroes' treatise "On Poisons".
Anonymous Four recipes 169r - 169v
  • Note:
    In Italian by an early 16th century hand.
Marbod of Rennes Liber lapidum 170r - 178v
  • Incipit:
    Euax Re de Arabia scrisse a Nerone Imperatore...
  • Explicit:
    Lo pirites e da colore zialo stretto conle mane scaldato e como fuogho. (Added by another hand:) 'Lo abesto e pietra de colore negro con vene rosse in seme et e molto graue questa pietra scaldata una viatra dura calda vii di.
  • Note:
    Written in the middle of 15th century. Abbreviated Italian prose version. Table of contents on f. 170r : "del diamante. i. del pirrites. 1 vii. ... del pirrites'. lvii"
Anonymous Sacerdotal formula 179r - 179v
  • Incipit:
    Mitte lapides in panno nitido et mundo et inter missam antequam dicatur pax domini dicat sacerdos super illos istam benedictionem...
  • Explicit:
    quod enim sanctum est nisi cum sanctitate custodiri non potest
  • Note:
    In Latin by a later 15th century hand, for the blessing of stones worn on the person.
Anonymous Trattato de' Medici Chinesi, e del The 180r - 190v
  • Incipit:
    Li medici Chinesi...
  • Explicit:
    ...di cui hoc parlati
  • Note:
    A short Italian essay written in the late 17th century, no record of which has been traced. It is probably the work of a Jesuit Missionary: the writer mentions his travels in Siam, a visit to Macao, and another to the Province of Fo-Kien in China. No script on ff. 191r- 192v
Anonymous Tesaurus mulierum 193r - 203r
  • Incipit:
    Capitolo primo De li Odori In comuni. E prima Sauon liquido che si chiama Napolitano. Tuoli Cenere de ceruo parte doe...
  • Explicit:
    ...Cum pomi ben stufati se voi profumare piui poluere multiplica el profumo'
  • Note:
    In Italian, incomplete, written in the early 16th century. The same text appears in Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery MS W.478, produced c. 1500 in Venice. This text is the sole contents of that manuscript. This copy is incomplete, and ends at what is ca. 14 of the Walters copy. It also lacks the prologue present in the Walters copy, f. 4r. (Information provided by Monica Green in a letter to the Wellcome library dated 20 January 2003) No script on ff. 203v- 206v .
John of Rupescissa De consideratione Quintae Essentiae 207r - 208v
  • Incipit:
    ca quia tot modis emitritei in nostro corpore generatur...
  • Explicit:
    ...sit laus per infinita secula. Amen. Explicit liber de consideracione quinte essencie omnium rerum pauperibus et euuangelicis viris erogatum
  • Note:
    Written in the middle of 15th century. Only the end of the treatise.
Anonymous Recipe 208v - 209r
  • Incipit:
    Ad conficiendum pannum lineum utilem contra omnem infirmitatem tibiarum. Recipe. xviii. uncias olei oliuarum...
Arnaldus de Villanova De aqua vitae 209v - 226v
  • Incipit:
    [H]umanum corpus cum sit compositum per ingressionem contrariorum...
  • Explicit:
    ...Item quid in ea positum non putres[c]it. Explicit liber aque uite ihesu christo sint gracie infinite. Amen. Editus per arnaldum de uillanoua. amen. Amen.
  • Note:
    Written in the middle of 15th century. Title: (Added in the upper margin by an early 16th century hand): 'Incipit tractatus vtilissimus de proprietatibus et natura aquae vitae per arnaldum de Villa noua '.
Petrus Peregrinus De lapide magnetis 227r - 235v
  • Incipit:
    In nomine domini amen. Incipit tractatus de lapide magnetis. [I]ste tractatus de magnete duas partes continet...
  • Explicit:
    ...ut apte capiant calculum in parte sui casus Sicut presens demonstrat descriptio. [Diagram]
  • Note:
    Written in the middle of 15th century.
Philo of Byzantium De ingeniis aquarum 236r - 244r
  • Incipit:
    In nomine domini amen. Incipit liber philonis de ingeniis aquarum. [I]n nomine dei pii et misericordis incipit liber philonis de ingeniis spiritualibus...
  • Explicit:
    ...Et huiusmodi rei hec est figura hic in presencia existens etc. [Figure].
  • Note:
    Written in the middle of 15th century.
Anonymous De aqua ardente 244v - 246r
  • Incipit:
    [N]ota quod duplex est aqua ardens...
  • Explicit:
    ...et procurat mihi graciam vestram quia tam diu moratus sum
  • Note:
    Written in the middle of 15th century.
Anonymous Recipe 246v - 246v
  • Incipit:
    Pro calore superfluo curando. Recipe unam unciam zucari molati...
  • Explicit:
    Ad poltagas et alios humores malos vinum cum tritica factum etc. finito libro sit laus et gloria christo Amen.
  • Note:
    Written in the middle of 15th century. No script on ff. 247r- 249v .
Gerard of Cremona Geomantia 250r - 279v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit Geomancia edita a magistro Gerardo cremonensi . [S]i quis per artem geomanticam...
  • Explicit:
    ..et e de numero 14. Explicit iste liber.
  • Note:
    Written in the early 14th century.
Anonymous Miscellaneous notes 279v - 279v
  • Note:
    Written by various hands. No script on ff. 280r- 280v .
Robert Grosseteste De impressionibus aeris 281r - 283v
  • Incipit:
    Ad prenotandum diversam disposicionem aeris propter diuersitatem motuum superiorum...
  • Explicit:
    ...aspexerint se in signis aquosis. Explicit platica [sic] planetarum deo gracias. Amen.
  • Note:
    Written in the middle of 14th century.
Anonymous Notes on geomancy etc. 283v - 287r
  • Note:
    Written by various hands
Anonymous De stolio 287v - 291v
  • Incipit:
    De stolio Capitulum 1. Si aliquis quesierit utrum stolium et iter eius sit fortunatum nec ne...
  • Explicit:
    Capitulum si in aliquo tempore ab aliquo domino optinebit optatum suum uel e contra aut dominium... nec ne aut honor uel dignitas augmentabitur vel diminuetur