United Kingdom, London, Wellcome Library, 730

United Kingdom, London, Wellcome Library, 730

Medical miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 93 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 175 x 120 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    A foliation of arabic numbers made with a pencil.
  • Condition Description:
    First folio has been repaired. Some leaves stained and margins frayed. A leaf or leaves are wanting after fol. 92.
  • Decoration:
    On the first leaf a coat of arms in red and black, with floreated decoration lettered J.A.S. On folios 45r - 46v are small pen drawings of urine-flasks.
  • Hand Description:
    The text is written by serveral hands
    The notes of payments on ff. 36 and 68 are made by a certain Lactantio del Zuplia, who on f. 68 states: 'Ricordo como io lactantio del zuplia comenzai andare a la botega de maestro maria di bernardino seruar...', dated 12 November 1526.
    The name of one of the main contributors of the extracts is found on foleave 35v where he says: 'Ego autem Jo. Ant. Scandolistius physicus talem facio unctionem et inueni mirabiliter operare'.
  • Acquisition:
    Purchased by the Wellcome Library in 1930, accession number 56392.
  • Provenance:
    The inscription on the first leaf apparently states that the MS. was acquired for 25 soldi on March 24, 1520: it is perhaps by the hand of the above-mentioned Lactantio del Zuplia. On fol. 79 another owner has written: 'Die 14 septembris 1613 D. Romanus Serenarius donauit mihi hunc librum. Bramno Santa Maria'. There is an unidentified armorial library stamp on fol. 2
History
  • Origin Date: End of 15th 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. 539f. [Link]
  • Wellcome Institute Library (London): Wellcome Library Online Catalogue [description]
Content
Galen De differentiis febrium 2r - 6r
Al-Razi Liber divisionum 10r - 15r
  • Note:
    Just excerpts of the text.
Averroes Colliget 15v - 20r
  • Incipit:
    [f.71r:] Hec sunt que Aueroys confirmat ...
  • Explicit:
    [f.78v:] ...contra dolorem capitis qui fit ex humoribus frigidis et grossis. Hec in 5° colliget.
Bartholomew the Englishman De proprietatibus rerum (Extracts) 20v - 22r
Constantinus Africanus Viaticum (Extracts) 23r - 23r
Avicenna Canon 24r - 27r
  • Note:
    Extracts: 1 Fen 4
Anonymous Letter in the case of fever 27v - 27v
  • Note:
    A letter from the Compiler to his 'Eximie doctor uti frater' on a case of tertian fever.
Avenzoar Liber Teisir 28r - 28r
  • Note:
    Just excerpts of the text.
Abenragel Pantegni 28v - 31r
  • Note:
    Just excerpts of the text.
Baptista de Scamonibus De oleis balsamini 32r - 35r
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam verus balsamus est naturalis ...
  • Explicit:
    ... Et oleum quidem sanis est oleum om fanzinum.
Lactantio del Zuplia Notes of payments 36r - 36v
  • Note:
    Notes in Italian. f. 36r- 36v dated 26 November 1526, 68r- 68v dated 12 November 1526. No script on ff. 69r- 70v .
Miscellaneous Notes on the practice of medicine, pulses, urines, etc. 38r - 59r
Petrus Musandinus Tabulae de confortantibus 60r - 66r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit Petrus Salernitanus . Quaedam confortant corpus ...
  • Note:
    Just excerpts of the text.
Rogerius de Barone Rogerina minor 66v - 67v
  • Incipit:
    [f. 66v:] Quoniam medicina dividitur in theoricam et praticam ...
    [f. 85r:] Quia teste Avicenna 4ta, pii, c. 1 tria sunt instrumenta medicine ...
  • Explicit:
    [f. 92v:] Cura istorum predictorum apostematum est.
  • Note:
    Chapters 1, 2, 3, abbreviated on ff. 66v- 67v . Then ff. 85r- 92v continue. No script on ff. 69r- 70v .
Miscellaneous Miscellaneous medical extracts and notes 79r - 84r