Germany, Bernkastel-Kues, Bibliothek des St. Nikolaus-Hospitals, 300

Medical miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 31 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 350 x 245 mm
Detailed Description
  • Collation:
    Layers without a certain orderliness.
  • Decoration:
    No initials
  • Layout:
    Text is set in 2 columns.

    55 lines to the column.
  • Hand Description:
    Two different hands can be found: first hand on ff. 1r- 22r and a second hand on ff. 25r- 31r . Both are dated to the 14th century.
  • Binding Description:
    Wooden planks covered with deerskin.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Jakob Marx , Verzeichnis der Handschriften-Sammlung des Hospital zu Cues bei Bernkastel a./Mosel, Trier (1905) , pp. 292f. [Link]
Content
Averroes Treatise on the Theriac 29r - 31r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber de tyriaca magistri avenroys philosophi excellentis. deo gracias. Inquit enim magnus medicus avenzoar ...
  • Explicit:
    Comprehendi posse largitis (!) est. amen. Explicit liber de tyriaca averroys
  • Note:
    On f. 31v and on the following cover one can find excerpts from some texts from medical authors, e. g. from Bernardus de Gordonio or from Henry de Mondeville .
Avicenna De viribus cordis 25r - 29r
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber avicenne de universalibus cordis medicinis cordialibus translatus a magistro arnoldo de villa nova dicto. Capitulum primum... Creavit deus ex concavitatibus sinistris.
  • Explicit:
    Dignatus est opusculum terminandi. Explicit tractatus avicenne de medicinis cordialibus...
Mesue the Younger De consolatione medicinarum simplicium solutivarum 1r - 22r
  • Incipit:
    In nomine dei misericordis cuius nutu sermo respicit graciam et doctrina perfectionem principium verborum Johannis filii mezue filii belnae abdela regis Damasceni . Verbum cecidit.
  • Explicit:
    Zebel iucidum i.e. testudo. Explicit liber de consolacione medicinarum simplicium solutivarum quem fecit Johanes heben mesue .
  • Note:
    On f. 21r : Incipit tabula de gradibus. On f. 21v one can find a medical note but the page is nearly without script. No script is on ff. 23r- 23v . On f. 24r one can find a figure painted with pencil, but 24v is without script again.