Germany, Soest, Stadtarchiv und Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek Soest, 23

Germany, Soest, Stadtarchiv und Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek Soest, 23

Medical Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 145 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 180 x 135 mm
Detailed Description
  • Origin:
    The manuscript consists out of some parts, all from the same period, brought together in 14th century.
  • Collation:
    VI^12 + (VI+1)^25 + VI^37 + (VII+1)^52 + 2VII^80 + (VI+1)^93 + VI^105 + 2(VI+2)^133 + (III-2)^137 +III^143 + I^145 Folio 133 was probably erroneusly assigned to the 11th layer when the manuscript was rebound.
  • Decoration:
    De venenis is rubricated rudimentarily.
  • Hand Description:
    The manuscript is written by serveral hands using a gothic font (textualis), some with cursive elements.
  • Binding Description:
    Darkbrown leather cover from 1955.
  • Provenance:
    Paleographic findings and ornations in the manuscript indicate a French rather than German origin. Some parts could also be bought, other come from the Dominican monastery Soest directly.
History
  • Origin Date: Beginning/Mid 14th century
  • Origin Place: France (?)
Content
Anonymous Synonyma Simplicium 1r - 5v
  • Incipit:
    Arthemesia biuoz. Asconium aslouch. Anisum anis...
  • Explicit:
    zysania katen. Zima deisine suredech.
Anonymous Quid pro quo 6r - 7v
  • Incipit:
    Pro ameos anisum. Pro abrotanum absinthium. Pro amigdalis absinthium...
  • Explicit:
    ... Pro ysopo thimum. Pro zipio anetum.
Anonymous Tabula electuariorum et aliarum medicinarum compositarum 7v - 9r
  • Incipit:
    Electuaria calida. Dyama(rga)riton pliris cum musco...
Anonymous Alphita 9r - 18v
  • Incipit:
    Alphita farina ordei. Arsenicum auripigmentum simpliciter pro citrino...
  • Explicit:
    ...Stear... multum humdum colligens ad instar adipis.
Anonymous De ponderis et mensuris 19r - 20v
  • Incipit:
    Pondera medicinalia conati sumus dicere que a plerisque ignorata sunt...
  • Explicit:
    ...sextarium est pondus duarum librarum et senis. Explicit.
Bernardus de Gordonio De urinis 21r - 46r
  • Incipit:
    (D)ilexi veritatis scientiam investigare--- Ista propositio scrita est a principe medicorum Galieno.. 22r: In primis auxiliante deo dicimus quid sit urina. Urina est colamentum sanguinis...
  • Explicit:
    ...et ita potest causari frigus in extremitatibus.
  • Note:
    The text is sometimes also called "De conservatione citae humanae, pars 2". It is shortend in some parts. No script on f. 41.
Bernardus de Gordonio De pulsibus 46r - 47r
  • Incipit:
    Pulsus est nuncius qui mentitur...
  • Explicit:
    ...secundum Galienum et Avicennam. Explicit de pulsibus.
  • Note:
    The text is also called "De conservatione vitae humanae, pars 3).
Bernardus de Gordonio Regimen sanitatis 47v - 90v
  • Incipit:
    Secundum intentionem Aristotelis primo ethicorum vita humana est triplex... f. 49r: Mulier cum approximatur ad partum...
  • Explicit:
    ... quia mors impiorum pessima bene autem mori via est in vitam eternam ad quam.. Amen.
  • Note:
    The text is also called "De conservatione vitae humanae, pars 4". No script on f. 50v. The beginning of the next text (starting on f. 92r) is erased on f. 91r. No script on f. 91v.
Johannes de Toleto Liber de conservanda sanitate sive dietarum 92r - 93r
  • Incipit:
    Scribitur ab Ysaac in libro viatici et(!) quicumque vult custodire sanitatem stomachum custodiat...
  • Explicit:
    ...et colera calida et sicca.
  • Note:
    Text ends with the 11th chapter.
Bernardus de Gordonio De phlebotoma 94r - 119v
  • Incipit:
    Incipit liber de conservacione vite humane editus in preclaro studio Montis Pessulani per magistrum Bernardum. Homo enim est princeps omnium animalium... f. 94v: Inchoatus est enim iste liber in prelcaro studio Montispessulani anno incarnationis domini m°. ccc°. vii xxii die februarii, luna celebrante synodum cum sole versus septimum gradum piscium. f. 95r (Text): Capitulum primum quid est flebotomia. Flebotomia est evacuatio universalis...
  • Explicit:
    ...non debet fieri nisi corpore mundificato. Explicit iste liber.
Averroes Treatise on the Theriac 120r - 127r
  • Incipit:
    Inquid magnus medicus Hamec Averrois: postquam prius gratias deo egero...
  • Explicit:
    qui me complere posse largitus est. Amen.
Johannes de Sancto Amando Glossa super antidotarium Nicolai (Excerpta) 128r - 133r
  • Incipit:
    Operatio medicine est trium, scilicet nature tamquam principialis agentis... f. 133r: Utrum digestio fiat a calore radicali vel fluente...
  • Explicit:
    ...quod inducat comlexionem membri ut per eam [ends aburptly]
  • Note:
    128r: Title written by a later hand: "Excerpta de glosa.."
Johannes de Aquila (?) Libellum Reginaldus de Phlebotomia 134r - 137v
  • Incipit:
    Mi Reginalde meum tibi cnsecro rite libellum, ut stet in iudicio vel cadat ille tuo... Cum sint perpauci qui nolunt flebothomari..
  • Explicit:
    ... Sola datu faciles premia posco preces. Explicit Reginaldus de flebothomia.
Anonymous De passionibus membrorum generativorum et de earum curis 138r - 143r
  • Incipit:
    de coitu. Constantinus. Si virga ex toto iaceat et semen effunditur, paraliticam esse dices. In libro de accidenti et morbo. Galenus. Spermate involuntarie exeunte spasmus est...
  • Explicit:
    ...oportet calidam superfluorum dissolutam ne semen in eis suffocetur.
  • Note:
    Beginning is missing. Compound of citations from Constantinus Africanus, Galen, Isaac Iudaeus [Ishaq al-Isra'ili], Hippocrates, Avicenna [Ibn Sina]). The table of contents on f. 145v lists this item as "Tractatus de urinis". No script on f. 143v.
Anonymous Fragment of a collection of homily schemes 144r - 145v
  • Incipit:
    Dnca 1 adventus: Benedictus qui venit .. (Mt 21,9). Inde dixit Augustinus XXI de civitate dei: Inter omnia 145r: In epiph. Dni: Ubi est qui natus est... (Mt 2,2) Scripitur in spalmo: Audi filia... (Ps 44,11-12), que quidem verba exponi possunt de sapientia increata..
  • Note:
    Texts end aburptly. The leave was taken from the inner frontcover. We can also find the table of contents on f. 145v.