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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 511

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  • MS 511
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Date
  • 1275 - 1299
Language
  • Latin
  • Middle English
  • Middle French
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 511: Medical Tracts and Receipts
    • Constantinus Africanus OSB, Viaticum || Constantini Africani Breuiarius
    • pseudo-Galen, Anatomia uiuorum
    • Giles of Corbeil, De urinis, with the commentary of Gilbertus Anglicus || Egidius of Corbeil: versus de urinis
    • Archimatheus Salernitanus (attrib.), Modus medendi || Tractatus de modo medendi
    • Isaac Iudaeus (Ishaq Ibn Suleiman), De dietis uniuersalibus et particularibus (transl. by Constantinus Africanus or Gerard of Cremona) || Diete particulares Isaac
    • John of Saint-Paul, Breuiarum de signis morborum (practica) (incomplete)
    • Medical receipt
    • Medical receipts
    • John of Saint-Paul, De simplicium medicinarum uirtutibus || De simplicibus medicinis
    • De urinis || De urinis
    • see more
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 511 is a late thirteenth-century collection of medical tracts and recipes which M. R. James considered might have been written in England. It is among the few medical manuscripts in the Parker Library. The volume includes Constantinus Africanus (d. 1087) Viaticum, the Anatomia uiuorum by Pseudo-Galen, Giles of Corbeil (c. 1140-1224) De urinis with the Commentary of Gilbertus Anglicus (d. c. 1250), Modus medendi attributed to Archimatheus Salernitanus (Matthaeus de Platea - fl. mid-twelfth century), a translation by Constantinus Africanus or Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114-87) of De dietis uniuersalibus et particularibus by Isaac Iudaeus (Ishaq Ibn Suleiman, d. c. 955), an incomplete copy of John of Saint-Paul (Johannes de Sancto Paulo, fl. twelfth century or early 13th), Breuiarium de signis morborum and his De simplicium medicinarum uirtutibus. There is also another tract entitled De urinis and several medical recipes. Although in sequence with the collection from Elbing, there is no evidence that this was part of Richard Pernham's donation, and it is not known how the book came to Corpus Christi College.


    Contents :


    1r-59r - Constantinus Africanus OSB, Viaticum || Constantini Africani Breuiarius

    Note: Double columns of 39 lines

    incipit: (1r) Quoniam quidem (?) ut in rethorica tullius omne inquit expetendum

    explicit: (1r) et quo libro inueniat

    Note: (1r) Capitula. De allopicia - De epilepsia

    rubric: (1r) De allopicia

    incipit: (1r) Capillus ex fumo grosso nascitur

    Note: (10v) Liber II

    Note: (17v) Liber III

    Note: change of hand on ff. 22r and 25r

    Note: (27r) Liber IV

    Note: (36r) Liber V

    Note: (46r) Liber VI

    Note: (50v) Liber VII

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (59r) concule marine incense cum ro multum ualent


    59v-74r - pseudo-Galen, Anatomia uiuorum

    rubric: (59v) Liber anathomie incipit

    incipit: (59v) Medicorum anathomiam necesse est precognoscere

    explicit: (74r) et tardatur consolidacio

    rubric: (74r) Explicit Anathomia

    Note: On f. 74r-74v are medical verses, receipts, words written backwards, simple cyphers and sketches, but nothing to indicate provenance


    75r-80v - Giles of Corbeil, De urinis, with the commentary of Gilbertus Anglicus || Egidius of Corbeil: versus de urinis

    Note: Text 28 and 25 lines to a page and marginal comment

    incipit: (75r) Dicitur urina quoniam sit renibus una

    Note: Gloss

    incipit: (75r) Egidius facit de urinis metricum tractatum ut in memoria facilius habeatur

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (80v) Aggrauat et cumulat mala circumstancia culpam

    rubric: (80v) Expliciunt uersus egidii

    Note: Others follow

    incipit: (80v) Sicut aque pure color est qui dicitur albus

    Note: (81v) A receipt Pro osse fracto of cent. xv partly in English


    81v-93v - Archimatheus Salernitanus (attrib.), Modus medendi || Tractatus de modo medendi

    Note: Double columns of 36 lines

    incipit: (81v) In medendis corporibus et maxime purgandis

    Note: (93v) Ends (imperfectly?) with section on Dyagdium

    Note: f. 94r-94v gone


    95r-113r - Isaac Iudaeus (Ishaq Ibn Suleiman), De dietis uniuersalibus et particularibus (transl. by Constantinus Africanus or Gerard of Cremona) || Diete particulares Isaac

    Note: double columns of 53 lines

    Note: Beginning with liber II

    incipit: (95r) Compleuimus in primo libro

    Note: (103r) Liber III

    Note: (106v) Liber IV

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (113r) in urinalibus creat uiis

    rubric: (113r) Expliciunt diete particulares secundum Ysaac

    Note: (113r) Receipts one in French (xiii) Icci sunt le xxxiii chapitres pour rancle, others in English (xv in the hand of f. 81v)


    113v-134v - John of Saint-Paul, Breuiarum de signis morborum (practica) (incomplete)

    Note: (113v) Platearius

    incipit: (113v) Amicum induit qui iustis amicorum precibus

    Note: Ends unfinished on Lepra

    explicit: (134v) rubea fiunt in corpore minuta


    135r-135r - Medical receipt

    Note: Column 1

    Note: (135r) A receipt in Latin in the xvth cent. hand

    incipit: (135r) Contra dolorem in brachiis, etc.


    135r-136r - Medical receipts

    Note: Column 2

    Note: (135r) Receipts in Latin xiii

    incipit: (135r) Apostolicon sic fit

    Note: (136r) Receipts xv


    136v-138v - John of Saint-Paul, De simplicium medicinarum uirtutibus || De simplicibus medicinis

    Note: Six columns on a page

    incipit: (136v) Cogitanti mihi de simplicium medicinarum uirtutibus

    explicit: (138v) secundum haly .iii. et ypocrates de regendis

    Note: The next (and last leaf) is numbered f. 147r-147v


    147r-147r - De urinis || De urinis

    rubric: (147r) Plurima sunt que ad urine iudicium exiguntur

    Note: (147v) Receipts in other hands xiii and xiv, three of the former being in French

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