Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 261

Source

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Library

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Shelfmark

• MS 261

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Date

• 1400 - 1499

Language

• Latin

Title

• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 261: John of Gaddesden, Rosa medicinae
• John of Gaddesden, Rosa medicinae || Iohannes de GaddesdenRosa medicinae

Agent

• Preferred form

  • John of Gaddesden (1280?-1361)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • John of Gaddesden

  Other form

  • Gaddesden, John of (1280?-1361)
  • Joanne Anglico
  • John, of Gaddesden, 1280?-1361
  • Johannes des Gaddesden
  • see more

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Description

• Summary: CCCC MS 261 contains a fifteenth-century copy of John of Gaddesden's Rosa medicinae, a text originally written while Gaddesden was studying medicine at Merton College, Oxford, between 1307 and 1316 (probably c. 1313). He was the only English-educated writer on medical matters to gain some recognition among the schools of mainland Europe, and it is sometimes stated that Chaucer modelled his Doctor of Physik on Gaddesden. Whether that is the case or not, he was certainly regarded as a talented physician, gaining employment within the household of Edward the Black Prince, who rewarded him with a rose made of gold, perhaps in a reference to Gaddesden's most well-known work.

  
  

  Contents :

  
  

  ir-232v - John of Gaddesden, Rosa medicinae || Iohannes de GaddesdenRosa medicinae

  Note: (ir) Capitula of the five books in a later hand

  Note: ff. iiir-ivv blank

  Note: At top of f. 1r the letter N. The same occurs at bottom of f. 232v

  Note: Text

  incipit: (1r) Galienus primo de ingenio sanitatis. Non visites nimis curias et aulas

  Note: (37v) Liber II

  Note: (183r) Liber III

  Note: (225r) Liber IV

  Note: (229v) Liber V

  Note: Ending

  explicit: (232r) Alia possint hic dici sed non uacat mihi modo

  rubric: (232r) Explicit rosa medicine magistri Johannis de gadesden. deo sint gracie infinite qui ad hunc finem perduxit. Amen

  Note: In the same hand:

  incipit: (232r) Emplastrum quod gracia dei appellatur

  Note: Ending f. 232v

  Note: Flyleaf blank

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