Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 388
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- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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- MS 388
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- Date
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- 1300 - 1399
- Language
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- Middle French
- English
- Latin
- Title
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 388: Medical Tracts
- Medical Tracts
- Description
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Summary: CCCC MS 388 is a compendium of medical treatises and recipes including works attributed to Hippocrates, Galen, Scelpius and 'H. Sampsonis de Clouburnel'. The contents are written in English, Latin and Anglo-Norman and were copied c. 1330. As such, it throws an interesting light on the creation and transmission of multi-lingual texts in later medieval England. An analysis of the Middle English components of this volume suggests that it was written or copied by an author who employed a linguistic style that has been localised to East Anglia in the vicinity of Ely. Other than this, there are no clues as to the manuscript's provenance.
Contents :
1r-54v - Medical Tracts
rubric: (1r) Hic incipit liber ypocracii galieni et sclepei
incipit: (1r) Ypocras se liuere fytAle emperour cesar mytDemandant si volz viureEntendez ben a moun liureetc.
rubric: (1r) De urinis secundum magol (or -OS)
rubric: (1r) Urina viri sani est pura et aurei coloris
Note: The text is in French, Latin and English: English appears first on f. 4r
Note: (36r) A list of titles in English and at the end of it
incipit: (36v) Here bygennes mani a god medecine yat leches han drawn out of ye bokes of Galion and sclepius and ypocras
Note: Ending
explicit: (48v) of eld ale mad of barly malt and drinck it
rubric: (48v) Expliciunt medicine de tractatibus ypocracii gallieni et sclepeij, etc.
rubric: (48v) Ungwentum ad fistulam
Note: (48v) and other receipts Latin and English
Note: (49v) (Virtutes signorum)
incipit: (49v) Nil capiti facies aries dum luna refulgetNon tangas aures nec balnea tucius intresetc.
Note: Ending
explicit: (49v) Carpe uiam tutus sit pocio supra (?sumpta) salubris
rubric: (49v) Expliciunt virtutes xij signorum lunacionum
Note: (50r) Various receipts in Latin
incipit: (50v) Secreta medicine H. Sampsonis de Clouburnel. Seus sunt lez erbes quy sunt appelle lez .v .launces
incipit: (51r) Ce est le charme seynt gabriel le portat par nostre seygnour pur charmer crestienes de verin, etc.
Note: (51v) Other receipts
Note: (52r) Nomina herbarum et earum virtutes
incipit: (52r) Garofila latina Romanice garofle
Note: (53v) Ending
incipit: (53v) He(re) mayst you knowen urins be coloures
Note: (54v) pasted over: apparently there is a name on it
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