This is a composite medical manuscript made up of two separate
sections (ff. 3r-13v and ff. 14r-90) both from the 9th century,
bound together at an unknown date. The first section (ff. 3r-13v)
contains De Medicamentis (About Remedies) by Marcellus Empiricus
(fl. 4th century); the second section (ff. 14r-90) contains An
early medical recipes compilation of the 8th century known as Liber
Teropetici (The Book of Recipes) and several other texts. ff.
3r-12v: Marcellus Empiricus (fl. 4th century), De Medicamentis
(About Remedies) (extracts), ff. 3r-5v: Pseudo-Hippocrates,
Epistola ad Maecenatem (The Epistle to Maecenas) , beginning: 'Quem
Roganti tibi labellum promise Omni cura adhibita descriptum',
ending: 'nos observare debere ne dubites. Finit epistula
Hippocratis ad Mercenatem' with some interlinear Latin glosses. ff.
5v-12v: Pseudo-Pliny, De Medicina (About Medicine) , a compilation
of medical remedies. A letter used as a preface of the De Medicina,
beginning: 'Incipit epistula Plini Secundi ad amicos de medicina.
Frequenter mihi in peregrinationibus accidit' (ff. 5v-6r) followed
by other letters that are parts of the De Medicina : Cornelius
Celsus's two letters (ff. 6r-9v), Vindicianus's letter (ff. 9v-12r)
and verses beginning, 'Quod natum Phoebus docuit' (ff. 12r-12v).
ff. 12v-13v: An added medical recipe, 10th-century hand, beginning:
'Antidotum filantropum' and followed by a late 15th-century cursive
note. ff. 14r-74v: An early medical recipes compilation of the 8th
century, the Liber Teropetici with chapters (ff. 14r-15v),
beginning, 'Incipit medicinalis de omni corpore hominis
teraupetica'. ff. 67r-90v: Several short texts following the Liber
Teropetici as an appendix to it. ff. 67r-67v: A letter, beginning,
'Omnique tempore et die et nocte'.ff. 67v-70r: A dietary calendar.
ff. 70r-71v: Pseudo-Hippocrates, Capsula Eburnea (Epistle from
Hippocrates' Grave) , on the prognostics. ff. 71v-79r: Medical
recipes. ff. 79r-79v: De Ponderibus et Mensuris Medicinalibus
(About the Weights and Measures of Medical Recipes) . ff. 82v-90v:
An anonymous commentary on Hippocrates's Aphorisms (Aphorisms)
.Decoration:Simple large and small initials in brown. Some with
geometric patterns within the letter or foliate decoration, with
red or yellow highlights, some with animal heads or human faces
(ff. 45v, 69v, 70, 77, 78v, 81).
