The exact origin of this manuscript is unknown; the script and the
language suggest that it was created in the Southern Alemannic
region. The contents covering astrology, grafting trees, bleeding,
advice regarding health, urology and recipes for the most part are
taken from well-known sources and mostly correspond to Codex 102b
of the Zentralbibliothek Zurich. The author probably did not come
from an academic background, but must rather have been a medical
practitioner. In this sense, the volume can be characterized as a
“house book of folk medicine”, probably the oldest of its kind.
It is also considered the oldest source for the so-called
“iatromathematical corpus”.
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