A collection of ten assorted medical tracts, written in the first
half of the 9th century in an Insular, likely Celtic, script with
continental influences. Among the prescriptions (on page 91) is a
blessing with the cross to be used as “Schutzbrief gegen die
Versuchungen des Teufels und gegen Fieber” (insurance against
temptations by the Devil and against fever). The manuscript also
contains, for example, extracts from the Conspectus ad Eustathium
filium by Oribasius (4th century AD), a physician of late
antiquity, the Epistula de febribus by the Greek physician Galen
(† 216 AD), and a Liber medicinalis by an unknown author.
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