Mulio, Blasius de

De urinis Actuarii Joannis Zachariae filii ... libri VII: Ambrosio Leone Nolano interprete. Abbreviated and translated into Flemish.

Medical receipts, etc. in French, Latin and Flemish.

The original foliation is incorrect after fol. 34 where a leaf has been dropped: a corrected numbering has been added.

On fol. 5 a coloured pen-drawing of a graduated urine-glass: fol. 8 figures of weights in yellow and back: fol. 24 astrological signs, etc. Some decorated initials in black and yellow. On the second leaf are pasted three small woodcuts, two of the 'Astrological Man' and one of the Planetary Circles: there is a space for a fourth woodcut, now lost.

Fol. 1 Dominus blasyus de mulio.

Fol 2 Woodcuts (see above) with MS. legends in Flemish.

Fol 2v Latin quotations, and a medical receipt in French.

Fol 3 Medical receipts in French.

Fol 4 Regnault signatures (see below).

Fol 5 De urinis Actuarii.

Fol 31v Ends with entry 'Vander uryne die lange ofte corten siecte beteyckent.'

Fol 32 Van den pols.

Fol 34v List of medicinal herbs, etc.: in three columns. Begins with 'Ambarius': ends with 'Ruscya'.

Fol 36 De conservis, electuariis, syrupis, pillulis, unguentis, etc.

Fol 44 Haer zyn nac auicenna vyer manieren van laxatiuen: on purgative medicines, etc.

Fol 49 Miscellaneous medical receipts and remedies.

Fol 62 Alle apostemen, etc.

Fol 70v Miscellaneous medical receipts in Flemish, Latin and French.

Fol 74v 'Modus parandi oleum ex cane rufo quo ...doctorem presbiterum monachum quondam persanauit qui per XV annos brachium sinistrum aridum instar ligni habuit'. This case is said to have occurred in 1514.

Fol 75v Medical receipts in Latin, Flemish and French.

Fol 77v Household and technical receipts in French.

Fol 79 Anathomija [porci COPHONIS]. Quoniam interiorum membrorum corporis humani compositiones ...

Fol 79v ... cadit in osseo supra quem omentum est etc. / Finis anathomiae.

Fol 80 Maxims of Philosophers, etc. in Latin and French.

Fol 81 'Pro consolatione legentium ... hec omnia que infra scripta sunt diligenter consideret Dominus blasius de mulio'. Latin quotations in verse. Notes in Latin on books of Canon Law.

Fol 82v Benedictiones ad conjurandum animalia illusa ac lesa. Pro peste animalium oratio et confessio.

Fol 84 Exorcismus super homines obscessos [sic] ac a spiritibus malis tribulatos [etc.]

Fol 88 M. Vc L X. in the lower margin.

On fol. 4 are two signatures: 'Toussaint regnault chirurgien servente [sic] dans lille' and below 'Françoise Regnault serviteur [sic] de son pere demeurant a lille'.

On the first leaf there is a note in pencil 'Ex[emplaire] ayant appartenu à Rabelais. Quaritch'. As Rabelais is believed to have died in May 1554 (cf. 'Biographisches Lexikon'), and our MS. is dated 1560, this statement seems to be erroneous.