Composite collection of five short works (Miscellanea Medica III)

Composite collection of five short works, on the making of wines, medical receipts, in Italian and Latin, the first and third incomplete.

Contents

1. ff. 1r-6r Treatise on the making of wines, in Italian, incomplete

f. 1r Ad quel medesimo mettivi de la barba de la gramigna ... f. 6r ... non crescendo la quantita dell'altre cose che si mettono cola merchaccia.

2. ff. 1r-8r Medical receipts, in Latin

f. 1r In nomine domini. Amen. Quamvis egritudo que epilensia seu morbus caducus nominatur ... f. 8r Caveat ne balneet se in aquis dulcibus lacuum seu fluviorum in estate more iuvenum aliorum.

3. ff. 1r-8v Medical receipts, in Latin, incomplete

f. 1r Unguentum ad iecticam. Recipe maluarum violarum ... f. 8v ... alexandri solidum. 1. livistica semi solidum. 1. mel quantum sufficit etc.

4. ff. 1r-10v Peter of Spain, Thesaurus pauperum, in Italian, abbreviated

f. 1r In christi Nomine Amen. Questo libro si chiama el tesoro de pouvres. Contra alli capelli che caggiono ... f. 10v ...colla farina enpiastrata si caccia gl'infiati antichi e le durezze ella marcia.

5. ff. 1r-4r Anonymous A la descoriazione della vesica

f. 1r A la de[s]coriatione della vesciga e cociore dorina. Considerate le despositione tue de le parti de li reni ... f. 4r adunge modicum cere de quo inungantur renes.

ff. 5r-8r blank.

f. 8v Under the date 1528, an incantation for obtaining sleep beginning 'Christus vincit Christus regniat [sic] Christus inperat', and a note in Italian concerning an amulet inscribed therewith, and its powers.

c.1350-c.1450

1 volume 6 ff. + 8 ff. + 8 ff. + 10 ff. + 8 ff. 8vo & 4to. v.s. Unbound. The first 3 items are on vellum. ff. 30-36 are a palimpsest. By various hands.

Purchased 1910.

This collection of MSS. seems to have formed part of an original larger volume of tracts.

Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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