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Biblissima authority file: https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q210346
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Résumé : CCCC MS 511 is a late thirteenth-century collection of medical tracts and recipes which M. R. James considered might have been written in England. It is among the few medical manuscripts in the Parker Library. The volume includes Constantinus Africanus (d. 1087) Viaticum, the Anatomia uiuorum by Pseudo-Galen, Giles of Corbeil (c. 1140-1224) De urinis with the Commentary of Gilbertus Anglicus (d. c. 1250), Modus medendi attributed to Archimatheus Salernitanus (Matthaeus de Platea - fl. mid-twelfth century), a translation by Constantinus Africanus or Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114-87) of De dietis uniuersalibus et particularibus by Isaac Iudaeus (Ishaq Ibn Suleiman, d. c. 955), an incomplete copy of John of Saint-Paul (Johannes de Sancto Paulo, fl. twelfth century or early 13th), Breuiarium de signis morborum and his De simplicium medicinarum uirtutibus. There is also another tract entitled De urinis and several medical recipes. Although in sequence with the collection from Elbing, there is no evidence that this was part of Richard Pernham's donation, and it is not known how the book came to Corpus Christi College.
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Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais, français
Intervenants :
Constantinus Africanus OSB - author
1r-59r - Constantinus Africanus OSB, Viaticum || Constantini Africani Breuiarius
Note : Double columns of 39 lines
incipit : (1r) Quoniam quidem (?) ut in rethorica tullius omne inquit expetendum
explicit : (1r) et quo libro inueniat
Note : (1r) Capitula. De allopicia - De epilepsia
rubric : (1r) De allopicia
incipit : (1r) Capillus ex fumo grosso nascitur
Note : (10v) Liber II
Note : (17v) Liber III
Note : change of hand on ff. 22r and 25r
Note : (27r) Liber IV
Note : (36r) Liber V
Note : (46r) Liber VI
Note : (50v) Liber VII
Note : Ends
explicit : (59r) concule marine incense cum ro multum ualent
pseudo-Galen - author
59v-74r - pseudo-Galen, Anatomia uiuorum
rubric : (59v) Liber anathomie incipit
incipit : (59v) Medicorum anathomiam necesse est precognoscere
explicit : (74r) et tardatur consolidacio
rubric : (74r) Explicit Anathomia
Note : On f. 74r-74v are medical verses, receipts, words written backwards, simple cyphers and sketches, but nothing to indicate provenance
Giles of Corbeil - author
75r-80v - Giles of Corbeil, De urinis, with the commentary of Gilbertus Anglicus || Egidius of Corbeil: versus de urinis
Note : Text 28 and 25 lines to a page and marginal comment
incipit : (75r) Dicitur urina quoniam sit renibus una
Note : Gloss
incipit : (75r) Egidius facit de urinis metricum tractatum ut in memoria facilius habeatur
explicit : (80v) Aggrauat et cumulat mala circumstancia culpam
rubric : (80v) Expliciunt uersus egidii
Note : Others follow
incipit : (80v) Sicut aque pure color est qui dicitur albus
Note : (81v) A receipt Pro osse fracto of cent. xv partly in English
Archimatheus Salernitanus (attrib.) - author
81v-93v - Archimatheus Salernitanus (attrib.), Modus medendi || Tractatus de modo medendi
Note : Double columns of 36 lines
incipit : (81v) In medendis corporibus et maxime purgandis
Note : (93v) Ends (imperfectly?) with section on Dyagdium
Note : f. 94r-94v gone
Isaac Iudaeus (Ishaq Ibn Suleiman) - author
95r-113r - Isaac Iudaeus (Ishaq Ibn Suleiman), De dietis uniuersalibus et particularibus (transl. by Constantinus Africanus or Gerard of Cremona) || Diete particulares Isaac
Note : double columns of 53 lines
Note : Beginning with liber II
incipit : (95r) Compleuimus in primo libro
Note : (103r) Liber III
Note : (106v) Liber IV
explicit : (113r) in urinalibus creat uiis
rubric : (113r) Expliciunt diete particulares secundum Ysaac
Note : (113r) Receipts one in French (xiii) Icci sunt le xxxiii chapitres pour rancle, others in English (xv in the hand of f. 81v)
John of Saint-Paul - author
113v-134v - John of Saint-Paul, Breuiarum de signis morborum (practica) (incomplete)
Note : (113v) Platearius
incipit : (113v) Amicum induit qui iustis amicorum precibus
Note : Ends unfinished on Lepra
explicit : (134v) rubea fiunt in corpore minuta
135r-135r - Medical receipt
Note : Column 1
Note : (135r) A receipt in Latin in the xvth cent. hand
incipit : (135r) Contra dolorem in brachiis, etc.
135r-136r - Medical receipts
Note : Column 2
Note : (135r) Receipts in Latin xiii
incipit : (135r) Apostolicon sic fit
Note : (136r) Receipts xv
136v-138v - John of Saint-Paul, De simplicium medicinarum uirtutibus || De simplicibus medicinis
Note : Six columns on a page
incipit : (136v) Cogitanti mihi de simplicium medicinarum uirtutibus
explicit : (138v) secundum haly .iii. et ypocrates de regendis
Note : The next (and last leaf) is numbered f. 147r-147v
147r-147r - De urinis || De urinis
rubric : (147r) Plurima sunt que ad urine iudicium exiguntur
Note : (147v) Receipts in other hands xiii and xiv, three of the former being in French
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