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Résumé : CCCC MS 466 is a twelfth-century collection of medical tracts assembled at St Augustine's, Canterbury. Like many such medieval collections, what constitutes a 'medical' treatise is somewhat elastic, this volume including as it does the verse discussion on the properties of stones by Marbod, bishop of Rennes (1035-1123), the Liber lapidum, a copy of the Somniale Danielis, a guide to the interpretation of dreams, as well as more conventional material such as the treatise on the humours by Vindicianus (fl. late 4th century), Epistula ad Pentadium. Something of the codicological history of this manuscript can be inferred, as the flyleaves consist of a papal document from the time of Urban VI (1378-89) and a note that the volume was 'reparacione fratris laurentii lenham'. Lenham has been identified as a mid-fifteenth-century figure, suggesting that this volume was rebound twice in the medieval period.
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Langue(s) des textes : latin
1-8 - Fragmentum cujusdam tractatus medicinalis || Fragmentum cujusdam tractatus medicinalis
Note : In the hand of no. 6
incipit : (1) Uniuersaliter autem catarticis utend' in robustis uirtute et promtis ad exercicia
incipit : (1) Catogoga dicuntur que coleram purgant
Note : Sections follow on Aloe, Scamonea, Pepli, Elleborus, etc.
Note : Ends
explicit : (7) aloe uiole agrestes malua et saluia
rubric : (7) Explicit
Note : (8) Receipts in the same hand
Intervenants :
Isaac Iudaeus (Ishaq Ibn Suleiman) - author
Constantinus Africanus - author
9-100 - Isaac Iudaeus (Ishaq Ibn Suleiman), Liber de gradibus simplicium (transl. byConstantinus Africanus) || De gradibus et virtutibus simplicium secundum Dioscoridem
Note : (9) Capitula in 3 columns in the same hand
rubric : (13) Liber graduum
Note : In a thicker hand
rubric : (13) Incipit prologus
incipit : (13) Quoniam disputationem simplicis medicine
explicit : (14) cum medicinis temperetur
incipit : (14) Dicunt ergo medicinam aliam esse
incipit : (15) Absinthium calidum (?) est in 1o gradu
Note : Ends (Zedoar)
explicit : (100) similiter uini odorem ab ore aufert
rubric : (100) Explicit
Note : (100) Receipts in the hand of item 1
Marbod of Rennes - author
101-132 - Marbod of Rennes, Liber lapidum || Tractatus de lapidibus pretiosis
rubric : (101) Incipit prologus in libro lapidum
incipit : (101) Evax rex arabum legitur scripsisse neroni
explicit : (131) Que decies senis distincta patent capitellis
rubric : (131) Explicit
incipit : (131) Incipit somniale danielis prophete quod fecit in babilonia diebus nabuchodonosor regis. Precabatur a principibus ciuitatis et ab omnibus populis ut eis sompnia que uidebant narraret. Dicens ego sum propheta de filiabus israel qui captiuus ductus sum de ierusalem ciuitate sancta. Hec omnia a deo facta sunt
Note : p. 132 blank, no more is written: see on p. 228
Iohannes Afflacius (pseudo-Constantinus Africanus) - author
133-212 - Iohannes Afflacius (pseudo-Constantinus Africanus), Liber aureus de remediorum et aegritudinum cognitione || Liber aureus de doloribus et morbis cujuslibet partis corporis et eorum curationibus
rubric : (133) Incipiunt capitula de libro aureo
rubric : (135) Incipit liber aureus
incipit : (135) Si dolor capitis sit ex causa in essentia capitis existente
Note : Marginal notes in the hand of item 1
explicit : (212) fleuma si ad uesicam descenderit non fetet
rubric : (212) Explicit liber aureus
Vindicianus Afer - author
213-227 - Vindicianus Afer, Epistula ad Pentadium || Epistola Vindiciani ad Pintadium Gadum nepotem suum de urinis
Note : Hand of item 1
rubric : (213) Epistola uindiciani ad pintadium gadum nepotem suum de urinis
incipit : (213) Corpus hominis constat iiiior humoribus id est sanguine colera, etc.
explicit : (227) clara in fine febris (?) apostema(?) significat in epate
Note : Ed. R. Peiper Philologus XXXIII 562
228-232 - Somniale Danielis
rubric : (228) Incipit somniale danielis (etc. ut supra to facta sunt) nichil per memet ipsum sed tantum (?) a deo accepi. quicunque leget danielem intelliget in somniale domini dei. Amen
Note : Text in two columns, as far as p. 231
incipit : (228) Aues apprehendere in somnis
Note : (228) Lucrum significat
explicit : (232) Zizanias seminare rixas maximas audire
rubric : (232) Explicit
233-293 - Speculum medicarum
rubric : (233) Incipit tractatus de egritudinibus singularum partium corporis
incipit : (233) Quia de egritudinibus singularum partium corporis tractaturi sumus ideo principium nostre orationis a cerebro faciamus
Note : (290) The first hand ends p. 290 on Sciatica passio
explicit : (290) et loci tumiditas et etiam(?) pes longius
Note : (290) Then a pretty upright hand continues
incipit : (290) Sciatica dicitur scie passio quoniam dolor est in concatenatione coxarum
explicit : (293) adiuuante domino nostro Ihesu Christo cuius nutu hoc opus incepimus eiusque auxilio et permissione ad finem usque compleuimus
Note : (293) Some late receipts (xiii-xv) follow on pp. 293, 294
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