Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.7

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Autre forme de la cote :
- London. Wellcome Collection, MS.7
- London. Wellcome Library, MS.7
- Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.7
- Wellcome Library, MS.7
Conservé à : Londres. Wellcome Library
Date de fabrication :
- Early 15th Century
Composition :
- 1 volume; 6 folios 4to. 21 x 14 cm. On vellum. 19th cent. half-calf binding, defective. The 'Proemium' is wanting, and the last three lines of the poem are missing. Inner margins are defective throughout, and the first 12 lines of the text of the poem are badly rubbed. Some leaves are wanting after the third leafolio
  The English text is in a small semi-current hand in two columns 38 lines to a column, with paragraph marks in red. The Latin text is in a rounded gothic hand, 39 lines to a page, with headings in red..
  The second and third leaves contain 20 crude pen-drawings of urine flasks, some roughly coloured, with Latin headings and English explanatory text. .

Manifeste IIIF

Numérisation intégrale

Ancien possesseur

Gilles de Corbeil, Carmina de judiciis urinarum, plus various medical receipts in English
Contents
1. f. 1 r-v A fragment in English containing medical receipts, notes on the colours of urines, etc.
f. 1r Tak ve croppis of horehond and verotis of mylfoil and bray hem in a morter ... A whit water in man by toke nyp sykenes in pe reynys ... f. 1v ... whych cercle is ve hyest region. Explicit.
2. f. 2r-3v Diagrams of urine flasks with explanations in English
3. ff. 3v-6v Gilles de Corbeil, Carmina de judiciis urinarum
f. 3v Ad cognoscendam vrinam humanam ab urina mulieris ... thow shalt understonde that if ver be eny trowbul in manis uryn ... f. 6v Aut nimius coctus cursus labor immoderatus.
The poem is complete except for the 'Proemium' and the last three lines, according to the text as printed in C. Vieillard's L' Urologie et les Médecinsurologues, (Paris, 1903).
Stated in a cutting from a bookseller's catalogue, pasted on the inside of the upper cover, to be from the library of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps [1820-1889].
Purchased 1922.

This manuscript is described in M. Teresa Tavormina, Uroscopy in Middle English: a Guide to the Texts and Manuscripts, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, ser.3, no.11 (University of Michigan, 2014)