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Source des données : Wellcome Collection - Online Collections

• Breviarium, translated by Geradus Gremonensis. Janus Damascenus. Aphorismi. Illuminated MS. written in double column of 52 lines to a column by the same scribe throughout, in a semi-gothic Italian book hand. On fol. 3 a large illuminated and historiated initial I with a miniature of a Professor in cap and gown teaching; with a decorated border extending down the whole page, and ending in the lower margin with a grotesque beast and a bird. Fol. 14 Illuminated letter S. 26v Similar letter N with marginal side ornament showing a grotesque head. 36v Illuminated letter D with bird ornament. 53v Illuminated and historiated letter C with miniature of a professor teaching, half length. 68 Illuminated letter S. 71 Below the text of col. 2, tow small-pen-drawings of grotesque monsters. 75, col. 1 Illuminated and historiated letter P, with half-length miniature of a Professor teaching, and winged marginal decoration. col. 2 Illuminated letter N. 119 Historiated letter L with miniature of a monk and young pupil, and a grotesque head: the colouring is incomplete, the blue portions only being filled in. Other capitals in blue and red, or in alternate blue and red: paragraph marks and headings in red. Fol. 3, col. 1 (red) Tractaus primus Breuiarii Johannis/filii Serapionis medici. Inquit Johannes/(in gold on a red and blue decorated ground) INCIPIAMVS/cum auxilio et bonitate dei... 3, col. 1, line 43 [Textbegins] Egritudines iste a duabus eqeniunt causis... 118v, line 5 ...Et alcuathum. ./et semis. (red) Completum est postremum aggregati/ex libro medicine editione Johannis filli sera/pionis. Et hunc librum transtulit magister/Gerardus cremonensis de arabico in latinum.//R/euforbi et spice inde. (red) Descriptio mugith experti/et piperis albi.../.../...et administretur in omni/quomodo dicitur in mugith. (red) Laus et honour deo nostro. 119, col. 1 (red) Amphorismi [sic] Iohannis damasceni./LIberet te deus fili amantissime a de/uio errris... 120v, col. 1 ...id anate oculos pone. contrarium/uero contraium/uero contrarium. DEO GRATIAS. col. 2 Medical notes and prescriptions by the same hand as the first and last two leaves. 122v Table of hot and cold qualities. The first and last two leaves contain medical prescriprtions and notes in double column, all by an early 15th century hand which is also found in many of the marginalia. On the first leaf, col. 2, line 35 a receipt is headed 'In nomini secundum Magistrum ma[rsi]lium'. The centre of the name is rubbed, but it seems possible that these notes may be form the lectures of Marsilius de Sancta sophia[ -1405] of Padua and Bologna. Various receipts on these two leaves and on the last two are stated to be by 'Magister M'. On the verso of the last leaf the Table of hot and cold qualities is by the same hand. In the lower margin of fol. 1, autograph of 'Maestro Antonil da parma' in a late 15th century hand.
• The 'Breviarium' was first published at Venice in 149, and the 'Aphorismi' of Janus Damascenus (together with Riazes: 'Liber Almansoris') t Milan in 1481. Phillipps MS. No. 905. Sold at Sotheby's 14/3/1825, Lot 68 (Phillipps Sale), when it was described as 'having been brought to England by the Abbé Celotti in 1825'.
• Purchased 1909.