Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 388: Medical Tracts

Description

Alternative title
Medica
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 54
Date created
[ca. 1300-1399]
Language
French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600), English, Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 40 lines
Height (mm)
242
Width (mm)
157
Collation
1(8)-4(8) 5 (three) 6(8) 7(8) 8 (three).
Writing
in a good clear hand
Foliation
ff. i-iii + 1-35 + 35a + 36-54 + iv-vi

Abstract/Contents

Summary
CCCC MS 388 is a compendium of medical treatises and recipes including works attributed to Hippocrates, Galen, Scelpius and 'H. Sampsonis de Clouburnel'. The contents are written in English, Latin and Anglo-Norman and were copied c. 1330. As such, it throws an interesting light on the creation and transmission of multi-lingual texts in later medieval England. An analysis of the Middle English components of this volume suggests that it was written or copied by an author who employed a linguistic style that has been localised to East Anglia in the vicinity of Ely. Other than this, there are no clues as to the manuscript's provenance.
Contents
Medical Tracts

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xiv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wm906kh2193/MS_388.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tb553dw2760/388.pdf
Contains
  • Medical Tracts. 1r-54v
    Rubric
    (1r) Hic incipit liber ypocracii galieni et sclepei
    Incipit
    (1r) Ypocras se liuere fytAle emperour cesar mytDemandant si volz viureEntendez ben a moun liureetc.
    Rubric
    (1r) De urinis secundum magol (or -OS)
    (1r) Urina viri sani est pura et aurei coloris
    Note
    The text is in French, Latin and English: English appears first on f. 4r
    (36r) A list of titles in English and at the end of it
    Incipit
    (36v) Here bygennes mani a god medecine yat leches han drawn out of ye bokes of Galion and sclepius and ypocras
    Note
    Ending
    Explicit
    (48v) of eld ale mad of barly malt and drinck it
    Rubric
    (48v) Expliciunt medicine de tractatibus ypocracii gallieni et sclepeij, etc.
    (48v) Ungwentum ad fistulam
    Note
    (48v) and other receipts Latin and English
    (49v) (Virtutes signorum)
    Incipit
    (49v) Nil capiti facies aries dum luna refulgetNon tangas aures nec balnea tucius intresetc.
    Note
    Ending
    Explicit
    (49v) Carpe uiam tutus sit pocio supra (?sumpta) salubris
    Rubric
    (49v) Expliciunt virtutes xij signorum lunacionum
    Note
    (50r) Various receipts in Latin
    Incipit
    (50v) Secreta medicine H. Sampsonis de Clouburnel. Seus sunt lez erbes quy sunt appelle lez .v .launces
    (51r) Ce est le charme seynt gabriel le portat par nostre seygnour pur charmer crestienes de verin, etc.
    Note
    (51v) Other receipts
    (52r) Nomina herbarum et earum virtutes
    Incipit
    (52r) Garofila latina Romanice garofle
    Note
    (53v) Ending
    Incipit
    (53v) He(re) mayst you knowen urins be coloures
    Note
    (54v) pasted over: apparently there is a name on it
TJames
161
Stanley
R. 8
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 388

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