Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 466: Medical Tracts
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- 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.
- Contents
- Fragmentum cujusdam tractatus medicinalis -- Liber de gradibus simplicium (transl. byConstantinus Africanus) -- Liber lapidum -- Liber aureus de remediorum et aegritudinum cognitione -- Epistula ad Pentadium -- Somniale Danielis -- Speculum medicarum
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xii
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nv402dr6013/MS_466.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jr416jk3295/466.pdf
- Contains
-
- Fragmentum cujusdam tractatus medicinalis. 1-8
- Nasmith
- Fragmentum cujusdam tractatus medicinalis. 1-8
- Note
- In the hand of no. 6
- Incipit
-
(1) Uniuersaliter autem catarticis utend' in robustis uirtute et promtis ad exercicia
(1) Catogoga dicuntur que coleram purgant - Note
-
Sections follow on Aloe, Scamonea, Pepli, Elleborus, etc.
Ends - Explicit
- (7) aloe uiole agrestes malua et saluia
- Rubric
- (7) Explicit
- Note
- (8) Receipts in the same hand
- Isaac Iudaeus (Ishaq Ibn Suleiman), Liber de gradibus simplicium (transl. byConstantinus Africanus). 9-100
- Nasmith
- De gradibus et virtutibus simplicium secundum Dioscoridem. 9-100
- Author
- Isaac Iudaeus (Ishaq Ibn Suleiman)
- Constantinus Africanus
- 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
(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, Liber lapidum. 101-132
- Nasmith
- Tractatus de lapidibus pretiosis. 101-132
- Author
- Marbod of Rennes
- 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), Liber aureus de remediorum et aegritudinum cognitione. 133-212
- Nasmith
- Liber aureus de doloribus et morbis cujuslibet partis corporis et eorum curationibus. 133-212
- Author
- Iohannes Afflacius (pseudo-Constantinus Africanus)
- Rubric
-
(133) Incipiunt capitula de libro aureo
(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, Epistula ad Pentadium. 213-227
- Nasmith
- Epistola Vindiciani ad Pintadium Gadum nepotem suum de urinis. 213-227
- Author
- Vindicianus Afer
- 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
- Somniale Danielis. 228-232
- 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
Ends - Explicit
- (232) Zizanias seminare rixas maximas audire
- Rubric
- (232) Explicit
- Speculum medicarum. 233-293
- 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
- Fragmentum cujusdam tractatus medicinalis. 1-8
- TJames
- 42
- Stanley
- Sub D. 11
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/qt651bq6363
- MS 466
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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