Manuscript in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an incomplete copy of Constantine the African's De Remine Sanitatis, or Liber Pantegni (Practica). The text is a Latin translation from Arabic of ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās Majūsī's Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah. Contains 16 leaves: incipit: Quia in p[rima] p[ar]te n[ost]ri lib[ri] panteg[ni]; excipit: melestia[m]. Bound together with parchment leaf (l. 17) with miscellaneous medical notes, in several hands different from the hand of the other 16 leaves
Alternative Title:
Liber pantegni
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric: Hic incipit liber de regimine sanitatis., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: Red and blue illluminated initials with red and blue pen-flourishing in the margin; rubrication., Layout: leaves 1-16: 1 column of 34-37 lines; leaf 17: two-columns of 37 lines., Binding: Modern three-quarter vellum over green printed paper. Spine title: Constantinus Africanus MS. Saec. XIII., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Name):
Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, active 10th century-11th century.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of the anonymous Historia septem sapientum (ff. 1r-15v) and Arnaldus de Villanova's Regimen sanitatis ad regem Aragonum (ff. 15v-19r, highly abbreviated). Also includes Lentulus' Epistola de statura Christi ad Senatum Romanum (f. 19v) and a collection of moral sentences (f. 20r) in a different, slightly later hand
Alternative Title:
Historia septem sapientum : Regimen sanitatis abbreviatum
Description:
In Latin., Title of Regimen Sanitatis from opening rubric: Incipit liber de regimen sanitatis editus per Magistrum Raynaldum de Villa nova. (f. 15v) Other titles assigned by cataloger., Script: southern Gothic texualis., Decoration: 3-line initials in blue and 2-line initials in red. Rubrication., Layout: written in 2 columns of 29 lines., Binding: modern binding over pasteboard signed by binder: Bound by J. Desmonts / J. Macdonald Co. / Norwalk. Conn., Contemporary foliation: 96-115 (indicating sequence in original manuscript?); and modern foliation 1-20., and Available also on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Illuminated manuscript herbal, on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of medical texts, tables, and taxonomies about plants, animals, and herbs by Hippocrates, Dycolapius Plato, Apuleius, Sextus Placitus, Dioscorides, and Apollinis. Includes copious hand-colored drawings of plants and animals, and a number of full-page author portraits
Alternative Title:
In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicine scilicet Ypocratis, Platonis, et Diascoridis, In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicie s. Ypoctis, Platonis, et Diascoridis, and De herbis masculinis et feminis [and other botanical and zoological works, including the Herbarium of Apuleius]
Description:
In Latin., Title from rubricated heading on f. 3r., Script: southern gothic textualis., Layout: 1 column of around 38 lines., Decoration: copious illustriations of plants and animals. Full-page portraits of the authors on ff. 3v, 50v, and 63r. Rubrication., Binding: 18th/19th-century vellum binding over pastedboard. Spine title: Plantan et animal., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical, Herbals, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Zoology, Medieval
Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of letters, attributed to Hippocrates (ff. 1r-50v). Also includes a series of epitaphs (ff. 51r-53v); incipit: Caesari sacrum Ennius Montanus fecit auxit. Concludes with a collection of pseudo-classical letters of unknown Renaissance authorship (ff. 54r-72v): correspondence between Marius Appius and Latianus (2 letters, 54r-55r), letters by and to Curtius Rufus (22 letters, ff. 56r-73v), and a letter by Genutius to the Roman senate (1 letter, ff. 73r-74r). Leaves 50, 73-77 are blank
Alternative Title:
[Epistolae : translated into Latin by Alamanno Rinuccini].
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: historiated gold initial showing king seated on a throne (Ataxerxes?), with sword and orb in hand, and full border decoration including animals, puti, and human figures (f. 1r); five-line gold initial on blue frame (f. 25r); 2-line gold initials on purple and blue frames; gold capital letters. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 15 lines., Binding: old burgundy velvet over parchment., and Foliation added in modern pencil.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing books 1 (1r-97v), 2 (98r-195r), 4 (196r-303v), and 5 (306r-) of Avicenna's Liber Canonis or Canon Medicinae. Book 3 wanting. Collection of short medical texts follows: "Distinctio mensuraru[m] [et] ponderu[m] ex breuiario alfebyr" (342v-343r), "Distinctio ponderu[m] [et] m[en]suratu[m] ex breuiario filii sarapionis" (343r), "Pondera medicinalia signa conati sum[us]" (343r-343v), and the Secreta Ypocratis (343v-344v): "Peruenit ad nos [quia] cu[m] ypocras morti ap[pro]pinquaret". Also includes incomplete alphabetical index of medicial herbs (a-c; leaves iii verso-iv recto) and index of Arabic names: Incipiu[n]t expo[s]itiones nominu[m] arabico[rum] Auice[n]ne (leaves 345r-348v; Alfirdafu-Zicibil).
Alternative Title:
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Latin, Liber canonis, and Liber canonis medicinae
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: several large puzzle initials in red and blue; alternating red and blue two-line initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of 53 lines., and Binding: modern light-brown calf over pasteboards. Spine title in gold-tooling: Avicenna / Canon Medicinae / MS Saec. XIV.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, on paper, in unidentified hand, of an Italian translation of Averroës' Latin Tractatus or Epitome in physicorum libros (ff. 1r-53v)--a text originally written in Arabic. Also includes a treatise on human diseases in 46 chapters (ff. 54r-65r), entitled: In questo libro trataremo de tutte linfermita che posseno avenire nel corpo delomo dentro ede fuora dal capo ai piedii. Concludes with a list of remedies (ff. 65r-68r), written in a different hand; incipit: Per male de pieda cossa provata
Alternative Title:
Trattato di fisica
Description:
In Italian., Title from closing rubric., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: 2-line red initials. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of 30 to 40 lines., and Binding: modern brown leather half-binding over brown and green marbled paper (over pasteboard). Spine title in gold-tooling: Trattato di medicina in volgare.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Illuminated manuscript, in several unidentified hands, on parchment, containing a collection of works ascribed to Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh or Johannes Mesue. Contains: Canones universales (ff. 1r-58r), Medicum particularium (ff. 58v-207r), and Grabadin or Antidotarium (Inc.: Scripsimus in libris explanationum; ff. 209r-262r). Also includes Nicolaus Praepositus' Antidotarium (ff. 265r-290v). Various 15th-century medical recipes added in other hands (ff. 207v-208v, ff. 262v-264v, and f. 290v).
Alternative Title:
Opera
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: ten historiated initials in gold and colors: "P" with man wearing red cap (f. 24r); "S" with man teaching wearing red cap (f. 58v); initial wanting, cut (f. 78v); "S" with bearded man teaching (f. 87r); leaf with initial wanting (f. 100); "F" with man teaching wearing red cap (f. 105v); "S" with bearded man teaching (f. 112r); "P" with man teaching, bare head (f. 177v); "E" with bearded man (f. 265r). Alternating red and blue initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 30 lines (ff. 1-102 and ff. 163-207), 26 lines (ff. 103-162), 31 lines (ff. 209-262)., Binding: 18th-century Italian three-quarter green goat over marbled paper. Decorative gold-tooling on spine. Red spine label: Mesue Opera / MS. Membranaceum / Anni 1448., and Colophon on f. 207r: Deo gratias. Amen. n.d.t.s.h.o. die 8 Aprilis 1448. Second colophon on f. 290v: Deo gratias. Amen. n.d.t.s.h.o. die 3⁰ Jullii 1448.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript on paper, in two different hands, containing Joannes de Sacro Bosco's De sphaera mundi and Additiones (1r-22v) and Gherardo da Cremona's Theorica planetarum (23r-38v). First hand is unidentified; second hand, Jacobus de Milisapris, has copied the Theorica planetarum. Also includes a number of astronomical illustrations; in De sphaera mundi: f. 1v ("de forma mundi notatur hec spera"); in Theorica planetarum: ff. 23v, 26r-v, 29r, 33r, 34r. Manuscript is a palimsest; original text is a 15th-century Italian religious text
Alternative Title:
Tractatus de spera de Iohannis de sacro busco. Theorica planetarum and Tractatus de sphaera / written by Jacobus de Milisapris de Porturraris at Padua ; finished "at 2 P.M. on 9 September 1467"
Description:
In Latin., Titles from opening rubrics., Script: first hand writes in humanist minuscule; second hand in gothic textualis., Decoration: headings in red. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 30 lines., Binding: seventeenth-century paper binding over paper boards., Foliation added in red modern pencil., and Scribal note (f. 38v): Explicit Theorica planeta[rum] per me Iacobu[m] de Milisapris de Portuna[v]o[n]is. Anno C[hrist]i optimi 1467 die nono me[n]sis septembris hora m[er]curii. In paduano studio i[n] [con]trata colombino[rum].
Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of the author, of Walter Cromer's treatise on medicine and surgery in Latin. First page in English explains contents of the work; incipit: The contents of this littell boke be the followinge: fyrste the originall beginning of phisike and churgery... First 7 and final 38 leaves are frame-ruled, but blank
Alternative Title:
[Treatise of medicine and surgery / signed] Walt. Cromer
Description:
In Latin and English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist cursive., Layout: 1 columns of 31 lines., Binding: armorial brown leather binding over pasteboard, with coat of arms of Edward VI gold-tooled on both front and back covers., and Signed (f. 8v): Walt. Cromer.
Manuscript on paper, in unidentified hand, containing the Wundarzt-Ordnung or Statutes for the surgeons of the city of Regensburg in 1578. Folio 14v is a supplement dated 6 February 1580
Alternative Title:
Regensburg (Germany). Wundarzt-Ordnung, Imperial town of Regensburg : Wundarzt Ordnung of 1578, and Wundarzt-Ordnung, 1578
Description:
In German., Title from title page., Script: northern gothic for headings and titles, and Kurrent for text., Layout: 1 column of 30 lines., Binding: contemporary blind-tooled pigskin binding, embossed in black ink with the Imperial eagle and with the Regensburg coat of arms; dated 1579. Traces of ties., English translation available. Search for call number: Manuscript 23a Vault., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Surgery, Practice, Medicine, Public health, Surgeons, and Professional ethics
