Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an herbal in prose and verse. The volume opens with two Middle English poems, showing traces of East Anglian dialect, describing a variety of herbs and their medicinal properties, as well as accepted cures and prescriptions for a number of ailments. These are followed by Middle English and Latin prose texts also concerning herbal medicine
Description:
In Middle English and Latin., Laid in: parchment fragment probably recovered from earlier binding., Layout: single columns of 33 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: some initials, headings and words in red ink., and Binding: modern vellum boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, English prose literature, Herbals, Herbs, Therapeutic use, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Anṭākī, Dāʾūd ibn ʻUmar, -1599 أنطاكي، داؤد بن عمر، -1599
Published / Created:
1081 [1670]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 18
Image Count:
342
Alternative Title:
Nuzhah al-mubhijah fi tashḥīdh al-adhhān wa-taʻdīl al-amzijah 880-02 and نزهة المبهجة في تشحيذ الأذهان وتعديل الأمزجة 240-02/(3/r
Description:
Manuscript., Arabic., In neat, small naskh. The 164 folios measure 15x23 cm. The written surface measure 9x17.5 cm., 24 lines to page; few marginalia; the catchwords on bottom of page are sometimes cropped; the paper is beige and glazed. Leather binding of European origin., and "Ākhir mā wujida fī nuskhat al-muṣannif. Wa-qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min hādhihi al-nuskhah al-sharīfah fī yawm al-Aḥad, sādis ʻishrīn shahr Rajab al-Murjib, min shuhur sanat iḥdá wa-thamānīn baʻda al-alf min al-Hijrah al-Madanīyah, ʻalá muhājirihā alf alf taḥīyah wa-al-salām, ʻalá yad al-ʻabd Muḥammad Ṭāhir al-Aṣfahānī"--Colophon.
Manuscript., Persian., and Anonymous treatise on medicine in Persian, assigned to a certain ʻAyn al-Ḥayat Iskandarī who may or may not have been a real person. Another copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris (Catalogue des manuscrits persans, par E. Blochet, no. 874). Undated ca. 17th cent. in fair taʻlīq writing. Seems to be incomplete at the end. 175 leaves; 20x15 cm.; the written surface measures 14x7.5 cm; 15 line to the page; commentaries on the margins of most pages.
Publisher:
s.n. and د.ن.،
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Persian, Medicine, and Therapeutics
Manuscript on parchment of Agogo Mago, Libro medesynal delli spariueri
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic bookhand., One gold initial (f. 1r), 7-line, filled and surrounded by white-vine ornament, on a dark blue, dark red, and dark green ground, with pale yellow dots; extends into inner and upper margins. In lower margin an unidentified coat of arms (or, on a chief azur a parrot vert beaked gules) in a laurel wreath; accompanied by gold balls, hair-sprays, and simple floral patterns. Four initials, 6- to 4-line, in blue with red penwork designs or red with purple; plain capitals alternating red and blue throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mago, Agogo.
Subject (Topic):
Game and game-birds, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, on paper, in several cursive hands, containing a variety of alchemical, medical, and other "scientific" texts in Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. Contents include two Middle English poems, one on the four temperments, and the other the alchemical Secrets of the philosophers, attributed to George Ripley. Other contents include a dialogue between Dives and Lazarus; a copy of the Computus manualis; verious medical and alchemical recipes and formulae; and a treatise on snakeskin
Description:
In Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. and Binding: contemporary limp vellum.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, English literature, English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Science
Manuscript (incomplete) on paper and parchment of Philomena, a treatise on surgery written by John Bradmore, here in Middle English translation. Text discusses anatomy, apostumes (abscesses), wounds and ulcers, fractures and dislocations, other diseases treatable by surgery, and includes an antidotary and a summary of contents. Book I on anatomy and the opening of book II on surgery are wanting; another leaf wanting between fols. 59 and 60. Present manuscript begins in book II, chapter 4. Includes an account of how Bradmore saved the life of the young Prince of Wales (Prince Hal, the future King Henry V) after the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 and Also includes a short text on bloodletting, fols. 85r-87v; an unidentified "tretys of mynd," about mind and memory, fols. 234r-239r; and recipes for ointments, plasters, etc., ending imperfectly, fols. 239v-241v
Description:
John Bradmore (d. 1412) was a surgeon based in London from at least 1377. He was appointed an overseer of surgery in the City of London by the mayor in 1390. From at least 1399 he was associated with the royal household. Bradmore married twice, first to Margaret, with whom he had a daughter named Agnes, and second to Katherine. John Bradmore died on 27 January 1412 and was buried in the church of St. Botolph without Aldersgate., In Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Layout: single columns of 14-28 lines., Script: several secretary hands., Binding: modern blind-tooled morocco., Secundo folio: Plaster., Leaves are foliated in a modern hand starting with the first leaf as fol. 3, the second as fol. 4, and so on. This modern foliation is followed here., and Bibliographical file available.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and England
Subject (Name):
Bradmore, John. and Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery
