Commonplace book, containing extracts and notes from medical treatises

Commonplace book, containing extracts and notes from medical treatises

Contents

1. ff. 1r-31r Notes and extracts on fevers

ff. 2r-6r Galen, De differentiis febrium; ff. 10r-15r Rhazes, extracts from Liber divisionum, ff. 15v-20r Averroes, extracts from Colliget; ff. 20v-22r Bartholomew the Englishman, extracts from De proprietatibus rerum; f. 23r Constantine the African, extracts from Viaticum; ff. 24r-27r Avicenna, extracts from 1 Fen 4 Canonis; f.. 27v Letter from the Compiler to his 'Eximie doctor uti frater' on a case of tertian fever; f. 28r Avenzoar, extracts from Liber theisir; ff. 28v-31r Haly Abbas. extracts from Pantegni.

2. ff. 32r-35r Baptista de Scamonibus, De oleis balsamini

f. 32r Quoniam verus balsamus est naturalis ... f. 35r ... Et oleum quidem sanis est oleum om fanzinum.

3. f. 36r-v Notes of payments, in Italian, by a different hand, dated 26 November 1526.

f. 37r-v blank

4. ff. 38r-59r Notes on the practice of medicine, pulses, urines, etc.

5. ff. 60r-66r Peter of Salerno, Tabulae de confortantibus, extract

f. 60r Incipit Petrus Salernitanus. Quaedam confortant corpus ... f. 66r ... et in pulvere datis mirabiliter operatur. Finis.

6. ff. 66v-67v Roger of Salerno, Rogerina minor, chapters 1, 2, 3, abbreviated

f. 66v Quoniam medicina dividitur in theoricam et praticam ...

7. f. 68r-v Notes of payments in Italian, dated 12 November 1526.

ff. 69r-70v blank

8. ff. 71r-78v Averroes, extracts from Colliget on materia medica

f. 71r Hec sunt que Aueroys confirmat ... f. 78v ...contra dolorem capitis qui fit ex humoribus frigidis et grossis. Hec in 5° colliget.

9. ff. 79r-84r Miscellaneous medical extracts and notes.

10. ff. 85r-92v Roger of Salerno, Rogerina minor, continued from f. 67v

f. 85r Quia teste Avicenna 4ta, pii, c. 1 tria sunt instrumenta medicine ... f. 92v Cura istorum predictorum apostematum est.

c. 1500

1 volume 93 ll. 8vo. 171/2 x 12 cm. Original vellum covers. A name has been cut out from the first leaf, which has been repaired: some leaves stained and margins frayed. A leaf or leaves are wanting after fol. 92. On the first leaf a coat of arms in red and black, with floreated decoration lettered J.A.S. On ff. 45, 46 are small pen drawings of urine-flasks. The notes of payments on fol. 36 and 68 are made by a certain Lactantio del Zuplia, who on fol. 68 states: 'Ricordo como io lactantio del zuplia comenzai andare a la botega de maestro maria di bernardino seruar...', dated 12 November 1526. The name of one of the main contributors of the extracts is found on fol. 35v where he says: 'Ego autem Jo. Ant. Scandolistius physicus talem facio unctionem et inueni mirabiliter operare'.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1930.

The inscription on the first leaf apparently states that the MS. was acquired for 25 soldi on March 24, 1520: it is perhaps by the hand of the above-mentioned Lactantio del Zuplia. On fol. 79 another owner has written: 'Die 14 septembris 1613 D. Romanus Serenarius donauit mihi hunc librum. Bramno Santa Maria'. There is an unidentified armorial library stamp on fol. 2.

Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).