Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 511: Medical Tracts and Receipts
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 511 is a late thirteenth-century collection of medical tracts and recipes which M. R. James considered might have been written in England. It is among the few medical manuscripts in the Parker Library. The volume includes Constantinus Africanus (d. 1087) Viaticum, the Anatomia uiuorum by Pseudo-Galen, Giles of Corbeil (c. 1140-1224) De urinis with the Commentary of Gilbertus Anglicus (d. c. 1250), Modus medendi attributed to Archimatheus Salernitanus (Matthaeus de Platea - fl. mid-twelfth century), a translation by Constantinus Africanus or Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114-87) of De dietis uniuersalibus et particularibus by Isaac Iudaeus (Ishaq Ibn Suleiman, d. c. 955), an incomplete copy of John of Saint-Paul (Johannes de Sancto Paulo, fl. twelfth century or early 13th), Breuiarium de signis morborum and his De simplicium medicinarum uirtutibus. There is also another tract entitled De urinis and several medical recipes. Although in sequence with the collection from Elbing, there is no evidence that this was part of Richard Pernham's donation, and it is not known how the book came to Corpus Christi College.
- Contents
- Viaticum -- Anatomia uiuorum -- De urinis, with the commentary of Gilbertus Anglicus -- Modus medendi -- De dietis uniuersalibus et particularibus (transl. by Constantinus Africanus or Gerard of Cremona) -- Breuiarum de signis morborum (practica) (incomplete) -- Medical receipt -- Medical receipts -- De simplicium medicinarum uirtutibus -- De urinis
Description
| Alternative title | [Untitled] |
|---|---|
| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. 139 |
| Date created | [ca. 1275 - 1299] |
| Language | Latin; English, Middle (1100-1500); French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) |
| Material | Vellum |
| Layout | various numbers of lines to a page |
| Height (mm) | 280 |
| Width (mm) | 195 |
| Collation | 1(12)-4(12) 5(14) 6(12) | 7(8)-9(8) (8 canc.) 10(12) (wants 3) 11(12) 12(12) 13(6) (+1). |
| Writing | change of hand |
| Foliation | ff. 1-79 + 79a + 80-89 + 89a + 90-93 (94 missing) + 95-98 (99 missing) + 100-139 |
| Provenance | Probably written in England. The binding is that of the bulk of the Parker MSS., of cent. xviii. The book is clearly not one of the Elbing collection though reckoned with them in an old manuscript list. It does not contain Mary Pernham's name, and is not in a German hand. |
| Additions | On f. 1r top L. corner is hanle., There are some small drawings, grotesques, etc., in the margin and occasionally glosses in French and English. |
Bibliographic information
| M.R. James Date | xiii late |
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| Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
| Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
| Contains |
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| Elbing | N. 13 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/jm097by4127 |
| Location | MS 511 |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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