Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 388: Medical Tracts

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Summary
CCCC MS 388 is a compendium of medical treatises and recipes including works attributed to Hippocrates, Galen, Scelpius and 'H. Sampsonis de Clouburnel'. The contents are written in English, Latin and Anglo-Norman and were copied c. 1330. As such, it throws an interesting light on the creation and transmission of multi-lingual texts in later medieval England. An analysis of the Middle English components of this volume suggests that it was written or copied by an author who employed a linguistic style that has been localised to East Anglia in the vicinity of Ely. Other than this, there are no clues as to the manuscript's provenance.
Contents
Medical Tracts

Description

Alternative title Medica
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 54
Date created [ca. 1300 - 1399]
Language French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600); English; Latin
Material Vellum
Layout double columns of 40 lines
Height (mm) 242
Width (mm) 157
Collation 1(8)-4(8) 5 (three) 6(8) 7(8) 8 (three).
Writing in a good clear hand
Foliation ff. i-iii + 1-35 + 35a + 36-54 + iv-vi

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xiv
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wm906kh2193/MS_388.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tb553dw2760/388.pdf
Contains
Title
Medical Tracts. 1r-54v
Rubric
(1r) Hic incipit liber ypocracii galieni et sclepei
Incipit
(1r) Ypocras se liuere fytAle emperour cesar mytDemandant si volz viureEntendez ben a moun liureetc.
Rubric
(1r) De urinis secundum magol (or -OS)
(1r) Urina viri sani est pura et aurei coloris
Note
The text is in French, Latin and English: English appears first on f. 4r
(36r) A list of titles in English and at the end of it
Incipit
(36v) Here bygennes mani a god medecine yat leches han drawn out of ye bokes of Galion and sclepius and ypocras
Note
Ending
Explicit
(48v) of eld ale mad of barly malt and drinck it
Rubric
(48v) Expliciunt medicine de tractatibus ypocracii gallieni et sclepeij, etc.
(48v) Ungwentum ad fistulam
Note
(48v) and other receipts Latin and English
(49v) (Virtutes signorum)
Incipit
(49v) Nil capiti facies aries dum luna refulgetNon tangas aures nec balnea tucius intresetc.
Note
Ending
Explicit
(49v) Carpe uiam tutus sit pocio supra (?sumpta) salubris
Rubric
(49v) Expliciunt virtutes xij signorum lunacionum
Note
(50r) Various receipts in Latin
Incipit
(50v) Secreta medicine H. Sampsonis de Clouburnel. Seus sunt lez erbes quy sunt appelle lez .v .launces
(51r) Ce est le charme seynt gabriel le portat par nostre seygnour pur charmer crestienes de verin, etc.
Note
(51v) Other receipts
(52r) Nomina herbarum et earum virtutes
Incipit
(52r) Garofila latina Romanice garofle
Note
(53v) Ending
Incipit
(53v) He(re) mayst you knowen urins be coloures
Note
(54v) pasted over: apparently there is a name on it
TJames 161
Stanley R. 8
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/qb778vp9705
Location MS 388
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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