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De consolatione medicinarum
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Selections from Opera medicinalia : [manuscript]
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ff. 1-5: [Medical recipes added by 2 contemporary hands; ff. 5v-6v, ruled, but blank]. f. 7-109v: [Mesuë, Liber de simplicibus medicinis]: Incipit liber hebemesue de simplicibus medicinis, [Prologue] In nomine dei misericordis cuius nutu sermo recipit gratiam et doctrina perfectionem Principium verborum filii hamet filii helii filii abdebla regis damasceni verbus cecidit ... [f. 7v, Chapter list]: Distinctio capitulorum libri primi, Quatuor intentionum agregabimus sermonem in libro nostro primo. Prima intencio ponit condiciones in electione et posse medicinarum solutionem faciencium ... [f. 8, Text]: Continet ergo liber iste primus xxxvi capitula. Capitulum primum sermo utilis de electione medicinarum ... , Dicimus quod medicina lexativa [sic] non est a re complexionali ... [f. 108, De elleboro ... ]: Dosis, Eius est a karatis vi usque ad 3.ii vel usque ad 3.i. ff. 109v-113: Incipit liber graduum hebemesue, Absinthium calidum est in primo gradu siccum in secundo. Agaricus duobus modis est masculus et femina, lauda femina qui uterque calidi sunt in primo gradu ... [f. 113, Zizannia ... :] Plante leonis duo sunt genera maius et minus frigida et sicca in iio super carbunculos apposita prodeest. Explicit liber hebemesue de simplicibus medicinis. Deo gratias. f. 113r-v: [Alphabetical glossary]: Alhosorum id est species zuri duri, Alhase id est thimum, Alharmel id est cuta ... Taraxaton dicitur endivia vel silvestris scariola, Zirugen id est hermodattilus. ff. 113v-191v: [Mesuë, Grabadin medicinarum]: Incipit liber iohannis damasceni filii mesuhe calbdei quod est agregatio vel antidotarium electorum confectionum et incipit liber tercius, [Prologue]: Sicut in libris urinarum [sic] ex hiis que experti sumus quedam rememoracione digna ex quarum agregatione sumam conteximus quam gerbadin [sic] nostrum vocamus ... [Text]: Incipit prima distinctio de electuaris delectabilibus, Prima distinctio que est electurariorum subdivisionem habet quedam enim ex eis delectabilia sunt ... [f. 191v, Oleum philosophorum ... ]: Et est in eo virtus calefactiva resolutiva penetrativa consumptiva superfluitatum Et confert//
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Ioannis Mesue medici clarissimi cum certa additione Petri Apponi medici preclari liber feliciter finit
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Pseudo-Mesuë̈ the Younger, Yahya Ibn Māsawaih, supposed to have been a Jacobite Christian living in the 10th century, but now believed to been a Latin author of the early 13th century using the name Mesuë. Edited by Petrus Gulosius de Amalfia. Median folio, with paper measuring 33.5 x 22.6 cm. Text in one column, approximately 23.8 x 14.3 cm. Spaces left for initials. Signatures: [a¹⁰ b-k⁸ l⁶ m-z⁸ 2a⁸ 2b¹⁰ (2b10 blank)]. Hand-drawn borders on pages [2] and [3] with the one of page [3] hand-colored in red, green and yellow. Coats of arms drawn on top and bottom of page [3], with angels surrounding the one in the lower margin. Binding: brown morocco; binder's stamp: Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd.
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