De febribus. [Latine versus a Constantino Africano.] Written in double column of 30 lines to a column. Capitals, paragraph marks and headings in red. Fol. 1 [O] te fili Karissime iohannes lacri/mas mesto cordis dolore/perpetim effundere perspexi./... col. 2 (Text begins) [L]iber iste in v diuiditur partes. prime est de essentia febris/et eius diffinitione... f.71v ... propter sanguinem/qui est eius materia et propter uicinitatem cordis.//Explicit liber febrium ysa/ac. amen. This is followed for the rest of this column, the whole of the next column and half of fol. 72, by a note on plague by a later hand beginning 'Causa pestilencie est/aer putridus et corruptus...', and ending 'in corde et in aliis membris principalibus'. [Cf. Thorndike Catalogue of Incipits. Col. 89, and Singer 'Catalogue of Plague Texts'. No. 48.] There are marginal notes in Latin by several contemporary and later hands-the same as those in MS. No. 369. [Isaac Judaeus.].
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