Petrus Hispanus (John XXI, Pope) ( -1277) (& others)
Collection of medical receipts, with a few technical receipts, in Latin: including extracts from the 'Thesaurus pauperum' and an abbreviated version of 'De oculis'. Also extracts from the 'Breviarium' of Arnoldus de Villanova [ -1311]. Compiled with other receipts by a Flemish or Burgundian Physician. Written in a small neat semi-current German script: paragraph marks in red. A foliation in pencil has been added. Fol. 1 (red) Experimentum Magis/tri Petri hispani contra/omnem maculam oculorum./Recipe fenicula verbene... 8v, line 5 Nota de passionibus oculorum./Dico humores quidam sunt in capi/te.../.../(line 14) Cum enim oculorum tunice sunt/septem... 19, line 9 [Contra pediculos palpebrarum]...et superinun/gatur in pectine et ubicumque fuerint/necat eos. The miscellaneous receipts from the 'Thesaurus pauperum', in which the section on eye-diseases is interpolated, are continued to fol. 33v. 34 Incipiunt extracta Arnoldi/villa noua ex breuiario suo/et primo de dolore capitis./Medicus expertus circa passiones/cerebri... These extracts seem to end on fol. 61, after which there is a collection of medical and other receipts, some of which are stated to be by, or associated with, persons and places in Belgium and Burgundy. SPIERINCK (Jan) [ -1991]. Ff. 72, 73, 74v, 76, 78, 81v, 85v, 86, 86v, 88, 91, 91v, 92v, 94. Spierinck was Physician to Philip III, Duke of Burgundy, and Rector of Louvain University. HOESTRATEN (Johannes). Ff. 76, 92v, 95, 98v. PORTA (Lambertus à). Ff. 75, 98, 99. Physician to the children of Philip I, King of Castille, before his accession, when Archduke and husband of Mary of Burgundy. HUBERTUS DOCTOR. Virtutes granorum juniperi. Ff. 82-83. WARANDIE, Magister Burgundiae. Ff. 92, 97v. SARTO (Conradus de). Ff. 75v, 94v. Officialis Leodii [Liége]. Fol. 74. Decanus Sancti Bartholomei Leodii. Fol. 92v. Cancellarius Brabantiae. Fol. 95. Monachi in Terson. For a purgative under the date 1486. Fol. 96. THEODORICUS Cirurgus Tongrensis. Fol. 100. On fol. 96 the anonymous compiler states: 'Item eodem tempore [1486 ?] burcoducis [Bois-le-Duc] repperiancillam hospitii mei dolentem in stomacho'. THEODORICUS cirurgus Tongrensis. Fol. 100. On fol. 96 the anonymous compiler states: 'Item eodem tempore [1486 ?] burcoducis [Bois-le-Duc] repperi ancillam hospitii mei dolentem in stomacho'. There are receipts in Flemish on Fol. 62 and Fol. 104. The three leaves at the beginning and the nine leaves at the end contain receipts in French by various early 16th century hands.
1 volume 3 ll. + 104 ff. + 9 ll. 8vo. 14 x 10 cm. [Bois-le-Duc ?] 16th century vellum binding: both ties wanting.
Medicine, Traditional; Formulas, recipes, etc.; Eye; Juniperus; Ophthalmology
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Format: Archive, Institution: n/a, Identifier: b19264537, Digicode: digwms, Collection code: MS.618