Accumulationes receptarum sub brevi compendio. Written in bold lettres bâtardes, 27 lines to a page. Fine illuminated letter F on fol. 1 in blue and gold, with marginal decorations in red and blue. Other initials in alternate red and blue, and blue and red: paragraph marks blue and red alternately, foliation in red. Fol. i (red) Incipiunt accumulationes Receptarum sub breui / compendio. A magistro Johanne pisis compilatarum. // FEbris fit sepe propter / debilitatem virtutis non potentis / digerere... Fol. clxiii (End) Vsus antidoti emagogi de mane cum vino / conseruat sanitatem in frigida complexione. This MS. appears to be one of the works mentioned in his entry on 'Jean Piscis' by Wickersheimer in his 'Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au moyen âge', p. 464. On the verso of the second fly-leaf is a note on the author in Latin, here named 'Joannes de Pisis', by the same hand.
1 volume 31 x 22 cm. On vellum, 18th cent. calf gilt binding.
Formulas, recipes, etc.; Medicine, Traditional
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Format: Archive, Institution: n/a, Identifier: b19577977, Digicode: digwms, Collection code: MS.621