Written by the same scribe throughout in a clear contracted handwriting with rubricated headings and capitals. 1. ff. 4-96. The Epitome of Theophanes Nonnus, fl. c. 920 A.D.: According to tradition, this work was the medical portion of an encyclopædia compiled by the orders of the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, to whom some copies begin with a dedication, which is lacking in this manuscript. The Epitome was compiled from the works of Aetius, Alexander of Tralles, Oribasius and Paulus Aegineta and in complete examples contains 290 short chapters. In this manuscript there are 248 paragraphs or chapters. List of chapters (ff. 1-3). 2. ff. 96-110. An anonymous work entitled Synopsis of Remedies and Plasters. The text is divided into 49 chapters. 3. ff. 110v.-154. Part of a treatise by Psellus, De Victu Ratione. This manuscript contains only the first book and a small portion of the second. The complete text has been published by Julius Ludwig Ideler, Physici et Medici Græci Minores (Berlin 1841-2), Vol. ii, pp. 257 et seq. The part preserved in the present manuscript corresponds to the first 25 chapters of Ideler's text. There is a duplicate text in the Bodlein, Cod. Barocc. 150, fo. 11. [Michael Psellus was born in 1020 and died in 1105.] 4. ff.154v.-155. Miscellaneous jottings added by later hands. Folios 156-161 are blank.
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Anonymous, 'Synopsis of Remedies and Plasters'
Part of a treatise by Psellus, 'De Victu Ratione'
Miscellaneous jottings added by later hands