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JCOL/Q/G/12
Title
Medica
Date(s)
- 1400-1500 (Creation)
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1 volume 8+ x 5+ in., 316 ff.; 37 lines to a page vellum and paper
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James gives no opinion on provenance.
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Scope and content
A medical compendium; M. R. James's no. 60. Contains: 1) an index of diseases; 2) Prognostics of Hippocrates; 3) Recipes - balsamum, aqua aromatica; 4) contents table to 5) a medical compendium, arranged alphabetically; 6) recipes in English and Latin; 7) Practica Mag. Bernardi de villa nova Cathalani; 8) Tractatus brevis et utilis Bernardi de Gordonio; 9) verses on medicine; 10) two indexes; 11) recipes. Some scribbles on the final flyleaf include a little Greek.
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Microfilm available.