Miscellanea medica — Canterbury, Kent. Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul).
| Provenance: | Canterbury, Kent. Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul). |
| Location: | Trinity College , Cambridge |
| Shelfmark: | R. 14. 30 |
| Author/Title: | Miscellanea medica |
| Type of evidence: | inferred evidence |
| Notes on evidence: | Cambridge, Trinity College, MS 903, together with BL MSS Egerton 823 and 840A, makes up all but the first three items of BA1.1599: 'Colecciones Iohannis de Lond' cum I.' John of London's hand occurs almost certainly. |
| Contents of the book: |
(fols. 1r–6r) Text has been scraped off, and a later list of contents in on fol. 2r. (fols. 6r–143r) Text begins abruptly. A collection of remedies in Southern French, with rubrics in Latin, e.g. (fol. 120r) Contra malum oculorum: "Cant hom amal en lueil ecubert louis pren de la razis del fenoil etraine locor e lauala ..." (fols. 143v–160r) Further receipts at first in Latin, on the next page and after in Southern French; inc. "Ad fistulam uel crancum [sic]. Accipe mel coctum ..."; ends imperfectly, text on fol. 160v erased. (fol. 161r) A charm-prayer, in later hand. (fol. 162r) blank. (fol. 163r) Miscellaneous receipts in Latin. "Hic incipit pomum ambre et ualet contra cerebri debilitatem Pomum ambre duplicatum ad reuma ...". A quire of paper with part of an index (s. xvii, xviii). (fols. 187r–210v) "Trotula de ornatu mulierum Cum auctor uniuersitatis deus ... et hec de cura sufficiant ... Finito libro reddatur gratia christo. Amen." (fols. 211r–220r) "Epistola quedam bresedati [sic] philosophi – Epistola quedam bins ascari. philosophi. Ascaritanus philosophus scriptsit hanc epistolam ... lauetur utendum est." (fols. 221r–228v) "Tractatus de secretis mulierum cum aliis – Reumatizat flegma. ad nares frequencius ... [a charm on stanch blood] Dominus Ihesus postquam fuit natus ante fuit unctus quam lauatus unctus et unctus et de lancea fuit punctus longinus miles punxit dominum et dixit sta sanguis et stet sanguis de homine isto petro uel giraldo filio talis .n. patris in nomine patris ...". (fols. 229r–234v) Receipts in Latin, without heading. "Oleum in quo cocta est primaueris facit cutem extensam"; ends imperfectly. (fols. 239r–242r) Receipts and charms in Latin and Northern French. (fols. 242v) blank.
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| Date: | s. xiii–xiv |
| Medieval Catalogue: | BA1.1599d–k Further details of medieval catalogue: BA1. BENEDICTINES: Canterbury-St Augustine's: Catalogue, 15th cent. |
| Notes: | Cambridge, Trinity College, MS 903, together with BL MSS Egerton 823 and 840A, makes up all but the first three items of BA1.1599. |