Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 97/49
Medical texts
Physical Description
Modern partial foliation in pencil, in the second part an added attempt to correct foliation in brown ink:
[i] + 1-120, 129-136 | 137-152 + [ii]
Numbering in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the first rectos of each quire only. The foliator made an error at the beginning of quire 16, which ought to be f. 121. However, they marked it as f. 129, and the error is compounded in the beginning of quire 17 (f. 137) and quire 18 (f. 145). An earlier hand writing in brown ink foliated all the pages for quires 17 and 18, the surving numbering starts from f. 127 (ff. 127-142) (current ff. 137-152).Collation
- Quires 1-168 (ff. 1-136) |
- Quires 17-188 (ff. 137-152)
1-168 | 17-188
Additions
Quire signatures ('1-18') in the bottom right-hand corner of the recto side of the first leaf of each quire, written in pencil by a hand of the 19th/20th century.
Binding
19th-century binding, fully bound in calf over mill-board with matching decoration in blind to front and rear covers. Covers are each decorated with two concentric triple-fillet frames, the outer frame set at the perimeter of the boards, and the inner frame inset by 20 mm. Each corner of the inner frame is joined to the nearest corner of the outer frame with a triple fillet. Decorative archaded fleur-de-lis roll applied in blind to cover material over the head, fore, and tail edges of the boards.
Five raised bands on the spine. Spine compartments are decorated along their upper and lower perimeters with a triple fillet. Title label applied in black leather with the title ‘Viaticus et morbis de alia’ tooled in gold. Two small printed paper labels affixed to spine 49 and 97. Brown and white head and tail bands.
Paper pastedowns.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
At Gonville and Caius College probably by 1600: perhaps recorded as no. 15 in Thomas James, Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis (1600). It was certainly there by 1697, when it was recorded as no. 956 in Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697).
Part 1 [Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 97/49, ff. 1r-136v]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Added in upper margin, f. 1r: Assit principio sancta maria meo.
Added in the lower margin wtih a 17th-century cursive hand: Viaticus de curandis morbis.
Physical Description
Collation
- Quires 1-168 (ff. 1-136)
Layout
195-205 × 145-150 mm. Frame and line ruled in leadpoint, at times almost invisible. Written in two columns, 42-56 lines to the page, below top line. Seven vertical bounding lines extending the full height of the page. A double horizontal line in the upper margin, and a single horizontal line in the lower margin of the page extending the full width of the page. Two line ruling for headings in the upper margin above the written columns. Pricked in the outer, upper and lower margins.
Hand(s)
Southern textualis.
Decoration
6-line initial with penwork flourishing on f. 1r.
Two and three line initials alternating in red and blue with penwork flourishing in the other colour throught the volume.
Rubrication in the body of the text. Red and blue Roman numerals I-VII as page headings.
History
Part 2 [Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 97/49, ff. 137r-152v]
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Fischer identifies as Vindicianus , Epistola ad Pentadium, ed. V. Rose, Theodori Prisciani Euporiston: libri III, cum physicorum fragmento et additamentis Pseudo-Theodoreis (Leipzig 1894) pp. 484-492. The text varies from the printed edition.
Treatments for fevers (ff. 139v-140r), drinks to be consumed each month in order to preserve one's health (ff. 140r-141v), electuaries (f. 141v), antidotes (f. 141r), unguents (ff. 141r-142r), compounds/confections (ff. 142r-142v), and purgatives (ff. 142v-143r); treatments ailments of the eyes (ff. 143r-144r), of the voice (ff. 144r-144v), of the teeth (ff. 144v-145r), of the ears / hearing (ff. 145r-145v); for various ailments, in no particular order (ff. 145v-152v).
Physical Description
Collation
- Quires 17-188 (ff. 137-152)
Layout
230-235 × 150-155 mm. Ruled in ink, frame only, single vertical bounding lines extending the full height of the page, horizontal lines extending across the columns. Single column, 44-50 lines to the page, written below first line.
Hand(s)
Cursive with features of anglicana.
Multiple hands, change of hand at the quire change, f. 135r.
Decoration
Plain red initials and red pilcrows in the first quire only.
Rubrics in the first quire only.
History
Additional Information
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