Jeffery & Yates, Descriptive inventories: Austrian libraries, v. 2, p. 289-291
Notes:
The colophon on f. [75v] gives the date 30 April 1399, while that of the recipe on the same folio mentions the year 1398. The epistle on ff. [239v]-240r is dated 8 july 1399, writtenat trent. The earliest ownership mark of St. Georgenberg is from 1659.
Provenance:
[1r] and [239v] Ad Bibliothecam Monasterii Montis S. Georgii 1659. [1r] (18c) v. 205. (19c) Stift Fiecht Hs 205. (20c) DK 61:091/HS 100. In typed catalogue B IV 3.
Physical Issues:
Folio
Reproduction:
Apply for reproductions to: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, P.O. Box 7300, Collegeville, MN, USA.
1 col. Variable line count. Framed. Gatherings of 6 bifolia (horizontal catchwords visible on last verso of many fascicles; stubs follow f. 238).
Script:
Cursive (notula)
Scribe:
many
Support:
Paper
Other Decoration:
Lombard initials; initials of ff. [228r] - [236r] never executed.
Notes:
unnumbered except for ff. 50, 100, 150, 200, 240, which are numbered in a recent hand. Though the notes on ff. [75v]-[76r] and the epistle on ff. [239v]-[236r] never executed.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
1r-21r
Author:
Avicenna
Supplied Title:
Canon
Rubric:
Capitulum primum de utilitate medicine et de quibus considerandum est de medicinis.
Incipit:
In nomine domini amen. Cuius bonitate vobis Kariss
Explicit:
iudaicus vitrum adustum et consilens.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
This is an abbreviated recension, see TK 423, 695.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
21r-42r
Supplied Title:
Tractatus secundus de medicinis simplicibus in singulari.
Rubric:
Tractatus secundus de medicinis simplicibus in singulari. Caput primum de Aloe.
Incipit:
Aloe est una medicina de medicinis sublimioribus a
Explicit:
Pulmo wlpis qui desiccatur et bibitur confert asma
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Another titulus in the margin has been rubbed out. The text is arranged as a kind of dictionary, with explanations of terms in alphabetical order. There are some interlinear and marginal glosses.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
42r-75v
Supplied Title:
Tractatus tercius de cibis et potibus. Caput primum de pane.
Rubric:
Tractatus tercius de cibis et potibus. Caput primum de pane.
Incipit:
Panis melioris nutriti est ille qui confectus est
Explicit:
ad libros Avicenne et Galieni et aliorum medicoru
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Anno domini 1399 finitus est iste liber in vigilia apostolorum Phylippi et Jacobi. Deo gratias.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
75v - 76r
Supplied Title:
Notes.
Language(s):
Latin
Manuscript Text
Folio:
76r-226r
Author:
Johannes Balbi De Janua Op
Supplied Title:
Catholicon
Incipit:
Aalma interpretatur virgo abscondita
Explicit:
zozimus -maum interpretatur vivax vel timidus. Sit
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
226v-227v blank.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
228r-236r
Supplied Title:
Ars scribendi epistolas
Incipit:
De papa: a Ad Imperatorem, b Ad reges
Explicit:
Et omnes alii layci descripti sagaces.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
A collection of charts and other materials illustrating good epistolary style. The tow following texts, at least, also circulated independently. 237r blank.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
237v-238r
Supplied Title:
Incipit scriptum sancti Johannis baptiste editum ex omnibus floribus artis Rethoricae per Stephanum pragensem [?] anno 1395.
Incipit:
Inter natos mulierum Non fuit maior iohanne Qui co
Explicit:
Michi sit eterna quies etc.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
238v-239r blank.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
239v-240r
Author:
Odoricus
Supplied Title:
Epistula ad Henrico de Rotenburg
Rubric:
Egregio ac potenti viro domino Henrico de Rotenburg Captits Tirol domino suo praecipuo.
Incipit:
Potens et gloriose domine mi quia pridie vobis pro
Explicit:
Velitis michi providere de una bona.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Datum Tridenti viii Julii 1399. Vester servitor fidelis Odoricus de archiepiscopo, aracium et medicine doctor. 240r (lower left corner) pen trials. 240v not filmed.
