Practica Iohannis Serapionis (DS11885) (Q51020)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Ohio State University (Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.468, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.468)
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Practica Iohannis Serapionis (DS11885)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Ohio State University (Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.468, Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.468)

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    Practica Iohannis Serapionis
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    Extent: fols. 1; membrane; 305 x 218 (190 x 128)
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    Layout: 2 columns, 49 lines
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    Decoration: 4 2-line initials in red with faint contrasting penwork opening new chapters, rubrics and textual underlining in red
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    Bifolium recycled as a wrapper for a later accounts book dated 1586
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    Provenance: Medieval, and later, ownerwhip by the Hôtel-Dieu de Beaufort-en-Vallée in Anjou
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    Fragment recycled as a bookbinding for a 16th-century account book at the Hôtel-Dieu de Beaufort-en-Vallée in Anjou. The original manuscript was likely used at this hospital. 13th-century translation into Latin of the 9th-century Syriac medical treatise Serapion.
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    The translator, Gerard of Cremona is not to be confused with the 12th-century translator of Aristotle by the same name.
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    Incipit: Fol. 468.1: et confert et cauterium
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    Fol. 468.2: propter illud qod sumitur in comestione
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    Explicit: Fol. 468.1: lanam inunctam oleo…in quo decoctum est
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    Fol. 468.2: cum eis utrique spica inda et miscetur
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    Text from Tractatus IV, Ch. 10-12 (fol. 468.1) and Ch. 20-21 (fol. 468.2), on the topics of the kidneys and bladder and the extraction of kidney stones
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    26 August 2024
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    26 August 2024
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