The following is a Handlist of Latin manuscripts containing medical material that pre-dates the year 1000. This Handlist will be continuously updated and extended as new material is discovered. One purpose of the Handlist has been to think expansively about what is defined as “medical” for this period—the Tags listed and defined below should provide guidance as to what was included under the umbrella understanding of medicine. These Tags should also aid in navigating the Handlist; one manuscript, or one text within a manuscript, may have multiple Tags.
This is a Beta version of the Handlist. The last update was on June 27, 2025.
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Acknowledgments: While the CEMLM team – Claire Burridge, Jeffrey Doolittle, Meg Leja, James Palmer, and Carine van Rhjin – has co-authored this Handlist, its development never would have been possible with the support of many friends and colleagues, as well as our institutions and funding bodies. In particular, we should like to thank Anna Dorofeeva, Sarah Gilbert, Tim Hertogh, Rosamond McKitterick, Bram van den Berg, and Irene van Renswoude for alerting us to additional manuscripts and/or sharing their expertise. We should also like to thank Ildar Garipzanov and his ERC-funded MINiTEXTS project for their collaboration, as well as the British Academy for their generous support via the Academy Research Project scheme.
| Tags | Notes |
| Associated material | For texts that are often associated with medical material but are not explicitly related to health (e.g., treatises on weights and measures). |
| Calendrical material | For texts that deal with the organisation or conceptualisation of time, with a medical component. |
| Dietetics | For texts that focus especially on foods and their qualities. |
| Encyclopaedia | For texts dealing with the collection of knowledge (including Book 4 of Isidore’s Etymologiae as a stand-alone text). |
| Exorcism | For texts that include the removal of demons (via natural or spiritual means, or any combination thereof) in a medical context. |
| Figure | For diagrams, shapes, or schematics that accompany texts or stand alone (e.g. rotae, spheres of life and death). |
| Fragment | For manuscript fragments containing medical material (e.g. binding matter or archival membra disiecta). This does not include partial manuscripts. |
| Glossary/hermeneumata | For a list of medically orientated words (often, but not exclusively, materia medica) that are paired with a synonym, translation, and/or brief explanation. |
| Herbal | For a discursive medical text arranged by base ingredient (kinds of herb, spice, oil, etc.). |
| Illustration | For drawings and pictures illustrating medical procedures and materia medica. |
| Letter | For a text on a medical topic, often labelled “epistola” but not necessarily composed as a letter with an identified sender or recipient. |
| List | For any list of items that are related to medicine but do not necessarily include the features of another tag, such as a recipe, glossary, etc. (e.g. lists of materia medica, instruments, quid pro quo, etc.). |
| Lunary | For texts that provide information about health and medicine on the basis of the 30-day lunar cycle (see also: prognostics). |
| Medical compendium | For manuscripts that are entirely (or almost entirely) focused on health and medicine. |
| Medical section | For parts of manuscripts in which various medical texts seem to form a unit (as seen in the codicology, arrangement of selections, titles added, etc). |
| Palimpsest | For undertext on a re-used leaf. |
| Phlebotomy | For texts related to bloodletting. |
| Prayer/charm | For short texts (usually), often invoking God or saints, which were intended to be spoken out loud, written down, worn on the body, or consumed, and which were used to target specific medical conditions. |
| Prognostics | For texts providing insight into future happenings through the observation of signs. This includes either a text that interprets a patient’s symptoms to predict the course of a disease or one that uses the cycles of lunar, solar, and/or calendrical time for the same purpose. |
| Recipe | For texts involving some combination of indications, lists of ingredients, instructions on preparation, administration, and dosage, and intended therapeutic effects. |
| Regimen | For texts with temporally structured advice on diet and lifestyle with the aim to preserve health. |
| Tract | For medical treatises on a distinct topic (often attributed to a recognizable author, whether authentic or pseudonymous). |
| Veterinary medicine | For medical writings, such as recipes, that primarily concern non-human animals. |
THE HANDLIST
ANGERS
BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE
[#1] MS 477 (461)
Link: https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fbvmm.irht.cnrs.fr%2Fiiif%2F1097%2Fmanifest
Overview
● 99 fols; 312 x 240 mm
● Composite ms of 3 units bound together at an early date (s. X?)
○ Units 1 and 3 date to s. IXex/X
○ Unit 2 (fols 9r–87v), containing the medical material, dates to 897 and was written by a Breton scribe (either in Brittany or northern Francia)
Contents
● Unit 2 is a miscellany, with computus texts, excerpts from Bede, and a formula for an ordeal, as well as medical material outlined below
● Contains around 450 Old Breton glosses
Medical material
● Comments: fols 15v–16v contain marginalia on the properties of stones, metals, and weights (drawn from the Etymologiae, bks XVI–XVIII). Fol. 18v contains a marginal definition of medicina (also from the Etymologiae, bk IV), which continues on fols 20v–21r with Isidore’s discussion of the humors. Fol. 30r contains the charm Ad (pro)fluuium mulieris, and fols 37r–43r also contain marginal glosses drawn from Isidore’s Etymologiae, some of which are relevant to medical learning.
● Tags: associated material, encyclopaedic, herbal, prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #68–69; IrCaBriTT #9
ARRAS
BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE
[#2] MS 650 (569)
Link: https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md32r494z09w
Overview
● 129 fols; 310 x 225 mm
● s. IX2/2, northeast France, at Saint-Vaast by s. XII
Contents
● Hrabanus Maurus, Commentaria in libros IV Regum
Medical material
● Comments: incantations and recipes (both human and veterinary) added s. X at fol. 103r.
● Tags: prayer/charm, recipe, veterinary medicine
Literature
● Bischoff #89
[#3] MS 709 (636)
Link: https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/24854/manifest
Overview
● 195 fols; 260 x 235 mm
● s. IX3/3, origin northeast Francia (possibly Soissons), later at Saint-Vaast
Contents
● Exegetical and moral works (including Epiphanius, Sixtus, and Jonas of Orléans)
Medical material
● Comments: recipe added s. X at fol. 144v.
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #96
BAMBERG
STAATSBIBLIOTHEK
[#4] Msc. Lit. 158
Link: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/details/bsb00140784
Overview
● 190 fols; 242 x 180 mm
● s. Xex, origins Malmedy
Contents
● Martyrology of Ado of Vienne
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 14v contains a list of Egyptian Days and Critical Mondays with reference to bloodletting.
● Tags: phlebotomy, prognostics
Literature
● Hoffmann (1995), 149.
[#5] Msc. Patr. 101
Link: https://zendsbb.digitale-sammlungen.de/db/0000/sbb00000168/images/index.html?seite=6&signatur=Msc.Patr.101
Overview
● 148 fols; 225 x 145 mm
● s. IX/X, central Italy
Contents
● Theological miscellany with works by Augustine, Isidore, Bede
Medical material
● Comments: large sphere of life and death on fol. 1v.
● Tags: figure, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #236
BARCELONA
ARCHIVO DE LA CORONA DE ARAGÓN
[#6] Frag. 33
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 1 bifol.; 382 x 299 mm
● s. X, southern Italy (Campania?), Beneventan script
Contents
● Latin Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates (partial)
Medical material
● Comments: single bifolio used as a cover for a notarial manual from s. XVI at Sant Lorenç de les Arenes. Text transcribed by Jesús Alturo i Perucho, “Manuscrits i documents en escriptura beneventana conservats a Catalunya,” in Studia in codicum fragmenta (Bellaterra, 1999), 59–101, at 62–71.
● Tags: fragment, tract
Literature
● BMB #BCA 33; Lowe and Brown (1980), 2.15.
[#7] Ripoll 59
Link: http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/show/2278573
Overview
● 306 fols; 310 x 250 mm
● s. X/XI, Catalonia; in 1044 purchased by the cathedral of Barcelona
Contents
● Primarily Priscian, with glossaries and excerpts of Bede’s De temporum ratione
● Contains the only extant commentary by Eriugena on Priscian (fols 257v–288v)
Medical material
● Comments: a calendar at fols 195r–200v includes regimen instructions added at the end of each month. There is an extract of Quintus Serenus’s Liber medicinalis at fol. 306v.
● Tags: regimen, tract
Literature
● García Villada (1915), 34–35.
[#8] Ripoll 106
Link: http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/show/1994850
Overview
● 140 fols; 273 x 230 mm
● Composite ms of 2 units held by the monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll
○ Unit 1 (fols 1–8) dates to s. XII and was added to the main unit
○ Unit 2, containing the medical material, dates to s. X and was produced in Catalonia (with additions from s. XI)
Contents
● Miscellany with rhetoric, computus, and theology
Medical material
● Comments: there is a set of Egyptian Days (with reference to illness) added in s. X on fol. 115v. Recipes added in s. XIex fill the first page of the main unit (fol. 9r).
● Tags: prognostics, recipe
Literature
● García Villada (1915), 56–58.
BASEL
UNIVERSITÁTSBIBLIOTHEK
[#9] F III 15a
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/ubb/F-III-0015a
Overview
● 32 fols; 250 x 190 mm
● Composite ms of 2 units, bound together at Fulda s. IXex, still in its Carolingian binding
○ Unit 1 (fols 1–23), containing the medical material, dates to s. VIII/IX and was probably written at Fulda; originally bound together with Copenhagen, KB fragm 2809–2810
○ Unit 2 (fols 24–32) dates to s. VIII/IX, probably written at Fulda, with additions from s. IX1/2
Contents
● Primarily Isidore’s De natura rerum (with diagrams and maps) and Differentiae, as well as a letter of Jerome
● Also contains the earliest catalogue of the Fulda library
Medical material
● Comments: the Basler Rezepte (two recipes in Latin and Old High German) is on fol. 17r, and on fols 17v–18r there is a “Veronica” charm against excessive bleeding. On fol. 23r there is a circular zodiologium that links the 12 signs with the health of various body parts
● Tags: figures, prayer/charm, prognostics, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #271–272; CLA VII, #842
[#10] L III 3
Link: not digitised, online record at https://swisscollections.ch/Record/991170517578205501
Overview
● 9 fols; 265 x 195 mm
● ca. 1000, place of production unknown
● fragments were bound together in s. XX and belong to the same manuscript as the fragments N I 2:31
Contents
● Computistic texts with tables, lunaries, annals, and a poem by Walahfrid Strabo
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 2r–v contains a general lunary attributed to Daniel with some information about health; this is followed (fol. 2v) by a bloodletting lunary.
● Tags: fragment, lunary, phlebotomy, prognostics
Literature
● Hoffmann (1986), 233.
BERLIN
STAATSBIBLIOTHEK ZU BERLIN
[#11] MS lat. fol. 381 no. 1
Link: not digitised, online record at https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/1510
Overview
● 1 fol.; dimensions unavailable
● 550–650, Italy, uncial (later belonged to Hildesheim Library)
● This parchment fragment was once part of a manuscript also containing Hildesheim Dombibliothek 658
Contents
● Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarius
Medical material
● Comments: the fragment contains chapters 23, 24, and 32 of the Herbarius. This Berlin fragment has been inaccessible since 1945.
● Tags: fragment, herbal, illustration
Literature
● CLA VIII, #1050
[#12] Phillipps 1817
Link: https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN82999825X&PHYSID=PHYS_0062&DMDID=DMDLOG_0002&view=overview-toc
Overview
● 28 fols; 210 x 195 mm
● s. X
Contents
● Excerpts of Cicero’s Tusculanae disputationes and Eriugena’s Expositio Martiani
● Main text is glossed with some instances of Old High German (fols 18v and 19v)
Medical material
● Comments: the very end of the codex (fol. 28v) contains the first few lines of a recipe for curing fistula. The recipe is in the same hand as the main text.
● Tags: recipe literature
Literature
● Rose (1893), 1.395–97.
[#13] Phillipps 1833
Link: https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN83017379X&PHYSID=PHYS_0114&DMDID=DMDLOG_0029
Overview
● 62 fols; 230 x 220 mm
● s. X, Fleury
Contents
● Computus collection with materials by Victor Aquitanus, Isidore, Bede, Abbo of Fleury, Alcuin, and Hrabanus Maurus
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 53v contains a sphere of life and death, with accompanying explanation and lists
● Tags: figures, prognostics
Literature
● Rose (1893), 1.308–315.
BERN
BURGERBIBLIOTHEK
[#14] MS 178
Link: not digitised, online record at http://katalog.burgerbib.ch/detail.aspx?ID=129266
Overview
● 116 fols; 300–310 x 220–230 mm
● Composite ms of 4 distinct units, with units 2–4 bound together early on
○ Unit 1 (fols 1 and 2), containing the medical material, dates to s. IX3/3, Paris region
○ Units 2–4 (fols 3–116) date to s. IX3/3, Loire region
Contents
● Main unit is a miscellany of primarily grammatical works, including glossaries, Alcuin’s De orthographia, works by Isidore, Bede, and pseudo-Cicero
● First unit is entirely medical works
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 1r–v contains three spheres of life and death (with no explanation or instructions); fols 1v–2r contain two recipes, one for purging the stomach and one ad inpetiginis.
● Tags: figures, medical section, prognostics, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #546–547
[#15] MS 199
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bbb/0199
Overview
● 140 fols; 280–295 x 230–245 mm
● Composite ms of 3 units:
○ Unit 1 (fols 1–2) dates to s. VIII
○ Unit 2 (fols 3–137) dates to s. IX4/4, around Reims
○ Unit 3 (fols 138–140), which contains the medical material, dates to s. IX/X, possibly Fleury
Contents
● Unit 3 contains Jerome’s Vita Sancti Pauli
● Units 1 and 2 contain a biblical fragment and Gregory of Tours’ Miracula
Medical material
● Comments: a childbirth incantation was added in s. X to fol. 140v.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● CLA VII, #859; Bischoff #551
[#16] MS 224
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bbb/0224
Overview
● 224 fols; 300 x 215 mm
● s. IXin, from the scriptorium of Theodulf of Orléans, likely in Saint-Mesmin-de-Micy, then held in Strasbourg where some texts were added in s. X and s. XI.
Contents
● Primarily works by Isidore but the codex also contains a selection of grammatical texts, computus, glossaries, and formularies
Medical material
● Comments: within Isidore’s Etymologiae (fols 3r–150v) are a number of marginal additions, especially surrounding full-page diagrams: fol. 73v contains a glossary of herbs with Old High German and one recipe; fol. 74r contains several prayers against specific conditions and a recipe; fol. 74v contains a recipe, an amulet, and prayers; fol. 75r contains two medical recipes and a penitential absolution.
● Tags: glossary, prayer/charm, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #557
[#17] MS 236 (B)
Link: not digitised, online record at http://katalog.burgerbib.ch/detail.aspx?ID=362266
Overview
● 181 fols (numbered 2–182; fols 1 and 183 are MS 236A); 285–295 x 195 mm
● Dated precisely to 911 based on a scribal note (fols 3r and 182r), Fleury; glosses and notes added by contemporaneous and slightly later hands.
Contents
● Primarily a Latin glossary
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 2r contains two lunaries, one of which is entitled De egrotis and concerns illness; fol. 182r contains a brief healing prayer for a bleeding woman, inserted below a poem by Alcuin that was also added after the main text.
● Tags: lunary, prayer/charm, prognostic
Literature
● Mostert (1989), 66–67.
[#18] MS 250
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bbb/0250/21v/0/Sequence-1205
Overview
● 28 fols; 275–290 x 225–230 mm
● Composite ms of 2 units, with the first the product of a meeting between Einhard and Lupus of Ferrières in 836. It was probably combined with Bern, MS 306 originally.
○ Unit 1 (fols. 1–12) dates to 836, Seligenstadt
○ Unit 2 (fols. 13–28) dates to ca. 1000, Fleury
Contents
● A computus miscellany, including works by Victor of Aquitaine, Abbo of Fleury and Helperic of Auxerre.
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 11v contains a short note on weights and measures; in the top margin of fol. 21v are three recipes against liver pain with an invocation in a different hand.
● Tags: associated material, prayer/charm, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #562
[#19] MS 318
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bbb/0318/130v/0/Sequence-34
Overview
● 131 fols; 255 x 180 mm
● ca. 830, Hautvilliers; with later additions from s. IX/X
Contents
● Best known as the “Bern Physiologus” (fols 7r–22v)
● Primarily Fredegar’s Chronicon; also contains a vita, a sermon, and Biblical excerpts
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 41r contains a list of Egyptian Days (later addition); fol. 130v contains two recipes against head pain and paralysis (also in a later hand).
● Tags: prognostics, recipe
Literature
● Von Steiger and Homburger (1964); Bischoff #574
[#20] MS 334
Link: not digitised, online record at https://katalog.burgerbib.ch/detail.aspx?ID=409008
Overview
● 356 fols; 230 x 160–185 mm
● Composite ms of 5 units, ranging in date from s. IX–XIII,
○ Unit 4 (B) (fols 240–352), containing the medical material, dates to s. IX2/3, northeast France (with 11 of the 113 folios added in s. XII)
Contents
● Unit IV contains the Epistulae Pauli
Medical material
● Comments: incantations were added in s. X to fol. 352r.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #575
[#21] MS 425
Link: not digitised, online record at http://katalog.burgerbib.ch/detail.aspx?ID=129476
Overview
● 78 fols; 235 x 205 mm
● s. IX3/3, Reims, with later additions from s. X
Contents
● Primarily a canon law collection (the Dacheriana)
● Also contains letters from Gregory the Great, pseudo-Cyprian’s De duodecim, and an excerpt from Alcuin added later.
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 78r–v contains a sphere of life and death.
● Tags: figure, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #593
[#22] MS 441
Link: not digitised, online record at https://katalog.burgerbib.ch/detail.aspx?ID=130921
Overview
● 16 fols; 205–215 x 145–155 mm
● ca. 950, Loire Valley
Contents
● Computus miscellany, with a calendar, prognostics, prayers, and two copies of a treatise on Easter
Medical material
● Comments: fols 15r–16r contains a general lunary with information about health
● Tags: lunary, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #596 (under); Borst (2004), 141–43.
[#23] MS 584
Link: not digitised, online record at http://katalog.burgerbib.ch/detail.aspx?ID=129615
Overview
● 148 fols; 210 x 180 mm
● s. IX3/3, Reims
Contents
● Primarily works by Gottschalk of Orbais
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 147v contains a short poem entitled De diebus Aegiptiacis, followed by a list of the relevant days and a note that includes a warning about bloodletting (Bischoff dates this addition to s. X/XI)
● Tags: prognostics, phlebotomy
Literature
● Bischoff #605
[#24] MS 611
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bbb/0611
Overview
● 153 fols; 180–190 x 140–145 mm; one quire now part of Paris, BnF lat. 10756
● ca. 720, Bourges (fols 116–45 are a palimpsest from s. V and s. VII)
Contents
● Miscellany of grammatical, patristic, computistic, and medical texts
● Also contains the Physiologus at fols 116v–138v
Medical material
● Comments: fols 82v–85v contain Galen’s Epistola de febribus; fols 146r–153v contain De arte medica (a composite text including passages from the Hippocratic Dynamidia on nuts and fruits, the prologue to the Old Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms, extracts from Pseudo-Apuleius and the Teraupetica, plus recipes for various conditions); fol. 68v of Paris 10756 contains an illness lunary.
● Tags: herbal, letter, lunary, prognostics, recipe, tract
Literature
● Sabbah et al. (1987), #273; Dorofeeva (2023); Ganz (2019), 265–80; Palmer (2023), esp. 22–7.
[#25] MS F 219 III
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bbb/F0219-III/1v/0/Sequence-2522
Overview
● 18 fols; 345 x 245 mm; other parts of the same codex are now in Paris, BnF lat. 10233
● s. VII2/2, likely Spain, uncial; later owned by Chartres cathedral
Contents
● Oribasius’s Synopsis
Medical material
● Comments: the 18 fols cover parts of book VI of Oribasius’s Synopsis. The text of this manuscript was published by Hermann Hagen, De Oribasii versione latina Bernensi commentatio (Bern, 1975).
● Tags: fragment, medical compendium, tract
Literature
● Sabbah et al. (1987), #440
BRUSSELS
KBR
[#26] MS 5325–5327
Link: https://uurl.kbr.be/1449091
Overview
● 173 fols; 275 x 205 mm
● ca. 850, possibly northern France
Contents
● Works by Virgil (Georgics and Aeneid) with accompanying commentary by Servius
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 165v contains an image of a plant (one of only 2 images in the entire manuscript) and marginal glosses on medical substances mentioned in the main text (the Aeneid). Some of the glosses come from the Servius commentary but the gloss accompanying the image is drawn from the Herbarius of pseudo-Apuleius.
● Tags: figure, herbal, illustration
Literature
● Bischoff #712
[#27] MS 5413–5422
Link: https://uurl.kbr.be/1449095
Overview
● 128 fols; 195 x 156 mm; the last 4 folios are in fragmentary form
● Composite ms of 5 distinct parts, with a letter from Hincmar of Reims in the flyleaves
○ Units 1–3 (fols 1–41, 42–49, and 50–62) ca. 850, Reims
○ Unit 4 (fols 63–108 and 117–124), containing the medical material (on fol. 108v), dates to s. IX3/3, northeast Francia
○ Unit 5 (fols 125–128) s. IX1/2, Brittany
Contents
● Collection of canon law, with computistic and astronomical texts
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 108v contains excerpts from the pseudo-Dioscorides De herbis femininis (an addition from s. X). This version is edited by Hubert Silvestre, “Notices et extraits des manuscrits 5413-22, 10098-105 et 10127-44 de la Bibliothèque royale de Bruxelles,” Sacris Erudiri 5 (1953): 182–84.
● Tags: herbal, tract
Literature
● Sabbah et al. (1987), #212; Bischoff #715–719
[#28] MS 8780–8793
Link: https://belgica.kbr.be/BELGICA/doc/SYRACUSE/17328213/collection-of-canonical-texts-councils-and-rules-ms-8780-93
Overview
● 129 fols; 178 x 118 mm
● s. VIII, northern France
Contents
● Penitential and canon law material, with several monastic rules
Medical material
● Comments: fols 128v–129r contain a prayer against fever.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● CLA X, #1543; Bischoff #725
CAMBRIDGE
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE
[#29] MS 223
Link: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/th953kw1763
Overview
● 170 fols (340 numbered pages); 245 x 180mm
● s. IX¾, Abbey of Saint-Vaast (note: moved to Saint-Bertin at Saint-Omer by s. IXex and some leaves were added to the beginning of the ms; moved to England by s. X (possibly with Grimald of Saint-Bertin) where further additions and glosses, some in OE, were also added)
Contents
● Primarily consists of works by Prudentius
● Also contains the only extant copy of a poem by John Scotus Eriugena and additions such as annals, recipes, a calendar, glosses in OE, etc.
Medical material
● Comments: several recipes were added to the opening page (fol. 1v/p.1; s. IXex), including one for an incense preparation; ingredients in the second recipe have been glossed in OE
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #816; Gneuss (2001), #70; Lendinara (2007), 87.
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
[#30] MS Add. 6324
Link: not digitised
Overview
● Fragments: 2 independent fols; 333–334 x 88–123 mm
● s. X2/2, Italy, Beneventan script
Contents
● Medical recipes
Medical material
● Comments: it appears that both fragments would have been part of larger compendia; fol. 1 has been tentatively associated with Aesculapius’ Liber unus de morborum, infirmitatem, passionumque corporis humani causis. The folder holding the fragments also contains notes of Henry Sigerist and Sir Ellis Minns regarding the fragments.
● Tags: fragment, recipe
Literature
● Pink (2021)
CHAMPVENT
SAMMLUNG KARL LEISTER
[#31] Fragment, unnumbered
Link: not digitised, online record at https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/1651
Overview
● 4 fols; ca. 280 x 180 mm
● s. VIIIex, Rhaetia
● This fragment of four leaves from the same gathering (formerly Donaueschingen, Hofbibliothek, Fragm. (925) E I 10) was originally part of the same codex with Munich, BSB, Clm. 29684 and Dillingen, Studienbibliothek, XV Fragm. 24, and likely Dillingen, Studienbibliothek, XV Fragm. 24a. These fragments were found in an early printed book in the library.
Contents
● Medical recipes
Medical material
● Comments: the recipes were originally part of a larger numbered collection; here, they are arranged numerically from 36 to 60 and 76 to 90. This fragment was discussed by Beccaria as “Donaueschingen, Fst. Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek” unnumbered.
● Tags: fragment, recipe
Literature
● Beccaria #53; Bischoff #1017; CLA VIII, #1177; Vázquez Buján (2018), 37–61; Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co (1982); Wunderle (2006), 445–46.
CLERMONT-FERRAND
BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE
[#32] MS 201
Link: partially digitised at https://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/1670
Overview
● 104 fols; 260 x 185 mm
● s. IX/X, southern France
Contents
● Lex Romana Visigothorum
Medical material
● Comments: medical incantations added to fols 8r, 89v–90v in s. X1/2. The material on fol. 89v includes Old Provencal.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #928; Bischoff (1984), 261–65.
COLOGNE
ERZBISCHÖFLICHE DIÖZESAN- UND DOMBIBLIOTHEK
[#33] MS 83 II
Link: https://digital.dombibliothek-koeln.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:kn28-3-420
Overview
● 219 fols; 365 x 265 mm
● ca. 800, Cologne
Contents
● Computus and astronomical collection, including Isidore’s Chronicon and De natura rerum, selections from the Etymologiae, and Bede’s De temporum ratione
● Also contains the revised Aratus Latinus
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 218v contains a sphere of life and death.
● Tags: figures, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #1907; CLA VIII, #1154
COPENHAGEN
KONGELIGE BIBLIOTHEK
[#34] MS GKS 1335 4°
Link: https://permalink.kb.dk/permalink/2006/manus/77/eng/
Overview
● 20 fols; 233 x 155 mm
● s. IXex, eastern France
● The ms may originally have been part of one volume with GKS 1943 4°
Contents
● An early Latin copy of the Evangelium Nicodemi as well as legal material
Medical material
● Comments: a medical incantation was added to fol. 1v in s. X1/2.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #1985
CREMONA
ARCHIVIO DI STATO
[#35] Arch. not. Fragm. Cod. 1
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 1 bifol.; 273 x 195 mm
● s. Xex, southern Italy, Beneventan script
Contents
● Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarius
Medical material
● Comments: single bifolium used as cover for notarial acts of Cristoforo Drizzona, 1519–1524; text contains excerpts of the chapter Herba plantago with four images of a scorpion, two herbs and a serpent.
● Tags: fragment, herbal, illustration
Literature
● BMB #CRA 1; Brown (2012), 12; Cau (1969–70), 21–34 and plates 1–4; Lowe and Brown (1980), 2.36.
DEN HAAG
MUSEUM MEERMANNO
[#36] MS 10. D. 7
Link: https://manuscripts.kb.nl/search/simple/pseudo+apuleius/page/1
Overview
● 90 fols; 235 x 170 mm
● s. IX/X, France
Contents
● Incomplete texts of a collection of herbals
Medical material
● Comment: the ms includes pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica; pseudo-Apuleius Herbarius; and Sextus Placitus, Liber medicinae ex animalibus; these texts contain 167 line drawings of plants and animals.
● Tags: herbal, illustration, medical compendium, recipe, tract
Literature
● Bischoff #1449; Collins (2000), 228.
DILLINGEN
STUDIENBIBLIOTHEK
[#37] XV fragm. 24
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 4 fragments: upper and lower halves of 2 fols; 125–138 x 270–280 mm
● s. VIIIex, Rhaetia, uncial
● These fragments were originally part of the same codex with Munich, BSB, Clm. 29684 and Champvent, Samm. Karl Leister, fragment unnumbered; they were extracted from the binding of an early modern book of Dionysius the Areopagite’s works
Contents
● Galenic fragments
Medical material
● Comments: the fragments contain text drawn from Galen, Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo libri II
● Tags: fragment, tract
Literature
● Bischoff #1017; CLA VIII, #1177; Wunderle (2006), 445–46.
[#38] XV fragm. 24a
Link: https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00005814/images/index.html?id=00005814&groesser=&fip=xdsydeayaewqsdasqrsxdsydewqeayaewqewq&no=7&seite=1
Overview
● fragment of 2 fols; 255–265 x 180 mm
● s. VIIIex/s.IXin Rhaetia, uncial (similar to the hand of fragment 24)
● These might be from the same volume as Dillingen, XV fragm. 24, Munich, BSB Clm. 29684, and Champvent, Samm. Karl Leister, fragment unnumbered.
Contents
● Antidotarium
Medical material
● Comments: one of the recipes is the same as that in Paris, BnF lat. 6114, fol. 81v, at the end of Cassius Felix’s De medicina.
● Tags: fragment, recipe
Literature
● Wunderle (2006), 446–48.
DUBLIN
ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY
[#39] MS D.II.3 (Stowe Missal)
Link: https://www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_D_ii_3.html
Overview
● 67 fols; 150 x 120 mm
● 801–810, Birr or Roscrea (Ireland)
Contents
● Sacramentary, mostly in Latin but with some Old Irish
Medical material
● Comments: a Latin medical incantation was added to fol. 67v in s. IX1/2; this fol. also contains medical incantations in Old Irish.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● CLA II, #268
DURHAM
CATHEDRAL LIBRARY
[#40] MS A. IV. 19 (The Durham Ritual)
Link: https://iiif.durham.ac.uk/index.html?manifest=t2m0p096691f&canvas=t2tb5644s32x
Overview
● 89 fols; 247 x 165 mm
● s. Xin, England; ms consists of at least two distinct layers:
○ fols 1–61r form an original core, produced in southern England; soon after production, sent to Saint-Cuthbert in Chester-le-Street, Northumbria; there, ca. 970, blank folios at the end of the volume were filled, new quires were inserted, and glosses in Old English were added
○ fols 61v–88v contain the later Northumbrian additions
○ fol. 89 is a Northumbrian leaf from s. VIII
Contents
● Liturgical book with collects for the divine office, benedictions, prayers, exorcisms, masses, hymns, antiphons, and educational material
● Earliest collectar extant from England
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 61r contains a prayer against poison and fol. 86r–v De octo pondera de quibus factus est Adam (edited by Fischer, “De coelo vita”). Associated medical content includes blessings for grapes, bread, fruit, apples, and nuts (fols 47r, 63v); exorcisms (fols 48r, 54r, 58v, 67v); and blessings of water and unguents for the infirm (fols 55r–56r).
● Tags: associated material, dietetics, exorcism, prayer/charm, tract
Literature
● Fischer (2000), Suppl #103A; Keefer et al. (2007), #119; Jolly (2012), 230–359.
EINSIEDELN
STIFTSBIBLIOTHEK
[#41] MS 29 (878)
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/sbe/0029/101/0/Sequence-965
Overview
● 239 pp.; 200 x 158 mm
● Composite ms of 6 parts, ranging in date from s. IX–XIV
○ Part 2 (pp. 88–102), containing the medical material, dates to s. X, likely Einsiedeln
Contents
● As a whole, the codex has a focus on computus, astronomy, and exegesis of the Gospels
● Part 2 contains the Annales Heremi and various recipes
Medical material
● Comments: pp. 101–102 contain a number of recipes, for curing human as well as animal afflictions, as additions from s. X/XI; some of these also appear in Einsiedeln 319 (645) and 321 (647).
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Lang (2010), 159, 160, 166, 274.
[#42] MS 174 (807)
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 82 fols; 206 x 162 mm
● s. X, likely Einsiedeln
Contents
● Primarily Bede’s In actus apostolorum, with an accompanying glossary, a calendar, and a few computistic texts
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 68r contains a regimen that runs January through October and includes comments about the humors as well as food and drink.
● Tags: dietetics, regimen
Literature
● Meier (1899), 139–140; Lang (2009), 888.
[#43] MS 263 (973)
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 188 pp.; 190 x 160 mm
● s. X, origin unknown
Contents
● Several works of hagiography together with a unit focused on computus (pp. 125–188)
Medical material
● Comments: on the final page (p. 188) is a text entitled De asso balneo, followed by two short recipes.
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Meier (1899), 237–238.
[#44] 319 (645)
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/sbe/0319/280/0/Sequence-1011
Overview
● 300 pp.; 220 x 150 mm
● s. X/XI, Einsiedeln, with additions from s. XVI
Contents
● Primarily computus materials, with additional works on grammar and penance.
● Also contains the Apocalypse of Thomas, the Annales Einsidlenses, and a work on chess
Medical material
● Comments: on p. 280, there are several unusual remedies (including animal cures and one for beautifying the face), some of which also appear in Einsiedeln 29 (878) and 321 (647); this is followed by a statement about the usefulness of penance. On p. 281, a charm against bleeding. On p. 282, a text on Egyptian Days (with reference to bloodletting) sometimes attributed to Bede.
● Tags: phlebotomy, prayer/charm, prognostics, recipe, veterinary medicine
Literature
● Meier (1899), 288–291.
[#45] 321 (647)
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/searchresult/list/one/sbe/0321
Overview
● 200 pp.; 221 x 168 mm
● Composite ms of 3 units:
○ Unit 1 (pp. 1–26), which contains the medical material, dates to ca. 950, Einsiedeln
○ Unit 2 (pp. 27–156) ca. 874, Bodensee region
○ Unit 3 (pp. 157–198) s. XIII
Contents
● Computus material including the Irish Computus Einsidlensis (pp. 1–156) and Quaestiones morales (pp. 157–198)
Medical material
● Comments: pp. 4–16 contain a calendar with some Egyptian Days noted (no explanation); pp. 25–26 contain recipes (several of which are the same as those in Einsiedeln 29 (878) and 319 (645)).
● Tags: prognostics, recipe, veterinary medicine
Literature
● Bischoff #1131; Meier (1899), 292–294.
EL ESCORIAL
REAL BIBLIOTECA DE SAN LORENZO
[#46] MS L. III. 8
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 189 fols; 230 x 172 mm
● ca. 860–870, Senlis
Contents
● Pastoral manual, with moral texts, sermons, creeds, penitential material, a martyrology, computus material, and canon law
Medical material
● Comments: fols 184r–186v contain a general lunary with information about sickness; fols 187v–189r contain recipes
● Tags: lunary, prognostics, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #1195; Keefe (2002), 2.19–23; van Rhijn (2017), 272–97.
[#47] MS O. III. 31
Link: not digitised, online record at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12238/160
Overview
● 124 fols; 205 x 190 mm
● s. X2–3/3, western France
Contents
● Paul the Deacon’s Epitome festi de verborum significatu and Fulgentius’s Expositio sermonum antiquorum
Medical material
● Comments: a series of recipes was added to fol. 124v in s. X.
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #1198
ERFURT
BIBLIOTECA AMPLONIANA
[#48] MS 4° 90
Link: https://dhb.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/ufb_cbu_00019608
Overview
● 134 fols; measurements not available
● s. X2/2, Fulda (?)
Contents
● Augustine, Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John to the Parthians
Medical material
● Comments: a monthly regimen was added to fol. 134v in s. X; this is followed by a very short note in the same hand on the Dog Days (though the latter does not make an explicit reference to health/medicine).
● Tags: dietetics, prognostics, regimen
Literature
● Bischoff #1180
ERLANGEN
UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK
[#49] MS 2212–21
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 1 bifol.; measurements not available
● s. VIII2/2, uncertain origin (perhaps a centre in northeastern France?)
● Fragments derive from the same codex as Göttingen, Universitätsbibliothek Hist. Nat. 91 and Nuremberg, Stadtbibliothek Fragm. 2 a, c–h; all were discovered as binding.
Contents
● Dioscorides, De materia medica, fragments
Medical material
● Comments: the fragment contains text from Dioscorides’ De materia medica.
● Tags: fragment, herbal, tract
Literature
● CLA VIII, #1191
FLORENCE
BIBLIOTECA MEDICEA LAURENZIANA
[#50] MS Ashburnham 82
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 73 fols; 190 x 135 mm
● ca. 860–875, western France
● Formerly part of the same codex as fols 63–105 in Orléans, BM, MS 116 (94)
Contents
● Penitential material
Medical material
● Comments: two prognostic texts that concern, among other things, matters of health and disease for humans and other animals (namely, livestock) were added to the manuscript: a) a brontology on fols 16v–17r, and b) a year prognostic (partial) on fol. 63r.
● Tags: prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #3692; Mostert (1989) #529
BIBLIOTECA RICCARDIANA
[#51] MS 256
Link:http://teca.riccardiana.firenze.sbn.it/index.php/it/?view=show&myId=a13a3aac-223c-4466-bfc3-3bc9bf8a4edf
Overview
● 290 fols; 278 x 190 mm
● ca. 860–875, north Italy (possibly)
● Composite ms of 3 units, ranging in date from s. X to s. XII
○ Unit 1 (fols 1r–112v), s. XII1/2
○ Unit 2 (fols 113r–168v), s. XII1/2
○ Unit 3 (fols 169r–290v), containing the medical material, dates to s. X1/2
Contents
● Unit 3 contains a collection of works by Augustine including the Enchiridion ad Laurentium, De mendacio, and Contra mendacium.
Medical material
● Comments: two medical texts were added to the manuscript by different hands on fol. 290r: a) a recipe (s. IX/X), and b) a medical incantation (ca. 950–1020).
● Tags: prayer/charm, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #1252
GENEVA
BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE GENÈVE
[#52] MS lat. 50
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bge/lat0050/174v
Overview
● 174 fols; 315 x 210 mm
● ca. 825, Abbey of Massay (Bourges)
Contents
● Computus collection that includes multiple scientific works by Bede
● Also contains the only witness to the Annals of Massay
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 174v contains a recipe added in the bottom margin
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #1351
GIRONA
ARXIU DE LA CATEDRAL
[#53] Medica, unnumbered
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 1 bifol.; 370 x 282–287 mm
● s. X2/2, southern Italy, Beneventan script
● The fragment was reused as binding in s. XVII
Contents
● Receptarium
Medical material
● Comments: the recipes in this ms have been transcribed by Alturo i Perucho (1999), 71–77.
● Tags: fragment, recipe
Literature
● BMB #GRC 1; Brown (2012), 69.
GLASGOW
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, HUNTERIAN COLLECTION
[#54] MS Hunter 96 (olim T. 4. 13)
Link: https://www.gla.ac.uk/collections/#/details?irn=296466&catType=C&gdcEvent=hierarchy_item_view
Overview
● 186 fols (originally 192); 270 x 210 mm
● ca. 780–820, southern France or northern Italy
Contents
● Extensive medical compendium with a diverse assortment of texts
Medical material
● Comments: Herbal substitution tracts (fols 1a–17r); sphere of life and death with other prognostic diagrams and texts (fols 17v–18v); prognostic text (19r); Table of capitula for rest of manuscript (fols 20v–23r); These numbered capitula are in two lists, roughly, medical treatises in the first (cc. 1–157) and antidotes in the second (cc. 1–86) which give a structure to the entire manuscript. The first set of chapters includes texts on herbs, food, dietetics, and urology and sphygmology. The second set containing antidotes (fols 133r–177r, numbered 171r in the manuscript) has been edited by Henry Sigerist, Studien und Texte zur frühmittelalterlichen Rezeptliteratur (Leipzig, 1923), 99–159; An additional section of recipes and tracts on women’s health follows (fols 177v–183v); with a section on weights and measures (fol. 184r); Then, other remedies to the end of the manuscript (fols 184v–192r)
● Tags: associated material, dietetics, exorcism, figure, glossary/hermeneumata, herbal, letter, list, lunary, medical compendium, phlebotomy, prognostics, recipe, tract
Literature
● Bischoff, #1396; CLA II, #156; Young and Aitken (1908), 103–105.
GOTHA
FORSCHUNGSBIBLIOTHEK
[#55] MS Memb. I 17
Link: https://dhb.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/ufb_cbu_00028121
Overview
● 71 fols; 255 x 180 mm
● s. IX3/3, southwest Germany
Contents
● Greek-Latin psalter
Medical contents
● Comments: a series of notes derived from Isidore of Seville’s Sententiae (3.37.2) and Sedulius Scottus’ Collectaneum miscellaneum were added by multiple hands on fol. 4v in s. X1/2; one describes the ‘medical herb’ mandrake.
● Tags: encyclopaedia, herbal
Literature
● Bischoff #1417
GOTHENBURG
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
[#56] MS lat. 25
Link: https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/imageViewer.jsf?dsId=ATTACHMENT-0001&pid=alvin-record%3A120801&dswid=7091
Overview
● 16 fols; 200 x 125 mm, mutilated
● s. IX–X
Contents
● Computus texts including prognostics, zodiac signs, and finger calculation
Medical material
● Comments: fols 1r–5v contain a general lunary and a brontology that both include information about sickness
● Tags: lunary, prognostics
Literature
● Kleberg (1974).
GÖTTINGEN
NIEDERSÄCHSISCHE STAATS- UND UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK
[#57] Hist. nat. 91
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 6 fols; 280 x 210 mm
● s. VIII2/2, uncertain origin (perhaps a centre in northeastern France?)
● The fragments derive from the same codex as Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek MS 2212–21 and Nuremberg, Stadtbibliothek Fragm. 2 a, c–h; all were discovered as binding.
Contents
● Dioscorides, De materia medica
Medical material
● Comments: fragments contain extracts from Dioscorides’ De materia medica, including Book 3, Ch. 22–38, Book 4, Ch. 64–66, and Book 5, Ch. 73–76 and 79–82.
● Tags: fragment, herbal, tract
Literature
● CLA 8, #1191; Meyer (1893), 311–12.
HALBERSTADT
DOMSCHATZ
[#58] Inv.-Nr. 465–466
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 2 fols; 275–278 x 218–222 mm
● ca. 680–720, northern Italy
● The fragment was found in the binding of Halberstadt MS 22, a medical manuscript from s. XIV (today, St. Petersburg, Russian National Library, F. 955, op. 2, No. 76).
Contents
● Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarius
Medical material
● Comments: the fragment contains parts of chapters 1, 65, and 66 from the pseudo-Apuleius Herbarius. The Halberstadt fragment is itself a palimpsest, with the upper script being the pseudo-Apuleius text and the lower script a copy of the Codex Theodosianus from s. V2/2.
● Tags: fragment, herbal, illustration, palimpsest
Literature
● CLA VIII, #1211 and 1212; Carmassi (2018), 140–42.
HEIDELBERG
UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK
[#59] Cod. Sal. IX, 49
Link: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/salIX49/0010/image,info
Overview
● 185 fols; 260 x 200 mm
● ca. 1000, Reichenau
Contents
● Liturgical compilation of readings and votives masses
Medical material
● Comments: a text entitled De febriculis (fols 4v–5r) contains multiple protective prayers, including against various fevers
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Berschin (1983), 143.
HILDESHEIM
DOMBIBLIOTHEK
[#60] MS 658
Link: not digitised
Overview
● Binding offset, original folio now lost
● s. VI–VII, Italy, uncial (later belonged to Hildesheim Library)
● The fragment was once part of a manuscript also containing Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Preussischer Kulturbesitz MS lat. fol. 381 No. 1. The Hildesheim leaf survives only as an offset in glue residue inside the front cover; it was formerly used in the binding of a theological manuscript from s. XIII.
Contents
● Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarius
Medical material
● Comments: the fragment contains chapters 92 and 93 from the pseudo-Apuleius Herbarius.
● Tags: fragment, herbal
Literature
● CLA VIII, #1050
IVREA
BIBLIOTECA CAPITOLARE
[#61] MS 94 (XCII), frag. A
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 1 fol.; 335 x 235 mm
● s. VII, Italy, uncial
Contents
● Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarius
Medical material
● Comments: the fragment in question was removed from a binding and appears to contain an index to the pseudo-Apuleius Herbarius.
● Tags: fragment, herbal
Literature
● CLA VII, #301; Collins (2000), 229 n.126.
KARLSRUHE
BADISCHE LANDESBIBLIOTHEK
[#62] Aug. perg. 94
Link: https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbhs/Handschriften/content/pageview/10085
Overview
● 83 fols; 317 x 205 mm
● s. IX1/2, Reichenau
Contents
● Works by St Jerome
Medical contents
● Comments: fol. 83v contains several recipes added in s. X.
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #1624
[#63] Aug. perg. 167
Link: https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbhs/content/pageview/13329
Overview
● 49 fols; 281 x 199 mm
● s. IX2/3, northeastern France
Contents
● Mostly computus, with works by Bede, Isidore, and Hrabanus Maurus
Medical contents
● Comments: fol. 49r contains Egyptian Days, Three Critical Mondays, and Lunar Days, with reference to bloodletting (later addition).
● Tags: phlebotomy, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #1676
[#64] Aug. perg. 196
Link: https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbhs/content/pageview/3395704
Overview
● 191 fols; 245 x 163 mm
● s. IX1/3, eastern Francia/Alemania, with additions from s. X
Contents
● Primarily a catechesis, with additional work on penance, a text by Isidore, and Defensor’s Liber scintillarum
Medical contents
● Comments: fol. 1r contains a birth lunary that focuses in particular on vitality and illness (addition from s. X); fols 189r–191v contain a penitential ordo that urges sacred anointing for corporeal health.
● Tags: associated material, lunary, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #1693; Holder (1970), 444–448.
KASSEL
UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK
link: https://orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/image/1326713597631/290/LOG_0018/
Overview
● 145 fols; 230 x 165 mm
● s. VIIIex, France
Contents
● Isidore of Seville’s Homiliary, the Apocalypse of Thomas, and several sermons by Caesarius of Arles
Medical material
● Comments: fols 143v–144r contain Egyptian Days with reference to bloodletting and medicines.
● Tags: phlebotomy, prognostics
Literature
● Wiedemann (2015), 22.
LAON
BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE
[#66] Ms. 199
Link: https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/19638/canvas/canvas-1793395/view
Overview
● 138 fols; 273 x 160 mm
● s. IX2/4, Abbey of Saint-Amand (with additions from. s. IX/X)
Contents
● Material relating to the Lateran Council of 649
Medical material
● Comments: a single recipe was added to fol. 138r in s. X.
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #2089; Contreni (1990), 276–77.
[#67] Ms. 239
Link: https://bibliotheque-numerique.ville-laon.fr/ressources-numerisees/item/1457-graduel-de-laon?offset=1
Overview
● 88 fols; 225 x 185 mm
● s. IX4/4 (?), northeast France
Contents
● Antiphonary
Medical material
● Comments: medical incantations were added between ca. 950 and 1020 on fol. 3r.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #2094; Contreni (1990), 42; Gamber (1968) #1350, 511–12.
[#68] Ms. 439
Link: https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/19638/canvas/canvas-1793395/view
Overview
● 54 fols; 250 x 168 mm
● s. IX3/3, Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Contents
● Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Medical material
● Comments: a medical incantation was added to fol. 54v in s. X.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #2119; Contreni (1990), 46.
LEIDEN
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
[#69] BPL 126
Link: http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1680068
Overview
● 67 fols; 235 x 200 mm
● s. IX3/4, Reims (or around this area)
Contents
● Rule of Canons (Regula canonicorum concilii Aquisgranensis 816) and Regula formatarum
Medical material
● Comments: two incantations and a charm were added to fol. 67v in s. X/XI.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #2152
[#70] Scal. 28
Link: https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/1604325?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=9b8aeabb2f28c6cc14c1&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=0#page/9/mode/1up
Overview
● 141 fols, 302 x 165 mm
● ca. 816, Flavigny
Contents
● A computus collection with Bede’s Easter tables and other calendrical material
Medical material
● Comments: a SATOR square and a horse incantation were added to fol. 1v in s. X.
● Tags: prayer/charm, veterinary medicine
Literature
● Bischoff #2180
[#71] VLF 74
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 189 fols; 302 x 255
● Composite ms of 2 units, both composed in s. IX2/4
○ Unit 1 (fols 1–106) Loire region
○ Unit 2 (fols 107–189), containing the medical material, in Fulda
Contents
● Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae (Unit 1 books 1–10 and Unit 2 books 11–20)
Medical material
● Comments: a series of recipes and charms (treating humans as well as animals) were added to fol. 189r in s. IX/X. This manuscript is associated with the work of Lupus of Ferrières (and his hand appears at a few points).
● Tags: prayer/charm, recipe, veterinary medicine
Literature
● Bischoff #2200–2201
[#72] VLF 79
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 46 fols; 300 x 220 mm
● s. IX4/4, southern France
Contents
● Commentaries on several works by Vergil
Medical material
● Comments: a text on weights and measures is found on fol. 45v; there are several recipes on fols 45v–46v.
● Tags: associated materials, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #2202
[#73] VLF 96 A
Link: https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/3218234#page/1/mode/1up
Overview
● bifol.; 182 x 140–145 mm
● 800–900, Brittany or Cornwall, insular script
● Until 1908, this was part of Leiden, VLF 96, which was produced in s. XI at Fleury
Contents
● Fragment with recipes and a regimen in Latin, Old Irish, and Old Brittonic
Medical material
● Comments: medical recipes a capite, with Old Irish gloss (fol. 1r–v); medical recipes in mixed Latin and an Old Brittonic language (fol. 2r); a monthly regimen with (inverted) Egyptian Days (fol. 2v). The recipes are edited and translated in Falileyev and Owen (2005).
● Tags: fragment, prognostics, recipe, regimen
Literature
● Bischoff #2208; Sabbah et al. (1987), #177–178.
[#74] VLQ 9
Link: https://primarysources-brillonline-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/browse/vossiani-latini/vlq-009-herbaria-medicinalia (behind paywall)
Overview
● 104 fols; 260–275 x 195–200 mm
● Composite ms of 3 units, all containing medical material:
○ Unit 1 (fols 1–81) s. VI2/2–VII, southern Italy or Gaul, uncial
○ Unit 2 (fol. 82) s. XIII, Germany
○ Unit 3 (fols 83–104) s. VI2/2, southern Italy, uncial
Contents
● All 3 units are medical compendia and include recipes, charms, and gynaecological writings
Medical material
● Comments: core texts include the praecatio terrae matris and praecatio omnium herbarum; pseudo-Antonius Musa, De herba vettonica; pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarius; and Caelius Aurelianus, Gynaecia. The fragment of Caelius Aurelianus on fol. 82v is edited by Ermerins (1869), 303–304.
● Tags: illustrations, medical compendium, prayer/charm, recipe, tract
Literature
● Sabbah et al. (1987), #9, 5, 45, 76–78, 428, 502; CLA X, #1582
[#75] VLQ 116
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 109 fols; 220 x 190 mm
● 865–885, Reims
Contents
● Works relating to grammar: Sextus Pompeius Festus, De significatione verborum; Nonius Marcallus, De compendiosa doctrina; excerpts from Audax, Ars grammatica
Medical material
● Comments: fols 106v–107r contain a list of Egyptian Days with reference to bloodletting.
● Tags: phlebotomy, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #2238
LEIPZIG
UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK
[#76] Rep. I 53
Link: https://dfg-viewer.de/show/?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fiiif.ub.uni-leipzig.de%2F0000032725%2Fpresentation.xml&no_cache=1
Overview
● 11 fols; 255 x 215 mm
● s. IX/X, origin uncertain
Contents
● Walahfrid Strabo’s Hortulus (fols 1–10r)
Medical material
● Comments: fols 10v–11r contain short chapters on resins, winds, thunder, and lightning, with a passage titled De speciebus resinae including notes on the medical utility of substances. The Hortulus contains glosses in Latin and Old German (with Alemannic elements).
● Tags: associated material, herbal, tract
Literature
● Berschin, De cultura hortorum (2007), 22–23; Pensel, Verzeichnis (1998), 313.
LONDON
BRITISH LIBRARY
[#77] Add. MS 19725
Link: https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100055985644.0x000001
Overview
● 129 fols; 175–180 x 150 mm
● s. IX/X, eastern France
Contents
● The codex consists of two parts: the first (fols 2–87) is a compilation of material mostly pertaining to religious life and pastoral care, such as episcopal statutes, penitential material, Usuard’s martyrology, computistic texts, and parts of Gennadius of Marseilles’ De dogmatibus ecclesiasticis. The second part (fols 88–128) is a series of saints’ lives with monastic themes.
Medical material
● Comments: fols 5r, 8v, 37r, 40r, 41r, and 42v contain recipes added to the margins in several hands of s. X (including several recipes for animals).
● Tags: recipe, veterinary medicine
Literature
● Bischoff #2379–80; Sabbah et al. (1987), #182; Kerff (1983), 115–16.
[#78] Add. MS 22398
Link: https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059294012.0x000001
Overview
● 106 fols [fol. 1 = modern paper addition]; 267 x 215 mm
● s. IX3/4, France
Contents
● A mixed collection of texts with a largely legal focus (e.g., collection of capitularies, Lex Salica, Lex Riburaria), as well as a fragment of the Gospel of Matthew (fol. 2)
Medical material
● Comments: two Egyptian Days texts were added on fol. 104r–v in s. X; these are followed by a text on urine analysis on fol. 104v (also added s. X).
● Tags: phlebotomy, prognostics, tract
Literature
● Bischoff #2389; Mordek (1995), 220–23
[#79] Cotton MS Caligula A XV
Link: https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058106204.0x000001
Overview
● 153 fols; 230 x 220mm
● Composite ms of 2 units, both of which contain medical material:
○ Unit 1 (fols 3r–117r) s. VIII2/2 with a quire added in s. IXin, northeastern France
○ Unit 2 (fols 120r–153r) s. XIin, Christ Church, Canterbury, (material continued to be added into s. XIII); a combination of Latin and OE
Contents
● A mix of mostly theological, computistical, and prognostic texts
Medical material
● Comments: a very mixed collection with some prognostics in Unit 1 (e.g., bloodletting instructions on fol. 109v). Note that Unit 2, though slightly beyond this handlist’s timeframe, contains a larger proportion of medical-related material (e.g., sphere of life and death on fol. 125v; scattered charms over the following pages).
● Tags: associated material, figures, phlebotomy, prayer/charm, prognostics
Literature
● Watson (1979), #517.
[#80] Harley MS 1772
Link: https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056033924.0x000001
Overview
● 146 fols; 290 x 180 mm
● s. VIIIex–IXin, Reims, with additions in s. X–XIin
Contents
● Pauline Epistles and the Epistle of James, the Epistles of Peter, the Epistles of John, and the Book of Revelation
Medical material
● Comments: recipes, charms, and bloodletting material added to the margins of several pages in s. X and XIin (see fols 64r, 112v, and 122v–123r).
● Tags: phlebotomy, prayer/charms, prognostics, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #2442; Bischoff (1994), 28; Laffitte and Denoël (2007), 167.
[#81] Harley MS 2735
Link: https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056037106.0x000001
Overview
● 208 fols; 220 x 190 mm
● s. IX3/4, Auxerre
Contents
● Liber glossarum, with glosses and additions by Heiric of Auxerre, in his own hand.
Medical material
● Comments: four recipes in Heiric’s hand at fol. 207v.
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #2453
[#82] Harley MS 2965 (Book of Nunnaminster)
Link: https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058098397.0x000001
Overview
● 41 fols; measurements not available
● s. IX1/4, west Mercia
Contents
● Extracts from the Gospels and prayers
Medical material
● Comments: a medical incantation was added to fol. 40v (coeval with the manuscript’s main text)
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● CLA II, #199
[#83] Harley MS 3017
Link: not available
Overview
● 190 fols; 215 x 173 mm
● 862–64, likely Fleury
Contents
● Computus collection with severals works by Bede
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 58r contains a sphere of life and death; fol. 58v contains an illness lunary; fols 59v–60r contains a treatise on bloodletting.
● Tags: figure, lunary, phlebotomy, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #2466; Borst (2006), 1.244–45; Liuzza (2010), 22.
[#84] Harley MS 3091
Link: not available
Overview
● 141 fols; 280 x 200 mm
● s. IX2/3, Nevers, with additions from s. X
Contents
● Computistic and cosmological miscellany including works by Bede
● Paulinus of Aquileia’s Regula fidei added in s. X
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 1r contains recipes.
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #2476; Borst (2006), 1.245.
[#85] Harley MS 5792
Link: not available, online record at https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/521
Overview
● 277 fols; 295 x 210 mm
● s. VIII2/2, Italy
Contents
● Glossaries, including Latin to Greek and pseudo-Cicero’s Synonyma
Medical material
● Comments: fols 273v–276v contain an antidotarium, which has been edited in Sigerist (1923), 17–21. The first recipe has been reedited in Fischer (2011).
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #2489a; CLA II, #203; Sabbah et al. (1987), #24.
[#86] Royal MS 2 A XX
Link: not available
Overview
● 51 fols; 230 x 170 mm
● s. IXin, west Mercia
● Known as the Royal Prayer Book
Contents
● Prayerbook (libellus precum)
Medical material
● Comments: multiple charms/incantations against bleeding were added to the manuscript at various dates.The material on fol. 49r–v appears to be coeval with the manuscript’s main text (this includes symbols and is partially written in Greek), whereas the incantations on fol. 16v were added roughly a generation later, in s. IX2/4.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● CLA II, #215.
[#87] Royal MS 15 B XIX
Link: https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059911485.0x000001
Overview
● 205 fols; different sizes ranging 250–255 x 165–170 mm
● Composite ms of 4 units, composed s. IX–XI, bound together s. XVII or later
○ Unit 3 (fols 79–199), containing the medical material, dates to s. X, Reims (in England by s. XII/XIII)
Contents
● Works by Sedulius Scottus, Symphosius, and Boniface IV in Units 1 and 4.
● Units 2 and 3 (fols 37–199, both composed at Reims) are a miscellany with works by Bede, verses, glossaries, a Liber monstrorum, diagrams of the winds and world, Persius’s Saturae, with a life of Persius and commentary, and a letter of Lupus of Ferrières
Medical material
● Comments: a definition of philosophy that includes medicine, based on Hrabanus Maurus, De universo, appears at fol. 91r; a verse of Egyptian Days and a verse that mentions medicine appears at fol. 126r, surrounded by marginalia with another set of Egyptian Days, the dies caniculares (with reference to bloodletting), and a note about the author of the verses (mention of Hippocrates)
● Tags: associated material, phlebotomy, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #2497
LUXEMBOURG
BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DU LUXEMBOURG
[#88] MS 369/9
Link: https://viewer.eluxemburgensia.lu/ark:70795/ctgfw0/pages/6/articles/DTL43
Overview
● 4 fols; 220 x 160 mm
● s. IX2/3, Ireland or France
Contents
● Fragments from a larger medical collection (now lost)
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 1r contains a text on urines; fols 2r–4v contain selections from Theodorus Priscianus’s Euporiston, with additions and recipes; fol. 2r–v contains a blessing against cancer.
● Tags: fragment, prayer/charm, prognostics, recipe, tract
Literature
● Falmagne (2009), 2.613–15.
MERSEBURG
DOMBIBLIOTHEK
[#89] MS 103
Link: https://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/korax/rsc/viewer/Korax_derivate_00002337/Cod_I_103_001.tif
Overview
● 162 fols; 188 x 128 mm
● s. IX1/2, northern Italy
Contents
● Pastoral compendium
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 118r–v contains a brief note on the medical utility of eating hares within the Paenitentiale Merseburgense’s section on dietary restrictions
● Tags: dietetics
Literature
● Bischoff #2751
[#90] MS I, 136
Link: https://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/korax/rsc/viewer/Korax_derivate_00002549/VDS_Ms%20Cod%20I%20136_080.tif
Overview
● 94 fols; 230–50 x 140–170 mm
● Composite ms of 4 units, all from Germany s. IX2 and units 2–4 likely from Fulda
○ Unit 3 (fols 53–84), containing the medical material, dates to s. IXmed, Fulda
Contents
● Unit 1 includes prayers and a capitulary
● Units 2–4 are from different sacramentaries
Medical material
● Comments: an incantation against fever was added to fol. 76v in s. X.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #2761
MILAN
BIBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA
[#91] C 105 inf.
Link: https://ambrosiana.comperio.it/opac/detail/view/ambro:catalog:29652
Overview
● 219 fols; 295 x 240–235 mm
● Palimpsest manuscript made up of:
○ Overtext consists of the 2 parts: the original folios dating to s. Vex–VIin, northern Italy, and folios added as part of a restoration in s. VIII, Bobbio
○ Undertext (fols 1 and 9), containing the medical material, dates to s. VI, northern Italy (?)
Contents
● Overtext: pseudo-Hegesippus, De bello Iudaico
● Undertext: poem on the Maccabees, medical recipes
Medical material
● Comments: medical recipes are part of the undertext
● Tags: palimpsest, recipe
Literature
● CLA III, #323a, 323b, 324
[#92] D 30 inf.
Link: https://ambrosiana.comperio.it/opac/detail/view/ambro:catalog:33240
Overview
● 119 fols (fols 1 and 2 are missing); 310 x 220mm
● s. IX1/3, northern Italy (Vercelli or Bobbio?)
Contents
● Computus collection focused on Bede’s De temporum ratione
Medical material
● Comments: recipes and incantations in one hand (s. IX2/3) at fol. 121v.
● Tags: prayer/charm, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #2615
BIBLIOTECA CAPITOLARE S. AMBROGIO
[#93] MS 15
Link: not available online
Overview
● 161 fols; 265 x 192 mm
● s. IX3/3, northern Italy
Contents
● Diverse collection, including works by Bede, Gennadius, and pseudo-Augustine
Medical material
● Comments: on fol. 4r, in s. VIIIex–IX, a scribe added the phrase Ad mulierem que facit abortivum, using a combination of Latin and Greek letters. This looks like it could have been intended as a title for a recipe (though the recipe was never added).
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #2664
MONTPELLIER
BIBLIOTHÈQUE UNIVERSITAIRE (BU) HISTORIQUE DE MÉDECINE
[#94] MS H 62
Link: https://ged.scdi-montpellier.fr/florabium45/jsp/nodoc.jsp?NODOC=2017_DOC_MONT_MBUM_50
Overview
● 310 fols; 315 x 196 mm
● s. IX1/3, in the area of Paris
Contents
● Taio, Sententiae
Medical material
● Comments: An incantation against fevers was added to fol. 299v in s. X.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #2826
[#95] MS H 130
Link: https://ged.scdi-montpellier.fr/florabium45/jsp/nodoc.jsp?NODOC=2017_DOC_MONT_MBUM_56
Overview
● 120 fols; 300 x 210 mm
● s. IX1/2, possibly Burgundy
Contents
● Gregory the Great, Regula pastoralis
Medical material
● Comments: an incantation against fevers was added to fol. 1r in s. IX2/2.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #2831
[#96] MS H 301
Link: https://ged.scdi-montpellier.fr/florabium45/jsp/nodoc.jsp?NODOC=2023_DOC_MONT_MBUM_61
Overview
● 115 fols; 215 x 165 mm
● s. IX3/4, in the area of Lyon
Contents
● Penitential
Medical material
● Comments: a year prognostic (which makes reference to health and disease, both human and animal) was added to fols 1r and 105v in s. X.
● Tags: prognostics, veterinary medicine
Literature
● Bischoff #2854
MONZA
BIBLIOTECA CAPITOLARE
[#97] MS c 5/65
Link: not available online
Overview
● 146 fols; 280 x 180 mm
● s. IX/X, north Italy
Contents
● Gregory the Great’s Regula pastoralis
Medical material
● Comments: A veterinary incantation was added to fol. 146r in s. X/XI.
● Tags: prayer/charm, veterinary medicine
Literature
● Bischoff #2887
MUNICH
BAYERISCHE STAATSBIBLIOTHEK
[#98] Clm 6342
Link: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00065387?page=,1
Overview
● 183 fols; 230 x 150–165 mm
● s. IX3/4, Freising
Contents
● Homiliary
Medical material
● Comments: a series of medical incantations were added to the margins of fols 168v–169r in s. X1/2.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff, #3057
[#99] Clm 10077
Link: https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0007/bsb00073766/images/index.html?id=00073766&groesser=&fip=193.174.98.30&no=&seite=441
Overview
● 227 fols; 255 x 175 mm
● s. X3/3, northwestern Germany (possibly Fulda or Corvey), with additions from s. XI–XII
Contents
● Sacramentary and calendar, with lavish decorations
Medical material
● Comments: fols 190v–193r contain an Ordo ad visitandum infirmum as part of the sacramentary; fols 226r–226v contain Egyptian Days (with incorporated regimen and illness prognostic); fols 227r–227v contain Egyptian Days (with reference to bloodletting); the calendar (fols 219r–225v) also notes Egyptian Days for several months.
● Tags: associated material, phlebotomy, prognostics, regimen
Literature
● Borst (2001), 1.85; Juste (2011), 1.122–23.
[#100] Clm 14221
Link: https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0003/bsb00035463/images/
Overview
● 60 fols; 295 x 200 mm
● s. IX4/4, Saint-Emmeram
Contents
● Hrabanus Maurus’s De computo, Wichram of St. Gallen’s computus, and a list of relics brought to Saint-Emmeram
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 16v contains Egyptian Days (three-day version) followed by a bloodletting lunary; fol. 23r contains three medical recipes
● Tags: lunary, phlebotomy, prognostics, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #3140–3141
[#101] Clm 14388
Link: https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0002/bsb00022465/images/index.html?id=00022465&groesser=&fip=193.174.98.30&no=&seite=372
Overview
● 239 fols; 265–275 x 165 mm
● Composite ms of 2 units (together by s. XV)
○ Unit 1 (fols 1–112) s. IXin, southeast Bavaria (?)
○ Unit 2 (fols 113–238), containing the medical material, dates to s. IXmid, northwest Germany (?)
Contents
● Miscellany, including works by Hieronymus and pseudo-Hieronymus, the Physiologus, glossaries, etc.
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 183v contains a text entitled De pigmentis nardi spicatæ (description of nard); fols 227va–228rb contains a short treatise on weights.
● Tags: associated material, herbal
Literature
● Bischoff #3171–3172; Bischoff (1960), 240–42; Bierbrauer (1990), #238; Dorofeeva (2018), 159.
[#102] Clm 14516
Link: https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0009/bsb00091983/images/index.html?id=00091983&groesser=&fip=193.174.98.30&no=&seite=8
Overview
● 131 fols; 225 x 160–165 mm
● Composite ms of 2 units, both s. Xex/XIin, region of Trier, Metz, Reims, and Lobbes
Contents
● Primarily Boethius’s Aristotelian commentaries, along with Porphyrius’s Isagoge and verses by various authors
● Approximately 25 folios seem to be a palimpsest from s. X, with the undertext being Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae
Medical material
● Comments: a number of slightly later additions are found at the start of the codex (fols 1 and 2, originally in reverse order): fol. 1v contains a diagram of the subdivision of philosophy that includes medicina; fol. 2v contains a sphere of life and death underneath Alcuin’s poem/preface “Me lege”.
● Tags: associated material, figures, palimpsest, prognostics,
Literature
● Helmer and Knödler (2015), 414–21.
[#103] Clm 14725
Link: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00065777?page=2,3
Overview
● 166 fols; 185 x 110 mm
● s. IX1/4, northeastern France (Saint-Amand?)
Contents
● Computus collection, with Bede’s De temporum ratione
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 25v contains an illness lunary (in fragmentary form)
● Tag: lunary, prognostic
Literature
● Bischoff #3247–3248; Juste (2011), 138–39.
[#104] Clm 15028
Link: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00135812?page=,1
Overview
● 11 fols; 195 x 130 mm (fragments of varying dimensions formerly used as flyleaves)
● s. VIIin, Italy
● These fragments are related to Munich, BSB Clm 29688
Contents
● Fragments of a herbal
Medical material
● Comments: fragments are drawn from the pseudo-Apuleius’ Herbarius
● Tags: herbal, fragments, recipe
Literature
● CLA IX, #1312
[#105] Clm 27305
Link: not digitised, online record at https://glossen.germ-ling.uni-bamberg.de/manuscripts/12883
Overview
● 131 fols (paginated); 225 x 185 mm
● s. X, diocese of Freising; later at the Dombibliothek Freising
Contents
● Bede’s Martyrologium (fragmentary), with computistic and liturgical materials
Medical material
● Comments: p. 33 contains a lunary that notes when to take medicine.
● Tags: lunary, regimen
Literature
● Hauke (1975), 23–28.
[#106] Clm 29684 (olim Clm 29135 and 29136)
Link: https://iiif.biblissima.fr/collections/manifest/f6d285b080279418ee82862e220f9bfa616d6cac?tify={%22pages%22:[12],%22panX%22:0.448,%22panY%22:0.789,%22view%22:%22thumbnails%22,%22zoom%22:0.367}
Overview
● 6 fols; 275 x 160mm
● s. VIIIex, Rhaetia
● These fragments were originally part of the same codex with Champvent, Samm. Karl Leister, fragment unnumbered; Dillingen, Studienbibliothek XV Fragm. 24 and likely also Dillingen, Studienbibliothek XV Fragm. 24a
Contents
● Fragments of medical texts
Medical material
● Comments: fragments of De pulsibus et urinis (parts of chapters 23 and 31); pseudo-Galen, Liber tertius (parts of chapters 2, 5, 11 and 12); and Cassius Felix, De medicina (parts of chapters 1, 16 and 17). These were discussed by Beccaria as Clm 29135 and 29136.
● Tags: fragment, recipe, tract
Literature
● Beccaria #63–64; Bierbrauer (1990), #211; Bischoff (1981), 3.23; CLA VIII, #1177.
[#107] Clm 29688 (olim 29134)
Link: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00135326?page=,1
Overview
● Fragment; 195 x 130 mm
● s. VII1/4, Italy, uncial (survived as a flyleaf at Saint-Emmeram)
● This fragment is related to Munich, BSB Clm. 15028
Contents
● Fragment of a medical tract
Medical material
● Comments: the fragment contains the Dogma Hippocratis (a variant of the pseudo-Hippocratic Epistula ad Antiochum).
● Tags: fragment, tract
Literature
● CLA IX #1312; Palmer (2023), 24.
NEW YORK
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE
[#108] MS 1
Link: https://digitalcollections.nyam.org/islandora/object/islandora%253A1116#page/26/mode/2up
Overview
● 58 fols; 231 x 180 mm
● ca. 830, Fulda
Contents
● Apicius, De re coquinaria
Medical material
● Comments: the codex contains Books 1–9 of Apicius’s cook book. This manuscript is related to the other extant copy of Apicius in Vatican, BAV Urb. lat. 1146.
● Tags: dietetics, recipe
Literature
● Mayo (2008), 111–35.
NUREMBERG
STADTBIBLIOTHEK
[#109] Fragm. 2 a, c–h
Link: not digitised, online record at https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/1666
Overview
● [folios and size unavailable]
● s. VIII2/2, origin uncertain (northeastern France?)
● The fragments derive from the same codex as Göttingen, Universitätsbibliothek Hist. Nat. 91 and Erlangen, UB 2212–21; all were discovered as binding.
Contents
● Dioscorides, De materia medica
Medical material
● Comments: the fragment contains sections from Dioscorides’ De materia medica.
● Tags: fragment, herbal
Literature
● CLA VIII, #1191; Bischoff, Brown and John (1992), 302–303; Jacobsen (2010), 190 and 204–5.
ORLÉANS
BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE
[#110] MS 42 (39)
Link: https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/COMMENTAIRESDEBEDESURLESLIVRESDESDRASETDENEHEMIESUIVISDESMORALESDESGREGOIRE–BEDE—-28/id/664385/id_catalogue/29/id_module/53/facette/A347619
Overview
● 212 pp.; 300 x 220 mm
● Composite ms of 2 units, both dating to s. IXin and later found at Fleury
○ Unit 2 (pp. 209–212), containing the medical material, is a bifolium that dates to s. IX1/4, northern France
Contents
● Unit 1 contains Bede’s commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah
● Unit 2 (the bifolium) is Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob (Book 17, Ch. 1–15)
Medical material
● Comments: a childbirth incantation was added to p. 209 in s. X.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff, #3664; Mostert (1989), #456–57
[#111] MS 149 (126)
Link: https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/SAMBROISEDEBONOMORTISETRECUEILDHOMELIES–AMBROISESAINT—-28/id/664854/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/ambroise+%28saint%29
Overview
● 158 pp.; 180 x 125 mm
● Composite ms of 2 units, both dating to s. IX and possibly originating at Fleury
○ Unit 1 (pp. 1–94), containing the medical material, dates to s. IXex, Fleury (probably)
Contents
● Ambrose, De bono mortis
Medical material
● Comments: an incantation against bleeding was added to p. 82 in s. X1/2.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #3694; Mostert (1989), #554
[#112] MS 182 (159)
Link: https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/DIALOGUESDESAINTGREGOIREADREVALDVERSDANSELECOLATREDEFLEURYSERMONSDIVERS–ADREVALD—-28/id/665131/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/Gr%C3%A9goire+le+Grand+%28saint%29
Overview
● 334 pp; 305 x 212 mm
● Composite manuscript of 4 units, dating s. IX–XI
○ Unit 1 (pp. 1–240), containing the medical material, dates to s. IX2/4, Fleury
Contents
● Gregory the Great, Dialogorum, libri IV and the Adventus corporis Sancti Benedicti
Medical material
● Comments: a small medical section was added to p. 240 in s. X; it includes a short text on the signs of death, a note on the starting dates for the four seasons, and a single medical recipe
● Tags: medical section, prognostics, recipe,
Literature
● Bischoff #3716; Mostert (1989), #626
[#113] MS 323 (274)
Link: https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/FRAGMENTSDUMARTYROLOGEDESENSDUNTRAITEDALCUINDELARELATIONDESMIRACLESDESBENOI–ALCUIN—-28/id/666307/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/%22MS+0323%22
Overview
● 118 pp.+ 18 fols; 250–270 x 165–200 (units of varying size)
● Composite manuscript of 5 units ranging in date from s. IX–XVII
○ Unit 4 (pp. 65–112), containing the medical material, dates to s. IX/X, Fleury
Contents
● Unit 4 contains Alcuin’s De virtutibus et vitiis (incomplete)
Medical material
● Comments: in s. X1/2, a regimen was added in the margins of pp. 98–104 and a charm was added in the margin of p. 111.
● Tags: dietetics, prayer/charm, regimen
Literature
● Bischoff, #3743; Mostert (1989), #836; Pellegrin and Bouhot (2010), 461–464.
OXFORD
BODLEIAN LIBRARY
[#114] Barlow 35
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 58 fols; 210 x 160 mm
● Composite ms of 4 units, ranging in date from s. X (units A, B, D) to s. XIin (unit C)
Contents
● Computistical material, Alcuin’s Questiones super Geneseos, Scolia grecorum glosarium, Synonyma Ciceronis, and extracts from Aelfric’s Glossary.
Medical material
● Comments: within the computus material in Unit A, on fol. 5r is a version of the Revelatio Esdrae with comments on how weather affects health. Within Unit D, fol. 57v includes the chapter Nomina herbarum from Aelfric’s Glossary.
● Tags: list, prognostics
Literature
● Doane (2007), 83–90; Gneuss (2001), #541.
[#115] Bodley 232
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 25 fols; 285 x 175 mm
● 993, west Francia, with some later additions
Contents
● Computistical and astronomical material with hymns added on fols 3r, 9r, and 9v.
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 18r contains treatments for worms; fols 18r–21r contain treatments for different kinds of fever; fol. 24v contains medical recipes for different conditions.
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Watson (1984), #72.
[#116] Bodley 579 (Leofric Missal)
Link: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/97b5f725-af6d-4934-ad75-575eb081838f/
Overview
● 377 fols; 200 x 153 mm
● s. IX/X, likely England; the ms contains three distinct layers, with additions to the core made in s. X at Canterbury and in s. XI at Exeter
Contents
● A sacramentary, pontifical, and ritual to which other liturgical texts, calendrical and computus material, and texts relating to the diocese of Exeter were added.
Medical material
● Comments: amongst computus materials, fols 49v–50r contain a Sphere of Life and Death, with sizeable illustrations of vita and mors, added between 979–987 at Canterbury
● Tags: figure, prognostics
Literature
● Orchard (2002), esp. 132–205.
[#117] Laud Misc. 124
Link: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/e5cdc022-a42d-4e00-a0e9-cf2c9e567192/
Overview
● 122 fols; 280 x 205 mm
● s.IX2/3 (before 855), Saint Kilian, Würzburg
● Originally part of a three-volume set with Oxford, Laud Misc. 139 and Würzburg, UB M.p.th.f.74
Contents
● Augustine’s Tractatus in evangelium Johannis
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 122v contains a list of materia medica.
● Tags: list
Literature
● Bischoff #3832
PARIS
ARCHIVES NATIONALES
[#118] AB XIX 1737
Link: not digitised
Overview
● Fragments; measurements not available
● s. VII, France
Contents
● Medical recipes
Medical material
● Comments: Lowe identified the text as a veterinary fragment (“fragmentum mulomedicum”), though Vincenzo Ortoleva suggests it may instead be a lost tract of human medicine, such as the Latin translation of Philomenus.
● Tags: fragment, recipe
Literature
● CLA Suppl. #1742; Ortoleva (2015), 197–214.
BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE
[#119] Latin 152
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8452765t
Overview
● 49 fols; collection of fragments
● Unit of relevance is 2 fols (fols 30–31); 314 x 227 mm
○ s. IX1–3/4, western France
Contents
● Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah (Book 6)
Medical material
● Comments: a series of health-related prognostic texts were added over these fols in s. IX3/4, including a ferial prognostic (fol. 30v), a year prognostic (fols 30v–31r), and a zodiologion (fol. 31r).
● Tags: prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #3964
[#120] Latin 1568
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 193 fols; 200–250 x 145–205 mm
● Composite ms of 9 units, ranging in date from s. IX3/4 to s. XV
○ Unit 7 (fols 128–141), containing the medical material, dates to s. IX3 or 4/4, Reims
Contents
● Various conciliar texts, including records from the Council of Aachen (816) and Paulinus of Aquileia’s Libellus sacrosyllabus
Medical material
● Comments: a medical incantation was added to fol. 141r in s. X.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #4030; Lauer (1939–1988), 2.71.
[#121] Latin 2036
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525103731.r=latin%202036?rk=64378;0
Overview
● 136 fols; 255 x 170 mm
● s. IXmed, central France
Contents
● Augustine, Enchiridion; Gregory the Great, Regula pastoralis (partial)
Medical material
● Comments: medical incantations were added to fols 34r, 79r, and 113r in s. X.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #4124; Lauer (1939–1988), 2.289.
[#122] Latin 3877
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10073272d.r=latin%203877?rk=64378;0
Overview
● 94 fols; 250 x 195 mm
● s. IX3/3, France
Contents
● Isaac of Langres’s Canones, excerpts from the pseudo-Isidorian decretals, and other conciliar texts
Medical material
● Comments: a recipe to treat paralysis was added to fol. 93r in s. X.
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #4292; Mordek (1995), 66, 598, 1011–1014, 1021–1022, 1033.
[#123] Latin 4404
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8426042t.r=latin%204404?rk=42918;4
Overview
● 234 fols; 340 x 222 mm
● s. IXin, area around Tours
Contents
● Lex Romana Visigothorum, Lex Salica, and other law codes
Medical material
● Comments: a group of recipes was added to fol. 1r in s. IX2/2.
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #4304; Mordek (1995), 210–211, 456–463, 584, 829, 958.
[#124] Latin 4414
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9068468d.r=latin%204414?rk=42918;4
Overview
● 166 fols; 308 x 212 mm
● s. IX4/4, southern France
Contents
● Legal compendium
Medical material
● Comments: following a list of forbidden days (fol. 164r), a long group of recipes, ending with a brief text on weights and measures, was added to fols 164v–165v around the time that the manuscript was completed.
● Tags: associated material, prognostics, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #4314
[#125] Latin 4627
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9066087r/f1.item
Overview
● 148 fols; 225 x 147 mm
● Shortly after 818, from a “court context”
Contents
● Formulae, the Lex Salica, and other legal material
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 132r–v contains several recipes.
● Tag: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #4319; Mordek (1995), 482–85.
[#126] Latin 4697
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52512918r.r=latin%204697?rk=42918;4
Overview
● 54 fols; 232 x 168 mm
● s. IX2/2, probably Clermont-Ferrand
Contents
● Diverse collection including fragments of the Lex Romana Visigothorum, formulae of Auvergne, etc.
Medical material
● Comments: a wide-ranging collection of incantations and recipes was added to the margins of fols 47v–52v and 53v–54v in s. X. The material is particularly notable for its unusual use of space.
● Tags: prayer/charm, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #4326
[#127] Latin 4762
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10033372j.r=latin%204762?rk=42918;4
Overview
● 134 fols; 240 x 175 mm
● s. IX3/4, probably northeast France
Contents
● Writings of Ansegisus
Medical material
● Comments: a list of Egyptian Days (without reference to bloodletting) and a birth lunary were added to fol. 134v in s. X.
● Tags: lunary, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #4331
[#128] Latin 6401
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105096135/f15.item
Overview
● 175 fols; 275 x 195 mm
● s. Xex, southern England, then finished at Fleury s. XI
Contents
● Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae and De arithmetica, letters from Radulf of Liège and Ragimbold of Cologne, and other texts
Medical contents
● Comments: fol. Br contains a sphere of life and death.
● Tag: figure, prognostics
Literature
● Avril and Stirnemann (1987), 15–16.
[#129] Latin 6831
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10034333p.r=latin%206831?rk=21459;2
Overview
● 104 fols; measurements unknown
● Composite ms of 2 units dating from s. IX to s. XII
○ Unit 2 (fols 58–104), containing the medical material, dates to s. IX4/4, Reims
Contents
● The Historiae of Alexander the Great, as well as pseudonymous letters attributed to Alexander and various other texts on geography and the wonders of the world
Medical material
● Comments: an excerpt of month-based dietetic advice (addressing only March and April) was added to fol. 58r in s. X.
● Tags: dietetics, regimen
Literature
● Bischoff #4415; Mostert (1989), #1093
[#130] Latin 7400B
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9078321x/f1.item.r=luna
Overview
● 33 fols; 190 x 128 mm
● s. IX¾,, western France, later at Fleury
Contents
● Excerpts of works by Macrobius, Martianus Capella, Gregory the Great, and Bede’s De natura rerum and De temporibus
Medical contents
● Comments: fol. 7v contains a recipe of a potion ex epistola Hipocratis.
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #4439
[#131] Latin 7670
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525190518.r=latin%207670?rk=21459;2
Overview
● 94 fols; 265 x 175 mm
● ca. 816–835, the area around Paris (?)
Contents
● Isidore, Etymologiae (Books 1–6)
Medical material
● Comments: a series of recipes was added to fols 92v–93r by s. IXex (unusual for their use of Tironian notes).
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #4493
[#132] Latin 7730
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8478988x.r=%22Latin%207730%22?rk=42918;4
Overview
● 107 fols; 312 x 252 mm
● s. IX2/2, northeastern France (Fleury?)
Contents
● Several texts on the Artes liberales, by authors such as Boethius, Servius, Bede, and Alcuin
Medical contents
● Comments: fols 86r–88r contain part of Isidore’s Etymologiae, book IV, De medicina; fols 88r–89r contain the Epistula de ratione ventris vel viscerum; fols 89r–92v contain parts of Galen’s Ad Glauconem. These two latter texts are edited by Ferraces Rodríguez in the article below.
● Tags: encyclopaedia, tract
Literature
● Bischoff #4498; Ferraces Rodríguez (2017–18), 47–62.
[#133] Latin 7925
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90660069/f2.item.r=latin%207925
Overview
● 160 fols; 265 x 193 mm
● s. IXex, southern France (Limoges?)
Contents
● Collection of works by Virgil
Medical material
● Comments: a sphere of life and death was added to fol. 108v before the year 1000.
● Tags: figure, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #4513
[#134] Latin 8508
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9080944s
Overview
● 164 fols; 172 x 120 mm
● Composite ms of 2 units, ranging in date from s. IX to s. XIII
○ Unit 2 (fols 57–164), containing the medical material, dates to s. IX4/4, southern France
Contents
● Unit 2 contains Halitgar’s penitential and records of four synods
Medical material
● Comments: a macula incantation was added to fol. 147v in s. X; also of note (though s. XI) is a worm incantation on fol. 160v.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #4549
[#135] Latin 9531
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84514716.r=latin%209531?rk=42918;4
Overview
● 132 fols; 310 x 190 mm
● s. IX2/4, northeast Italy
Contents
● Commentaries by Jerome
Medical material
● Comments: medical incantations and charms were added to fols 115r–v and 124v in s. IX4/4.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #4597; Pani (2009), 419–20.
[#136] Latin 10575
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105422032/f1.item
Overview
● 187 fols; 235 x 195 mm
● s. Xmed, England
Contents
● Collection of liturgical texts, including Amalarius of Metz’s Eclogae
Medical contents
● Comments: fol. 178v contains Egyptian Days as a later addition; fol.187r contains the same set of Egyptian Days (added after 1000)
● Tags: phlebotomy, prognostics
Literature
● Avril and Stirnemann (1987), 11.
[#137] Latin 10756
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52512740n.r=%22Latin%2010756%22?rk=42918;4
Overview
● 71 fols; 195–205 x 135–150 mm
● Composite ms of 3 units, dating from s. VIII to s. IX
○ Unit 3 (fols 62–69), containing the medical material, dates to s. VIII1/2, eastern Franica (Bourges?). This quaternio was originally part of Bern, Burgerbibliothek cod. 611.
Contents
● Unit 3 contains formulae, computus material, and (in Tironian notes) verses on the creation of the world and an excerpt from Gregory the Great’s Regula pastoralis
Medical contents
● Comments: fol. 68v contains an illness lunary as a later addition.
● Tags: lunary, prognostics
Literature
● CLA V, #604; Dorofeeva (2019), 334–60; Ganz (2019), 265–80.
[#138] Latin 11379
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6001308b/f1.item.r=%22Latin%2011379%22
Overview
● 36 fols; 220 x 155 mm
● Composite ms of 2 units, both dating to s. IX
○ Unit 1 (fols 1–24, 26–28) s. IX2/4, near Laon
Contents
● The letters of Einhard and others, formulae
Medical contents
● Comments: fol. 2v contains three recipes as a later addition (damaged)
● Tag: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #4677–4678
[#139] Latin 11561
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90668240.r=latin%2011561?rk=21459;2
Overview
● 218 fols; 365 x 260 mm
● s. IX3/3, northern France
Contents
● Pauca problesmata de enigmatibus ex tomis canonicis (i.e. an Irish reference bible) and excerpts from Isidore’s Etymologiae
Medical material
● Comments: recipes were added to fol. 218r in s. X.
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #4689; MacGinty (2000), xiv–xv.
[#140] Latin 12048 (Gellone Sacramentary)
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60000317/
Overview
● 276 fols; 300 x 180 mm
● s. VIIIex, northern France (probably Meaux or Cambrai)
Contents
● Primarily a sacramentary, though it also contains blessings, prayers, and other liturgical material as well as, on the final folia, two martyrologies
Medical material
● Comments: a list of Egyptian Days (with reference to death) was added to fols 260v–261v in s. VIIIex.
● Tags: prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #4725a; CLA V, #618; Nees (2022), 53–57.
[#141] Latin 12193
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90683526.r=latin%2012193?rk=21459;2
Overview
● 311 fols; 260 x 205–210 mm
● Composite ms of 3 units, ranging in date from s. IX to s. IX/X
○ Unit 1 (fols 1–165), containing the medical material, dates to s. IX3/4, northern France (probably Meaux or Cambrai)
Contents
● Collection of Augustinian works
Medical material
● Comments: the start of a medical incantation was added to fol. 80r in s. X.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #4762
[#142] Latin 13028
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10510416z/f1.item
Overview
● 150 fols; 275 x 195 mm
● s. VIII2/2, northern France, held at Corbie
Contents
● Isidore, Etymologiae
Medical contents
● Comments: fol.150r contains a charm; fol. 150v contains a recipe. Both are additions from s. IX/X
● Tags: prayer/charm, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #4865a; CLA V, #647
[#143] Latin 13246 (Bobbio Missal)
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b550103970.r=latin%2013246?rk=42918;4
Overview
● 300 fols; 185 x 95 mm
● ca. 700 southeast France; later at Bobbio
Contents
● Gallican sacramentary
Medical material
● Comments: incantations were added to fols 253v–254r in s. VIII.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● CLA V, #653; Hen and Meens (2004).
[#144] Latin 13686
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525024836.r=latin%2013686?rk=21459;2
Overview
● 28 fols; 155 x 110 mm
● s. IX3/4, northern Francia (near Brittany)
Contents
● Formulae Salicae Bignonianae
Medical contents
● Comments: fol.1r contains two partial texts on Egyptian Days (with reference to illness) as a later addition.
● Tags: prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #4928
PORTO
BIBLIOTECA PÚBLICA MUNICIPAL
[#145] Casa Forte – Gaveta de Fragmentos
Link: not digitised
Overview
● Two groups of fragments
○ Group 1: five damaged bifol., four of which are consecutive, 285 x 195 mm
○ Group 2: two consecutive bifol., 280 x 190 mm
● s. X (both groups), southern Italy, Beneventan script
Contents
● All fols contain selections from medical works
Medical material
● Comments: group 1 contains pseudo-Oribasius’s commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates (parts of books 2–6); group 2 contains pseudo-Galen, Alphabetum ad Paternum
● Tags: fragment, herbal, letter, tract
Literature
● BMB #POM 1; Brown (2012), 79–80; Cruz (1964), 219 and pl. 3.
SALZBURG
BIBLIOTHEK DER ERZABTEI ST. PETER
[#146] Fragments 11, 12, 13, 14
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 4 fragments; 239–240 x 187–409 mm
● s. IXmed, Germany
● The four Salzburg fragments (11, 12, 13 and 14) were all from the same scriptorium, though written by different scribes. Fragment 11 was bound in a volume from s. XVII.
Contents
● Fragments from a medical work.
Medical material
● Comments: selections from pseudo-Galen, Liber tertius.
● Tags: fragment, tract
Literature
● Bischoff #5451; Forstner (1960), 255–56.
ST. GALLEN
STIFTSBIBLIOTHEK ST. GALLEN
[#147] cod. sang. 124
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0124/309/0/Sequence-316
Overview
● 360 pp.; 250 x 155 mm
● 810–820, Saint-Amand
Contents
● Exegetical and liturgical collection (including works by pseudo-Jerome, Augustine, Bede, and Isidore), as well as the Annals of St. Gallen
Medical material
● Comments: p. 309 contains Egyptian Days (without reference to health or bloodletting) and a monthly regimen.
● Tags: dietetics, prognostics, regimen
Literature
● Bischoff #5583; Scherrer (1875), 44–45.
[#148] cod. sang. 225
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/0225/
Overview
● 478 pp.; 250 x 153–160 mm
● s. VIII3/3 (possibly in 773), St. Gallen
Contents
● A miscellany with computus, exegetical writings, hagiography (a substantial amount derived from Isidore)
Medical material
● Comments: pp. 135–137 contain a regimen with dietary and bloodletting information.
● Tags: dietetics, phlebotomy, regimen
Literature
● CLA VII, #928; Scherrer (1875), 80–81.
[#149] cod. sang. 397
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0397/22/0/Sequence-525
Overview
● 148 pp.; 210 x 160 mm
● s. IXmed, St. Gallen
Contents
● Known as the vademecum of Grimald of St. Gallen, a miscellany including computus, liturgy, astronomy, and history (with selections from Bede’s De natura rerum and De temporum ratione)
Medical material
● Comments: p. 22 contains recipes; p. 26 contains two sets of Egyptian Days (without reference to health or bloodletting); pp. 115–119 and pp. 121–122 contain texts on weights and measures.
● Tags: associated material, prognostics, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #5741; Scherrer (1875), 135–36.
[#150] cod. sang. 450
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0450
Overview
● 46 pp.; 250 x 140–155 mm
● s. X/XI, northern Italy
Contents
● A computus collection, with calendars, tables, and excerpts from Bede’s De temporum ratione
Medical material
● Comments: p. 1 contains a recipe; p. 3 contains Egyptian Days in verse (with reference to bloodletting); p. 18 contains a sphere of life and death.
● Tags: figure, phlebotomy, prognostics, recipe
Literature
● von Scarpatetti (2003), Bd. II, 3–7; Scherrer (1875), 147.
[#151] cod. sang. 459
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0459/29/0/Sequence-562
Overview
● 366 pp.; 210 x 150–170 mm
● Composite ms of 4 parts, all s. IX2/2, put together at St. Gallen
Contents
● Computus collection with Bede’s De temporum ratione, world maps, tables, calendars, and the Annals of St. Gallen
Medical material
● Comments: on the first page of the second unit (p. 29), a later addition (s. X/XI) contains an annual regimen that mentions humors, food, drink, fasting, and purging. This may be the hand of Ekkehard IV of St. Gallen.
● Tags: calendrical material, dietetics, regimen
Literature
● Bischoff #5756–5758; von Scarpatetti (2003), Bd. II, 30–26.
[#152] cod. sang. 550
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0550/54/0/Sequence-578
Overview
● 242 pp.; 140–150 x 90–110 mm
● s. IXmed, southern Germany or Switzerland
Contents
● Miscellany with hagiography, letter formulae, grammatical texts, and the penitential Cummeani
Medical material
● Comments: pp. 54–55 contain later additions from s. IX4/4 and s. X: a recipe that begins Istam causa facias contra morbum; a healing incantation for a horse; and a charm against fever that invokes a man Leotoltis. The last is edited in Adolph Franz, Die kirchlichen Benediktionen im Mittelalter (Freiburg, 1909), 2.481.
● Tags: prayer/charm, recipe, veterinary medicine
Literature
● Bischoff #5761; von Scarpatetti (2003), Bd. I, 11–16; Cianci (2004), 282–83.
[#153] cod. sang. 569
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/0569
Overview
● 259 pp.; 230 x 180 mm
● Composite ms of 8 parts ranging in date from s. IXmed to s. X/XI, with several units probably composed in northern Italy
○ Units 7 & 8 (pp. 240–57), containing the medical material, date to s. IXex
Contents
● Several works of hagiography (including the single extant Vita Ambrosii), Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, and the apocalypse of pseudo-Methodius
Medical material
● Comments: following excerpts on the seven wonders of the world, pp. 241–42 contain several medical recipes
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #5798; von Scarpatetti (2003), Bd. I, 70–74.
[#154] cod. sang. 732
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de/list/one/csg/0732
Overview
● 194 pp.; 190 x 140 mm
● s. IX1/4, Bavaria (possibly Freising), additions and glosses in hands from s. IX–X; at St. Gallen by s. IXex
Contents
● Miscellany with the Lex Alamannorum, a work on Mary’s assumption, excerpts from Bede’s chronicle, pilgrimage accounts, a list of Merovingian kings, Alcuin’s Disputatio puerorum, the Annals of St. Gallen, and a list of popes
Medical material
● Comments: in empty years of the annals, p. 176 contains part of the Lord’s prayer written backwards and p. 177 an insular veterinary charm. The charm is discussed by Cooijmans (2020), 6–7.
● Tags: prayer/charm, veterinary medicine
Literature
● Bischoff #5842; Lenz and Ortelli (2014), 258–64.
[#155] cod. sang. 899
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0899/83/0/Sequence-703
Overview
● 144 pp.; 220 x 160–165 mm
● s. IXex, St. Gallen
Contents
● Collection of poetry (Ausonius, Walahfrid, Theodulf, Paul the Deacon, and more)
Medical material
● Comments: recipes for various conditions or substances are found in multiple hands across the manuscript: at pp. 83–4; on the bottom of p. 131; and at pp. 137–42 (including, here, a recipe for incense and one for garum). A glossary at pp. 59–66 includes some medical terminology.
● Tags: glossary, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #5865; Scherrer (1875), 315–16.
[#156] cod. sang. 908
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/0908
Overview
● 206 fols (paginated 1–412); 205 x 135 mm
● Known as the “king of palimpsests” because it contains multiple layers of script
○ Upper script dates to s. VIII2/2, northern Italy
○ Lower scripts range from s. V–VIII, a mix of uncial and Roman cursive
● fols 16–19 from Zurich, Zentralbibliothek C 79b were once part of this ms
Contents
● Upper text is works of theology (by Augustine, Isidore, Gregory the Great, and others) and a Latin glossary
● Lower text varies but includes the only extant poetry of Merobaudes
Medical material
● Comments: pp. 277–92 contain the only extant copy of Vegetius’s Mulomedicina ( s. VIex, Italy, uncial)
● Tags: palimpsest, tract, veterinary medicine
Literature
● Bischoff #5872; CLA VII, #953–65.
[#157] cod. sang. 912
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0912/
Overview
● 158 pp; 120 x 90 mm
● Palimpsest
○ Upper script dates to s. VIII, Bobbio
○ Lower script dates to s. V–VII
Contents
● Upper text is the Abba-Ababus glossary
● Lower text includes the psalms, Book of Jeremiah, grammatical and medical works
Medical material
● Comments: pp. 13–20, 47–48 are an unidentified medical text (lowest layer of a double palimpsest, with this text dating to s. VII, Italy, uncial); pp. 43–44, 283–298, 301–302, 305–308, 311–312, 315–318 are gynaecological recipes (s. V/VI, northern Italy, cursive)
● Tags: palimpsest, recipe
Literature
● CLA VII, #967a–975
[#158] cod. sang. 1395
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/1395
Overview
● 473 pp.; 240 x 185–190 mm
● Collected fragments, s. V–X, northern Italy
Contents
● 14 different units, which include the oldest Vulgate of the Gospels and several Irish fragments
Medical material
● Comments: p. 468b (s. VIII/IX, Caroline minuscule) contains a prognostic (Tonitroales menses) that lists outcomes of thunder for days of the month, with many related to health (only February is extant). Bischoff proposed that these pages belong to the vademecum in cod. sang. 217 but P. Köpp disputes this. The Irish fragments (s. VIII2/2) include on p. 419 (on the back of a portrait of the Evangelist Matthew) incantations in Latin and Old Irish for health, and on p. 423 blessing for water and salt.
● Tags: associated material, prayer/charm, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #5883a–5885; CLA VII, #985–991; Köpp (1980), 12 and 17.
STOCKHOLM
KUNGLIGA BIBLIOTEKET
[#159] MS A 136
Link: https://manuscripta.se/ms/101124
Overview
● 237 fols; 290 x 225 mm
● ca. 875, Saint-Amand
Contents
● Gregorian Sacramentary
Medical material
● Comments: a series of recipes (with one incantation in the mix) were added to fols 1r–2r before ca. 950; fols 197r–212v contains an ordo for the sick, those dying and for burial
● Tags: associated material, prayer/charm, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #6013; Mostert (1989), #1296; Westwell (2024), 403–406.
ST PETERSBURG
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF RUSSIA
[#160] MS lat. Q v. I. 34
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 88 fols; 250 x 190 mm
● s. IXex, northeastern France
● fols 1–45 and 102–145 constitute the erstwhile Corbie ms 230.
Contents
● Texts pertaining to pastoral care, such as expositions of baptism and mass, a penitential, and computistic material.
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 88r contains a sphere of life and death (added somewhat later).
● Tags: figure, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #2323; Mordek (1995), 698–702; Sabbah et al. (1987), #556.
[#161] MS lat. Q. v. I. 56
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 10 fols; 214 x 160 mm
● s. IXex, northeastern France
● fols 146–56 (now 1–10) constitute the erstwhile Corbie ms 230
Contents
● Computistical material, with a calendar, moon table, and more
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 10r–v contains a regimen, with instructions about phlebotomy and the use of medicine; fol. 10v contains Egyptian Days with a medical component
● Tags: phlebotomy, prognostics, regimen
Literature
● Bischoff #2323; Borst (2006), 1.293–94.
STUTTGART
WÜRTTEMBERGISCHE LANDESBIBLIOTHEK
[#162] MS Cod. bibl. 2° 80
Link: https://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=5922&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1&cHash=c9f41a0411dce38b6cc4e59c1ab6dac4
Overview
● 143 fols; 305 x 245 mm
● s. IX2/2, Lorsch
Contents
● Letters of Paul, Acts of the Apostles, Revelation, etc.
Medical material
● Comments: a single gloss of a medical term (unrelated to the main text on this folio), with Latin and Old High German equivalents, was added to fol. 142v in s. X.
● Tags: glossary/hermeneumata
Literature
● Bischoff #6049; Bischoff (1989), 38, 53, 55, 91–2 (nn. 42 and 44), 114
TRIER
STADTBIBLIOTHEK
[#163] MS 1245/597 8°
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 138 fols; measurements not available
● Composite ms of 2 units, both of which have medical additions
○ Unit 1(fols 1–48) dates to s. IX, Prüm (?)
○ Unit 2 (fols 49–138) dates to s. IX2–3/3, Prüm (?)
Contents
● Unit 1 contains the Rule of Saint Benedict and a martyrology
● Unit 2 contains a Collectarium
Medical material
● Comments: recipes were added to fols 1r, 51v, 74v, and 87v in s. X.
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #6194–5
VALENCIENNES
BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE
[#164] Ms. 343 (330 bis)
Link: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8452589j?rk=278971;2
Overview
● 187 fols; 270 x 200 mm
● s. IX–X1/2, Saint-Amand (?)
Contents
● Computus collection, with works by Bede, calendrical material, and tables; later additions concerning the monastery of Saint-Amand
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 35r contains a set of Egyptian Days in verse (with reference to bloodletting).
● Tags: phlebotomy, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #6379 (below); Robert (1894), 346–47.
VATICAN CITY
BIBLIOTECA APOSTOLICA VATICANA
[#165] Pal. lat. 187
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/bav_pal_lat_187
Overview
● 66 fols; 180 x 120 mm
● s. VII–VIII, northern Italy or eastern Francia; at Lorsch by s. XIII
Contents
● Psalms with Jerome’s preface and the pseudo-Galenic Alphabetum ad Paternum
Medical material
● Comments: fols 8r–66v contain the Alphabetum ad Paternum (the end is lacking but this is the earliest witness); recipes were added to fols 1r and 7r in s. VIII2/2
● Tags: herbal, recipe, tract
Literature
● Everett (2012), 120–3; Bischoff #6474; Bischoff (1989), 60, 118; CLA I, #80–81
[#166] Pal. lat. 235
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Pal.lat.235
Overview
● 67 fols; 295 x 220 mm
● Composite ms of 5 units, ranging in date from s. VIII–X
○ Unit 3 (fols. 36–47), containing the medical material, dates to s. IX–X, northern Germany (Gandersheim?)
Contents
● Units 1, 2, and 4 contain Paulinus of Nola’s poems, Eriugena’s glosses on Prudentius, and Aldhelm’s De virginitate
● Units 3 and 5 contain computistical and liturgical materials, including a number of lunaries.
Medical material
● Comments: fols 39v–40r contain three lunaries on birth, illness, and dreams; fols 40r–41r contain a general lunary with information on health; fols 44r–45r contain prayers against chills and fevers, of various types.
● Tags: lunary, prayer/charm, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #6496; Bischoff (1989), 86 n.98, 118; CLA I, #87; Hoffmann (2012), 27, 69, 157.
[#167] Pal. lat. 485
Link: https://bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de/bav/bav_pal_lat_485/0001/image,info
Overview
● 113 fols; 255 x 185 mm
● 860–875, Lorsch
Contents
● Pastoral manual with liturgical and computistical material, expositions on the mass and baptism, penitentials, and episcopal statutes
Medical material
● Comments: within a computus section, fols 13v–15v contain an illness lunary, monthly regimen, and Egyptian Days (with reference to bloodletting), a mass for St. Sigismund against fever (later addition), and a bloodletting lunary (later addition)
● Tags: lunary, phlebotomy, prayer/charm, prognostics, regimen
Literature
● Paxton (1990), 1–30; Bischoff #6531; Bischoff (1989), 53, 55, 124
[#168] Pal. lat. 973
Link: https://bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de/bav/bav_pal_lat_973/0014
Overview
● 131 fols; 220 x 190 mm
● s. IX2/2, Reims region
Contents
● Miscellany with the Cosmographia Iulii Caesaris and Ansegis’s capitulary collection, as well as episcopal materials, moral and penitential texts, and exegesis
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 4v contains a bloodletting lunary (addition from s. X); another addition at fol. 128v is two recipes against stones (s. X); fols 18r–19v contain a version of the Diaeta Theodori (here titled De cybis)
● Tags: dietetics, lunary, phlebotomy, prognostics, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #6573; Bischoff (1989), 128
[#169] Pal. lat. 1449
Link: https://bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de/bav/bav_pal_lat_1449/0012/image,info
Overview
● 151 fols; 285 x 235 mm
● s. IX1/2 , Lorsch, with additions from s. IX–XI
Contents
● Computus collection, with astronomical materials and various works by Bede
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 9r contains a bloodletting lunary. On fols 119v–120r is the Revelatio Esdrae with comments on how weather affects health. On fols 120r–120v there are four medical texts: a selection from Gargilius Martialis attributed to Galen; a text on urines; De egris on signs of death; and a monthly regimen. On fol. 146v, a sphere of life and death. A recipe for mortar (Caementum maltae) appears on fols IIIr and IVr.
● Tags: associated materials, figure, lunary, phlebotomy, prognostics, recipe, regimen, tract
Literature
● Bischoff #6580; Bischoff (1989), 51, 53, 85 n.79, 89 n.5, 92–93 nn. 62 and 49, 128
[#170] Pal. lat. 1519
Link: https://bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de/bav/bav_pal_lat_1519/0188
Overview
● 94 fols; 295 x 195 mm
● ca. 1000, Lorsch
Contents
● Works by Cicero, with Walahfrid Strabo’s Hortulus
Medical material
● Comments: fols 85v–88v contain Walahfrid Strabo’s De cultura hortorum (untitled and end is lacking, with glosses in Old High German at fol. 85v)
● Tags: herbal, tract
Literature
● Bischoff (1989), 85 n.80, 128; Berschin (2007), 23, 31.
[#171] Reg. lat. 469
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.469
Overview
● 47 fols; 215 x 145 mm
● s. IX2/2, Fulda (possibly owned by Rudolf of Fulda); later held at St. Gallen
Contents
● Verses by Walahfrid Strabo, including the Hortulus
Medical material
● Comments: alongside many other poems, Walahfrid’s Hortulus is found at fols 29v–39r with the incipit “liber de cultura hortorum Strabi seu Strabonis feliciter”
● Tags: herbal, tract
Literature
● Bischoff #6683; Wilmart (1945), 2.629–31
[#172] Reg. lat. 1000a
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.1000.pt.A
Overview
● 113 fols; 255 x 205 mm
● Composite ms of 2 units, both produced at Reims
○ Unit 1 (fols 1–3), containing the medical material, dates to s. IX
○ Unit 2 (fols 4–113), s. IXmed
Contents
● Orationes and Collectio Dacheriana
Medical material
● Comments: a brief medical text, which looks like a series of recipes (or perhaps incantations/charms?) was added to fol. 3r in s. X2/2.
● Tags: prayer/charm, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #6750–6751
[#173] Reg. lat. 1023
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.1023
Overview
● 133 fols; 263 x 190 mm
● s. IXex, circle of Reims
Contents
● Legal compendium with the Lex Romana Visigothorum, plus additions
Medical material
● Comments: on the final pastedown there is a marginal addition Ad pectoris dolor[em]
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #6754
[#174] Reg. lat. 1263
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.1263
Overview
● 103 fols; 260 x 193 mm
● ca. 1000, Loire valley, Abbey of Micy-Saint-Mesmin
Contents
● Computus, cosmography, and prognostics
Medical material
● Comments: a calendar at fols 65r–75r notes Egyptian Days at the start of each month; there are two versions of a sphere of life and death (fols 76v and 91r), the latter is in the shape of a cross
● Tags: figures, prognostics
Literature
● Denoël (2019), 118–60
[#175] Reg. lat. 1553
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.1553
Overview
● 41 fols; 190–198 x 143–145 mm
● Composite ms of 3 units, with the third unit added only in 1907
○ Unit 1 (fols 1–21) dates to s. IX2/4
○ Uni 2 (fols 22–33), containing medical material, dates to s. IX
○ Unit 3 (fols 34–41) dates to s. IX1/2, Loire region
Contents
● Unit 1 contains various riddles
● Unit 2 includes Biblical excerpts, recipes, and a letter of pseudo-Jerome
● Unit 3 contains works on grammar
Medical material
● Comments: fols 29v–30r contain several medical cures: a regimen against demons (Penitentia energuminis); Potio epilenticis; Alia potio; as well as a marginal addition with related recipes (Ad lunaticum cadivum; Item)
● Tags: exorcism, recipe, regimen
Literature
● Bischoff #6783
[#176] Reg. lat. 1587
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.1587
Overview
● 80 fols; 214 x 176 mm
● Composite ms of 4 units, all dating s. IX, west or central Francia (some units owned by Fleury?)
○ Unit 2 (fols 51–56), containing medical material, dates to s. IX3/4
Contents
● Extracts from Isidore’s Etymologiae, works by Alcuin, treatises on grammar and verse, poems by Eriugena, Cicero’s De senectute
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 53v contains a recipe titled Potio ad calvum probatissima and an explanation of a SATOR square, both added in s. X
● Tags: recipe, encyclopaedia
Literature
● Bischoff #6786–6789
[#177] Reg. lat. 1625
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.1625
Overview
● 79 fols; range of sizes
● Composite ms of 9 units (together by s. XVI) with individual units ranging in date from s. VIII to s. XV
○ Unit 5 (fols 69r–75v), containing the medical material, dates to s. IXmed, Francia (Fleury?)
Contents
● Mixture of texts, many of which relate to Virgil’s Aeneid
Medical material
● Comments: fols 74r–74v contain prognostic material, including two spheres of life and death
● Tags: figure, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #6791–2 (and 4627); Contreni (1978), 139–40, 167, 176, 180, 205.
[#178] Urb. lat. 293
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.293
Overview
● 96 fols; 285 x 200 mm
● s. XII, Rhine region
● Fols 95–96 were added as flyleaves from a much earlier manuscript from s. VIII, Italy
Contents
● Main codex is Vitruvius’s De architectura;
● Flyleaves are Oribasius’s Euporista
Medical material
● Comments: this copy of Oribasius (version La) has been edited by GIovanni Carbonelli, Frammento medico del secolo VII (Cod. Vat. Urb. lat. 293) (Rome: Istituto Nazionale Medico Farmacologico, 1921).
● Tags: fragment, tract
Literature
● CLA I, #116; Sabbah, et al. (1987), #436–7
[#179] Urb. lat. 1146
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.1146
Overview
● 58 fols; 235 x 195 mm
● s. IXmed, Tours
Contents
● Apicius’s De re coquinaria
Medical material
● Comments: this illuminated copy of Apicius, Books 1–10, may have been prepared for Charles the Bald.
● Tags: dietetics, recipe, tract
Literature
● Bischoff #6817
[#180] Vat. lat. 645
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.645
Overview
● 103 fols; 190 x 157 mm
● 827–845, Reims or Saint-Quentin (possibly made for Abbot Hugo?)
Contents
● Computus and astronomy collection with works by Bede, Pliny, Isidore, Macrobius, and illustrations of the constellations, winds, and planets
Medical material
● Comments: surrounding the illustrations of the constellations on fols 57v–61v are a large number of recipes (Ad oculorum dolorem, Ad dentium dolorem, Ad apostomam, Contra febrem, etc.) and one incantation
● Tags: prayer/charm, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #6847; Borst (2006), 1.311–312; Ramírez-Weaver (2017), 46–49, 206–210.
[#181] Vat. lat. 3321
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3321
Overview
● 234 fols; 230 x 160 mm
● s. VIII, Italy (central?), uncial
Contents
● A glossary; works by pseudo-Cicero, Isidore, and Eucherius of Lyon; the anonymous Curiosum urbis Romae
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 229r–v contains texts on weights and measures; fol. 234v contains recipes (added s. IX) but is badly mutilated and nearly illegible
● Tags: associated material, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #6874a; CLA I, #15; Pellegrin (2010), vol. 3.2, 254.
[#182] Vat. lat. 6018
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.6018
Overview
● 131 fols; 208 x 144 mm
● s. IX1/2, central Italy (fols 93, 98, 127–128, and perhaps more, are palimpsests from s. VII)
Contents
● Miscellany with glossaries, grammars, Easter tables, Hebrew names and places, extracts from Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae and Chronica maiora, question-and-answer texts, and extracts from Eucherius of Lyon
● fols 63v–64r contain a famous mappa mundi
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 55v contains a text entitled De animalibus que comedere non debent; fol. 64v contains a circular diagram on bloodletting by month and a set of Egyptian Days; fols 119r–120v contain extracts from the Etymologiae on weights and measures.
● Tags: associated material, dietetics, figure, phlebotomy, prognostics, regimen
Literature
● Bischoff #6928; CLA I, #50; Pellegrin (2010), vol. 3.2, 591–95.
[#183] Vat. lat. 11506
Link: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/bav_vat_lat_11506
Overview
● 82 fols; 262 x 194 mm
● s. IX3/4, Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul, Wissenbourg
Contents
● Cicero’s De inventione and Priscian’s Periegesis (with marginal glosses)
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 1r contains a number of recipes (Ad tineas capitis, Ad cordis pulsum, Ne infans multum plorat, etc.), followed by a blessing for an ordeal (added s. IX/X). Several of the glosses to the Priscian text have medical-related information (e.g., fols 66r, 67r, 71r–v, 72v, 73v, and 75r).
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #6949; Bischoff (1989), 79, 114; Pellegrin (2010), vol. 3.2, 838–39.
VERCELLI
BIBLIOTECA CAPITOLARE EUSEBIANA
[#184] MS CXLIV
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 132 fols; 300 x 220 mm
● s. X
Contents
● Isidore’s De sacris ordinibus and the record of the Council of Carthage (436)
Medical material
● Comments: the flyleaf contains 32 recipes for animals and a list of Egyptian Days.
● Tags: phlebotomy, prognostics, recipe, veterinary medicine
Literature
● Mazzatinti (1925), vol. 31, #144.
[#185] MS CLXXVII
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 143 fols; 260 x 190 mm
● s. X
Contents
● Historia Pompei Trogi
Medical content
● Comments: fol. 143r contains a sphere of life and death.
● Tags: figure, prognostics
Literature
● Mazzatinti (1925), vol. 31, #177.
VERONA
BIBLIOTECA CAPITOLARE
[#186] MS XVII (15)
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 299 fols; 260 x 230 mm
● s. VI, Italy, uncial
Contents
● Various works by Jerome, including Adversus Iovinianum (fols 2v–208v), Adversus Helvidium de Mariae virginitate perpetua (fols 248r–281v), and several of his letters
Medical material
● Comments: a medical recipe was written in cursive in s. VI on fol. 2r, which was originally blank; Lowe says the manuscript may have belonged to the poet Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop of Pavia (511–521)
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● CLA IV, #489a; Marchi (1996), 70.
[#187] MS XXI (19)
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 124 fols; measurements unavailable
● 851–900, northern Italy
Contents
● An exegetical and liturgical collection, with Bede’s work on Proverbs, Jerome’s work on Ecclesiastes, Paulinus of Aquileia’s poem De Ioseph, and Augustine’s sermons.
Medical material
● Comments: two incantations that were likely intended for horses were added on fol. 50r and fol. 77v in s. X.
● Tags: prayer/charm, veterinary medicine
Literature
● Bischoff #7032
[#188] MS XC (85)
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 141 fols; measurements unavailable
● s. IX/X, Italy (?)
Contents
● Rhythmi
Medical material
● Comments: a number of additions containing medical content were made by multiple scribes before ca. 1000, including medical incantations and charms (fols 1r–2r, 140v), a list of materia medica (fol. 140r), and veterinary recipes (fol. 141r).
● Tags: list, medical section, prayer/charm, recipe, veterinary medicine
Literature
● Bischoff #7065
VIENNA
ÖSTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBIBLIOTHEK
[#189] Cod. 751
Link: http://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_7949538
Overview
● 188 fols; 270–294 x 163–200 mm
● Composite ms of 5 units (together by 1554), ranging in date from s. IX1(or 2)/4 to s. Xin, with several units originating in Mainz
○ Unit 5 (fols 173–188), containing the medical material, dates to s. Xin, location unspecified
Contents
● Mixture of texts, including Boniface’s letter collection (Unit 1), texts from the New Testament (Unit 2), an Old High German-Latin glossary for the bible (Unit 3), an Augustinian sermon, manumission formulae, and canons (Unit 4), and conciliar canons (Unit 5).
Medical material
● Comments: the final folio, fol. 188v, contains several different medical treatments and animal husbandry-problem-solving texts (e.g., to keep chickens in their nests) that involve recipes, charms, and bloodletting. While much is in Latin, there is also some Old High German.
● Tags: phlebotomy, prayer/charm, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #7155–7157; Bischoff (1981), 3.107.
[#190] Cod. 1888
Link: https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_4097900&order=1&view=SINGLE
Overview
● 227 fols; 190–200 x 153 mm
● s. X2/2, Mainz
Contents
● Liturgical compendium, consisting mainly of a missale and a rituale
Medical material
● Comments: fols 6v–7r contain blessings and prayers for healing; fol.12r–v contains a bloodletting lunary; fol.13r contains a set of Egyptian Days in verse.
● Tags: lunary, phlebotomy, prayer/charm, prognostics
Literature
● Parkes (2015), 226
WOLFENBÜTTEL
HERZOG AUGUST BIBLIOTHEK
[#191] Cod. Guelf. 9.8 Aug. 4°
Link: https://diglib.hab.de/?db=mss&list=ms&id=9-8-aug-4f&lang=en
Overview
● 99 fols; 239 x 155 mm
● s. IX1/2, Saint-Amand
Contents
● The Nota Senecae (i.e., a lexicon of Tironian notes)
Medical contents
● Comments: fol. 99v contains Egyptian Days in Tironian notes (a later addition).
● Tags: phlebotomy, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #7291
WÜRZBURG
UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK
[#192] M.p.th.f. 46
Link: http://vb.uni-wuerzburg.de/ub/mpthf46/pages/mpthf46/1.html
Overview
● 149 fols; 235 x 170 mm
● s. IX1/4, Saint-Amand or Salzburg
Contents
● Computistic texts and tables, with the core being Bede’s De temporum ratione
Medical material
● Comments: fols 19v and 20v–21r contain charms (added in s. X); fol. 98r contains instructions for intoxicating others (added in s. X/XI); fol. 98v contains the names of the Seven Sleepers (added in s. X); and fol. 149r contains a sphere of life and death (added in s. X and copied upside down).
● Tags: figure, prayer/charm, prognostics
Literature
● Bischoff #7484; CLA IX, #1413
[#193] M.p.th.f. 146
Link: http://vb.uni-wuerzburg.de/ub/mpthf146/pages/mpthf146/3.html
Overview
● 114 fols; 295 x 196 mm
● s. IX1/3, Mainfranken area
Contents
● Canon law collection
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 2r contains a recipe added in s. X/XI against fevers, poisons, snake bites, and blockages. This is edited in G. Sticker, “Die gebräuchlichsten Heilkräuter in Deutschland zur Zeit Karls des Großen,” Janus 28 (1924): 21–41.
● Tags: recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #7514; Sticker (1924), 21–41
ZURICH
ZENTRALBIBLIOTHEK
[#194] MS. C 62
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/zbz/C0062/211v/0/Sequence-1142
Overview
● 236 fols; 240–262 x 192–197 mm
● Composite ms of 3 units, ranging in date from s. X to s XII, all produced at St. Gallen
○ Unit 3 (fols 206–236), containing the medical material, dates to s. X
Contents
● Unit 1 is Publius Papinius Statius’ Thebais with glosses
● Unit 2 contains grammatical works
● Unit 3 is a computus collection with tables and parts of Bede’s De natura rerum and De temporum ratione
Medical material
● Comments: fol. 211v contains a sphere of life and death.
● Tags: figure, prognostics
Literature
● Mohlberg (1952), 34–5, 356.
[#195] Ms. C 129
Link: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/zbz/C0129/103v/0/Sequence-1153
Overview
● 106 fols; 200 x 188 mm
● Composite ms of 2 units, both produced at St. Gallen:
○ Unit 1 (fols 1–94) s. IX/X
○ Unit 2 (fols 95–106) s. IXmed–3/4 (i.e., in the time of Louis the German)
Contents
● Unit 1 contains the Liber hermeneumatum (a glossary of the bible)
● Unit 2 contains Charlemagne’s genealogy, letters by pseudo-Seneca, as well as a medical addition
Medical material
● Comments: a version of the Epistola Hippocratis ad Antiochum regem was added to fol. 103v in s. IX/X
● Tags: dietetics, letter, tract
Literature
● Bischoff #7583–7584; von Steinmeyer (1916), 122.
[#196] Ms. Car. C 176
Link: not digitised
Overview
● 242 fols; 163 x 125 mm
● Composite ms of 5 units:
○ Units 1 and 2 (fols 1–136) s. IXmed, southeastern Francia
○ Unit 3 (fols 137–144) s. IX3/3, southwestern Germany
○ Units 4 and 5 (fols 145–240), containing the medical material, dates to s. X/XI, St. Gallen
Contents
● Unit 1 contains Halitgar’s penitential
● Unit 2 is a martyrology
● Unit 3 is canon law
● Units 4 and 5 are both computus collections, including excerpts from Bede, calendrical material, Notker of St. Gallen’s computus, astronomical material, and medical material
Medical material
● Comments: fols 146v and 181v contain a pair of the same recipes; fols 147r–151v contain two works on gems and stones; fols 153v–155r contain charms (including the ‘Three Good Brothers’ charm) and recipes; fols 163r–172r contain a martyrological calendar that notes Egyptian Days and specific herbs recommended in certain months (aligning with dietetic texts); fol. 173v contains a regimen; fols 226r–228r contain Bede on the elements and humors; fol. 238v contains a health lunary and recipe; fol. 239r contains Egyptian Days; fol. 240v contains Qua luna uel qua hora debeas uti medicina. Note: much of the medical material was added to/around the manuscript’s primary texts; some of this is roughly contemporary, some s. XI or potentially s. XII.
● Tags: associated material, lunary, medical section, prayer/charm, prognostics, recipe, regimen
Literature
● Bischoff #7601–7602; Cooijmanns (2020), 6–7; Cianci (2013), 46.
[#197] MS Rh.35
Link: not digitised, online record at https://handschriftencensus.de/11031
Overview
● 91 fols; 275 x 200 mm
● s. IX3/4, upper Rhineland or Lake Constance area
Contents
● Gregory the Great, Regula pastoralis
Medical material
● Comments: a hybrid remedy that combines elements of an incantation and a recipe was added to fols 75v–76r in s. X/XI.
● Tags: prayer/charm, recipe
Literature
● Bischoff #7610
[#198] MS Rh.51
Link: not digitised, online record at https://handschriftencensus.de/18613
Overview
● 183 fols; 260 x 170 mm
● s. IX1/2, Switzerland
Contents
● Homiliary
Medical material
● Comments: two medical incantations were added in s. X to fols 22v–24r.
● Tags: prayer/charm
Literature
● Bischoff #7618