Gilles de Corbeil, Carmina de judiciis urinarum
- Date:
- Early 15th Century
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- MS.7
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Description
Gilles de Corbeil, Carmina de judiciis urinarum, plus various medical receipts in English
Contents
1. f. 1 r-v A fragment in English containing medical receipts, notes on the colours of urines, etc.
f. 1r Tak ve croppis of horehond and verotis of mylfoil and bray hem in a morter ... A whit water in man by toke nyp sykenes in pe reynys ... f. 1v ... whych cercle is ve hyest region. Explicit.
2. f. 2r-3v Diagrams of urine flasks with explanations in English
3. ff. 3v-6v Gilles de Corbeil, Carmina de judiciis urinarum
f. 3v Ad cognoscendam vrinam humanam ab urina mulieris ... thow shalt understonde that if ver be eny trowbul in manis uryn ... f. 6v Aut nimius coctus cursus labor immoderatus.
The poem is complete except for the 'Proemium' and the last three lines, according to the text as printed in C. Vieillard's L' Urologie et les Médecinsurologues, (Paris, 1903).
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Physical description
The English text is in a small semi-current hand in two columns 38 lines to a column, with paragraph marks in red. The Latin text is in a rounded gothic hand, 39 lines to a page, with headings in red..
The second and third leaves contain 20 crude pen-drawings of urine flasks, some roughly coloured, with Latin headings and English explanatory text. .
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- 42067