| Description Of Item | The text is relieved with red capitals and diagrams of alembics with different fluids, presumably urine. The 'Judicium' ends on page 134 and is followed by a list of planets and the days of the week; a table showing the dates of a month in terms of zodiac signs which also correlate to the twelve alchemical processes; and a list of names, possibly alchemical elements. On pages 141-144 is a work that starts 'This booke of Ipocras techith...' Page 145 is half missing but appears to contain superstitions relating to days of the week. Pages 146-161 contain prescriptions for various conditions, for example the hot and cold dropsy (p148). Pages 161-172 contain medical texts on blood letting (p161-162) and the affects of astronomy and astrology (p164-165) with a list of planets with their symbols (p169-170). In different hands and added later at the bottom of p171 is a process using mercury; pages 172-173 have a text titled 'Ignis' in verse form; and pages 173-174 have further verses titled 'A descrypcyon of the fort off iniquitye'. Possibly a translation of the work by Walter Aglion (fl 1220-1260) which exists in an online version of an old University of Cambridge manuscripts catalogue. The date is subject to verification as it was originally given as 14th century. |