tia00255000

Text-inc Id:

tia00255000

Headings:

Albertus Magnus Liber aggregationis, seu Liber secretorum de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium quorundam. De mirabilibus mundi

Subjects:

medicine

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: Liber aggregationis seu liber secretorum. ‘Liber aggregacionis seu liber secretorum Alberti Magni de Virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium quorundam. Liber primus de virtutibus herbarum quorundam.’ Incipit: ‘[S]icut vult philosophus in pluribus locis, omnis scientia de genere bonorum est. Verumtamen enim operatio aliquando bona, aliquando mala ...’ [b5r] Explicit: ‘... voluntatem consequerentur et effectum. Expliciunt secreta aliqua Alberti Magni de Colonia super naturis, virtutibus et efficacia herbarum lapidum et animalium quorundam.’ Several editions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the latest available in the Bodleian Library being Amsterdam: Henricus and Theodor Boom, 1669, pp. 118-53. For a paraphrase of the contents, see Thorndike II, 720-30. For an edition of a sixteenth-century English translation, see The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus of the Virtues of Herbs, Stones and Certain Beasts: Also a Book of the Marvels of the World, ed. Michael R. Best and Frank H. Brightman, Series of Studies in Tudor and Stuart Literature, 2 (Oxford, 1973). For authorship see Glorieux, Répertoire, 6 df; Lynn Thorndike, ‘Further consideration of the “Experimenta”, “Speculum Astronomiae” and “De secretis mulierum” ascribed to Albertus Magnus', Speculum, 30 (1955), 413-43, at 413-23.
2. [b5r] [Recipes for stemming menstruation, for rendering dogs mute, and against damage from dogs; computistic rules]. Incipit: ‘Videtur dicere Isidorus, quod cinis rane magne combuste portatus ad zonas valde retinet fluxum menstruorum ...’ [b7r] Explicit: ‘... et luna mediocres, Mercurius autem cum bonis bonus, cum malis malus.’
3. [b7r] Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: De mirabilibus mundi. Incipit: ‘[P]ostquam scivimus quod opus sapientis est facere cessare mirabilia rerum, que apparent in conspectu hominum, quamvis varia, quamvis diversa ...’ [d7v] Explicit: ‘... Tunica ad volandam debet esse longa, gracilis, pulvere illo optime plena, ad faciendum vero tonitruum brevis, grossa et semiplena.’ ‘Albertus Magnus de Secretis nature explicit.’ Amsterdam: Henricus and Theodor Boom, 1669, pp. 158-203. For a paraphrase of the contents, see Thorndike II, 730-8. For authorship see Glorieux, Répertoire, 6 ds.
4. [d7r] [Computistic addition]. Incipit: ‘[U]t autem, qui legeris que superius posita sunt, uberiorem fructum capias volumus communem regulam et brevem tradere ad sciendum ortum lune secundum epactam ...’ [d8r] Explicit: ‘... unitates scias quod xii. gradus pertransivit, et si tres essent habes xviii. et sic de aliis.’
5. [d8r] [Verse]. ‘Unde versus.’ Incipit: Etatem Lune duplica post addito quinque ... Explicit: ‘... Quinque dabis signo quo Lune incepit origo. [2 lines]’

Imprint:

[Strassburg; [Speyer Printer of the Breviarium Ratisponense (Georgius de Spira?); Johann and Conrad Hist about 1479-82]; about 1484] 4° On the printer see Schanze. Formerly attributed to Johann and Conrad Hist Secundo folio: [a2r] pe habuerit devincet omnes hostes, omnes causas

Collation:

[a-d]⁸. Some spaces left blank for initials, without printed guide letters. Adorned printed initial ([a1r]).

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