tia00257500

Text-inc Id:

tia00257500

Headings:

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

Subjects:

medicine

Analysis of content:

1. a1r Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: [Titlepage]. ‘Albertus de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium.’
2. a2r Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: Liber aggregationis seu liber secretorum. Incipit: ‘[S]icut vult philosophus pluribus locis omnis scientia de genere bonorum est. Veruntamen enim operatio aliquando bona est, aliquando mala, prout scientia mutatur ad bonum...’ b6r Explicit: ‘... vel temporum qualitates agnoscerent et custodirent in supradictis voluntatem consequerentur et effectum.’ 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.
3. b6r [Recipes for stemming menstruation, for rendering dogs mute, and against damage from dogs; computistic rules]. Incipit: ‘Videtur dicere Isidorus, quod cinis rane magne super se portatus ad zonas valde retinet fluxum menstruorum ...’ b8r Explicit: ‘... et luna mediocres, Mercurius autem cum bonis bonus, cum malis malus.’ Amsterdam: Henricus and Theodor Boom, 1669, pp. 153-8. This is the last part of the third book of the Liber aggregationis, which in this edition follows the explicit and thus appears as a separate text. A second explicit (`Finit liber tercius') is added after the end of the text.
4. b8r Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: De mirabilibus mundi. ‘Eiusdem Alberti Magni de Mirabilibus mundi feliciter incipit.’ Incipit: ‘[P]ostquam scivimus quod opus sapientis est facere cessare mirabilia rerum, que apparent in conspectu hominum ...’ d7r Explicit: ‘... Tunica ad volandam debet esse longa, gracilis, pulvere illo optime plena, ad faciendum vero tonitruum brevis, grossa et semiplena.’ 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.
5. d7r [Computistic addition]. Incipit: ‘[U]t autem, qui legeris que superius notata sunt, uberiorem fructum capias, volumus communem regulam et brevem tradere ad sciendum ortum lune secundum epatam ...’ d8r Explicit: ‘... si duas habes unitates scias quod xii. gradus pertransivit et si tres essent habes xviii. et sic de aliis.’
6. d8r [Verse epilogue]. ‘Unde versus.’ Incipit: Etatem Lune duplica post addito quinque ... Explicit: ‘... Quinque dabis signo quo Lune incipit origo. [2 lines]’

Imprint:

[Geneva Louis Cruse about June 1487]; [about 1477?] 4° Dated by CIBN from the initials and the paper. Dated about 1477 in Pell (by a misprint?), after 1487 by Lőkkös Secundo folio: a3r medium, et hoc experimentum est a modernis.

Collation:

a-b⁸ c⁶ d⁸. Woodcut initials.

References:

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