Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lyell Empt. 1

Old shelfmarks	Admont 355
Short title	Rasis
Century	13/I (?)
Place of origin	Italy (?)
Language	Latin
Previous owners	Formerly # 355 in the library of the abbey of Admont, Austria. Identifiable in the 1376 catalogue: Item divisions egritudinum incipit "Ventilatus", and in the 1380 catalogue: Item divisiones egritudinum Abubet incipit "Ventilatum fuit" (ed. G. Moser-Mersky, Mittelalt. Bibl.kat. Oesterreichs 3 (1961) 9, 34, 59. Sold by Admont in or after 1934 to L. and A. Brecher of Brünn. Bought by Lyell in Feb. 1941 from Davis and Orioli: see their Cat. 93 # 177.
Material	Membr. (rather poor quality)
Height × width	274 x 190
No. of leaves	44 (44 is a detached pastedown)
Gatherings	1-2^8 3^8(+1) 4^8 5^10
Binding leaves	The pastedowns are formed of parts of two bifolia of a late s. 13 MS. of "quaestiones gramaticales". A section beg.: "Consequentur queritur utrum lego sit oratio perfecta".
Cover	(s. 15) Wooden boards covered with rough white leather. Title written on the front cover in a contemporary hand. (<in) Description in German (s. 19).
Type of writing	a current text hand
No. of columns	2 cols.
Width of columns	190-8 x 140 mm.
Lineation	ruled with a hard point, 40 lines
Marginal annotations	Writing above top line.
Exlibris	(on spine) paper label of the abbey of Admont, Austria
Printed catalogs	A. de la Mare, Catalogue of the Collection of Medieval Manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian Library Oxford by J.P.R. Lyell (1971) 279-80
Source	Mare
Type of source	cat.
Source’s source	insp.

Work 1	Author standard	Gerardus Cremonensis \| Rasis
	Title (ms.)	Liber divisionum
	Incipit	Ventillatum <sic> fuit in presenciam
	Printed copies	For addition on 28, H. Walther, Initia Carminum ac Versuum Medii Aevi Posterioris Latinorum, (1959) 7570.
	Folio no.	1-32v
	Rubric	Incipit liber divisionum verba Abuberi filii Zaccarie Azari ventillatus
	Explicit	delent vestigia earum.
	Glosses etc.	(contemporary Italian hand) mainly medical recipes, including: (16v-7v) "Canon quem scripsit Algazir Adule Cor filius Abimelech filii Cor imperatori Sarracenorum Ali filio Iosephi filii Tesiphin de curatione lapidis", beg.: "Accidencia a quibus conveniencius est cavere", ends: "squillitico ö . et bibatur". (German hand, s. 13-4) charms, recipes, etc. including: (22v) "Ad calculum optima confectio, fecit eam Magister Albertus"; (23) "Pulvis probatissimus Magistri Nicolai de Anglia que cerebrum purgat, vertiginem capitis tollit ... etc. etc."; (32) 2 charms in German; (28) medical precepts in verse, beg.: "Hec precepta sequi debent aliosque docere, end "Hec ut sis sanus et eis contraria serves. Auctor Goswinus est metri non peregrinus" (22 lines); (31v) verses, beg.; "Est quedam forma que cuncta preit sine norma (8 lines); (9v-10) a piece of necromancy.
	T & K	Cf. TK 1684. For the additions cf. TK 14 & 185 (Avenzoar, De curatione lapidis).
Work 2	Author standard	Rasis
	Title (ms.)	Antidotarium
	Incipit	Dixi in hoc meo libro
	Publ. descriptions	For the addition on 39 see E. Wickersheimer, Benédiction des remèdes au moyen age (1952) 99
	Folio no.	32v-41
	Rubric	Incipiunt capitula antidotarii verba Abubacri filii Zacarie Azari
	Explicit	donec inspissetur deinde repone.
	Colophon	Explicit Antidotarium divisionum libri.
	Additional texts	Followed by recipes for a plaster and an ointment, after which the explicit is repeated.
	Glosses etc.	(German hand, s. 13-4) charms, recipes, etc., including: (37v) a piece on the soul and the seats of the faculties, beg.: "Anima secundum officium ... viva est anima (cf. Ps.-Augustine, Liber de spiritu et anima, cap. xiii), continues: "Et nota quod intellectus dicitur esse in fronte, memoria in cerebro, ends: "mens in spiritu; (39) a blessing for medicine, beg.: "Deus qui mirabiliter hominem creasti, ends: "recipere mereatur per d".
	Additional copies	The addition on 37v is also in GOxfB Lyell 8 f. 26va. Addition on 39 in GOxfB Lyell 35 f. 42v.
	T & K	Cf. TK 445; for the addition on 39, cf. TK 410.
Work 3	Author standard	Rasis
	Title (ms.)	Synonima
	Incipit	Altid id est asa fetida
	Folio no.	41v-3v
	Explicit	Zarnab id est psilorrum.
	Colophon	Expliciunt synonoma libri divisionum.
	Additional texts	Followed by a list of measures: Obolus-Cyathos.
	T & K	TK 82