MONJCA H.

GREEN

PART I: THE LATIN MANUSCRIPTS

The present handlist supplements my article << The Development of the Trotula >>, Revue
d'Histoire des Textes (forthcoming, 1996). There I describe in detail the three constituent texts
of what would later form the so-called Trotula ensemble : the Liber de sinihomatibus mulierum
(LSM) and its Urtext the Tractatus de egritudinibus mulierum (TEM); De curis mulierum
(DCM); and De ornaiu mulierum (DOM). The TEM is found in one version and the LSM
proper in three ; the DCM in two versions; and the DOM in three versions. The Trotula
ensemble- in which the LSM, DCM, and DOM are linked (in that order)- is found in six
distinct versions: the proto-ensemble, the meretrices Group (a subfamily of the proto-ensemble
characterized by particularly unusual features), the transitional ensemble (which subdivides
into Group A and Group B), the intermediate ensemble, the revised ensemble, and the standar-
dized ensemble.
Part I of the present article includes all 122 extant manuscripts of the Latin Trotula, which
comprise 142 copies of either the individual texts or the ensemble. e)
Part I I lists all fifty-two

S Hes Uitgevers, 1989).

KerfPiper N. R. KER (vol. 4 with A. J. PIPER), Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, 4 vols.
(Oxford: Clarendon, 1969-1992).
Meyer Paul MEYER, ,, Manuscrits medicaux en Fran<;ais >>, Romania 44 (1915-17), 161-214.
MLGB N. R. KER, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, 2nd~- (London:
Royal Historical Society, 1964).
MLGBSupp. N. R. KER and A. G. WATSON, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain. Supplement (London:
Royal Historical Society, 1987).
Mss dates Charles SAMARAN and Robert MARICHAL, Catalogue des manuscrits en ecriture laline poriant
des indications de date, de lieu ou de copiste, publication ongoing (Paris: Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique, 1959- ).
Post J. B. PosT, <<Ages of Menarche and Menopause: Some Medieval Authorities>>, Population
Studies 25 (1971), 83-87.
SA Sudhoffs Archiv.
Singer Dorothea Waley SINGER, << Handlist of Western Scientific Manuscripts in Great Britain and
Ireland dating from before the sixteenth century», manuscript filecards deposited in the
Manuscript Reader's Room, British Library, Box 31.
Spitzner Hermann SPITZNER, Die salernitanische Gynaukologie und Geburtshilfe unter dem Namen der
Trotula (inaugural diss., Leipzig, 1921).
Summ. cat. F. MADAN, H. H. E. CRASTER and N. DENHOLM-YouNG, Summary Catalogue of Western
Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, 7 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1895-1953).
Talbot & Hammond C. H. TALBOT and E. A. HAMMOND, The Medical Practitioners in Medieval England: A
Biographical Register (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965).
T-K 2 Lynn THORNDIKE and Pearl KIBRE, lncipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin, 2nd
ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: Medieval Academy of America, 1963), passim (cited by column
number).
Trinity cat. M. R. JAMES, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge: A
Descriptive Catalogue, 4 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1900-1904).
VL Kurt RuH (general editor), Die deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon, 2nd ed.,
in progress (Berlin(New York: Waiter de Gruyter, 1978- ). Entries will be cited by volume
number and column number.
Wickersheimerf Jacquart Ernest WICKERSHEIMER, Dictionnaire biographique des medecins en France au Moyen
Age, 2 vols. (1936; repr. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1979); and Danielle JACQUART, Supple-
ment to Ernest Wickersheimer, Dictionnaire biographique des medecins en France au Moyen
Age (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1979). I cite the Supplement as vol. 3.
(2) I have included the lost Admont ms in this list in the ev·ent that it resurfaces someday. I exclude, however,
mss known to be destroyed, including Louvain-la-Neuve, Universite Catholique, MSS G 58 and G 59, which
disappeared in a fire in 1914; and Wroclaw (Breslau), Stadtbibliothek, MS 1302 (s. xn ex.jxui in.), the famous
'' Breslau Codex,>> in which an excerpt from the LSM (~~75, 75a, 76, 77, and 78) from the proto-ensemble (or
LSM 4 ?) was written by a somewhat later hand. See Karl SunHOFF, << Die Salernitaner Handschrift in Breslau
(Ein Corpus medicinae Salerni), >> Archiv fiir Geschichte der Medizin 12 (1920), 101-148 (plus plate), at p. 148.

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copies of the twenty-four different vernacular translations or Latin re-writings that I have thus
far identified. e)In cross-referencing, I have referred to the Latin manuscripts by their number
only. I refer to manuscripts of the vernacular versions and Latin re-writings, however, by their
language, version, and copy using the following abbreviations: Catalan (Cat), Dutch (Dut),
English (Eng), French (Fren), Hebrew (Heb), Irish (Ir), Italian (Ital), Latin prose (LP), and
Latin verse (LV). Hence, for example, Eng3b refers to the second manuscript of the third
English translation.
With the exception of vernacular translations that have been edited, I have verified every
entry on the handlists by personal inspection of the manuscript andfor by examination of a
photographic reproduction. If the description was made solely from film or photocopy, this is
noted with an asterisk (*). In those few instances when a reproduction could not be obtained
(noted with a =#), the description replicates that of the library's catalog or some other published
description. e) Previous citations or attributions that I have determined to be erroneous have
been listed in the Appendix to Part I I.
Dates of many Latin manuscripts were estimated (from photographic reproductions) by
Professor Richard H. Rouse of the University of California at Los Angeles. Patricia Stirnmpann
kindly dated the Latin manuscripts at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Additionally, The-
resa Webber of the University of Southampton gave me the benefit of her expertise with
several of the earliest manuscripts. C) In all other cases, dates are those assigned in the library's
catalogue or other printed reference.
I have been liberal in my descriptions of the texts. In all cases, I 'have given the incipit and
explicit (including rubrics, indicated with diamond brackets [ < >]) of each text. This is true
even for copies of the ensemble in order to indicate both when scribes recognized distinctions
between the constitu,ent texts and when they did not. The passage in U151 of the DCM that
cites Trotaj<< Trotula >> is also included because of its historical importance. ( 6 ) Standard abbre-
viations have been silently expanded.
Other contents have been indicated only in the most schematic way to give a sense of the
character of the codex as a whole. While I have indicated when other Salernitan medical texts
are present, I have not always attempted to list them in full. The one exception is that I
identify individually all material in the manuscripts relating to women's healthcare, since (like
the Trotula) medieval gynecological literature in general has not yet been well surveyed. C)
Readers may consult the printed catalogues or published descriptions (as cited) for more

(3) Here I have included two Turin mss (Fren2Id and Fren7b), destroyed in 1904, since they were sufficiently
well-described to permit categorization.
(4) Even in those cases where I have not been able to consult the ms myself, with the exception of the Admont
ms (Latin ms 1) and the two Turin mss that were destroyed in 1904 (Fren2Id and Fren7b), I have confirmed that
the ms is still in the possession of the cited institution and that the shelfmark is current.
(5) To all three of these scholars I owe my deepest gratitude. Naturally, none of them is responsible for any errors
of judgment or fact that might remain.
(6) See section B.l.b of «The Development of the Trotula >> for full discussion.
(7) Two particular kinds of texts with which the Trotula circulated should be pointed out: presalernitan gyneco-
logical texts (i.e., works written prior to the twelfth century, including the Gynaecia of Caelius Aurelianus,
Muscio, and pseudo-Cleopatra): mss 14, 16, 31, 65, 72, 73, 79, 87, 93, 113 and 122; and pseudo-Albertus Magnus,
Secreta mulierum, a speculative natural-philosophical tract on ''woman's nature, » written in Germany probably
in the late thirteenth century: mss 5, 22, 26, 29, 58, 61, 82, 88 (fragment), 114, and 121. For an overview of
medieval gynecological literature, see Monica H. GREEN, ''Recent Work on Women's Medicine in Medieval
Europe, >> Society for Ancient Medicine Review, no. 21 (1993), pp. 132-41.

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detailed information on the manuscripts and their contents. Information on owners is limited to
individuals or institutions that possessed the manuscript up through ea. 1600. Again, readers
may consult the catalogues or other cited literature for further information. Information on
scribes has been included whenever their identity could be determined.
I would greatly appreciate it if readers would bring to my attention notices of newly
discovered manuscripts.

LATIN MANUSCRIPTS(:

1. ~Admont, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 496, ff. 32r-36v ( ?) (s. xrv): LSM (or whole ensemble?).
Cum auctor universitatis deus ... Other contents: Giles of Corbeil, De urinis, with commentary of
Gilbertus Anglicus; Urso, Liber de effeciibus qualitatum; Maurus, De urinis. Described: handwritten
catalogue. The manuscript was sold during World War II and has not been identified since.
2. *Barcelona, Archivo de la Corona de Arag6n, MS Ripoll 181, ff. 203r-206r (s. xnr in., Spain
or Catalonia): LSM 3 (incomplete). Cvm auctor uniuersitatis deus in prima mundi constitutione ...
Text breaks off abruptly on f. 206r (U57) : ... et mulier sedens bene coopertae fumum interius
recipiat. Followed by six lines of a recipe in another hand, leaving one-third of the page blank. Other
contents : medical texts, including J ohannes Afflacius, Liber aureus; Alexander of Tralles; and
several Salernitan authors. Described: Zacharias Garcia, Bibliotheca Patrum Latinorum Hispa-
niensis, I I. Band, Sitzungsberichte der kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaflen in Wien, Philoso-
phisch-historische Klasse 169. Band, 2 Abhandlung (1915), pp. 83-84; see also Beaujouan, passim.
3. Easel, Offentliche Universitatsbibliothek, MS D.II.17, ff. 24ra-52rb (s. xm 2 , Italy): stan-
dardized ensemble. < Incipit liber de passionibus mulierum secundum Trotulam. > Cvm auctor
uniuersitatis deus in prima mundi constitutione ... F. 35va: ... ut sunt cepe, pastinace domestice et
similia. < Cura. > Ut a nobis de curatione mulierum ·~F. 38ra: Vnde contingit quod Trotula uocata
fuit quasi magistra operis ... F. 46ra: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. <De palliandis mulieribus. > Ut
mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ... F. 52rb: ... et mane lal1et cum aqua tepida. Amen. Explicit
Trotula. Tu autem domine misere nostri. Other contents: Johannes de S. Paolo, De simplicium
medicinarum uirtulibus; tract on fabrication of colors; Petrus Hispanus, De morbis oculorum (in three
books); Cure magistri Petri Lumbardi (physician to Amadeus IV of Savoy c. 1250). Owner: Amer-
bach family of Easel. Described: handwritten catalogue (1939). Cited: T-K 2 (284).
4. -,-,MS D.III.1 (fol.), ff. 115ra-b, 115vb-116ra (ea. 1420, Italy?). DOM, perhaps from
transitional ensemble (excerpts). F. 115ra-b (U305f): Sunt non nulle mulieres que propter magnitudi-
nem instrumenti ... aspersione redo let. Et hec de ornatu mulierum dicta sufficiunt. Followed on f.
115va-b by five new recipes for vaginal constrictives. F. 115vb, DOJ\.1 recommences with U242: Vt
mulier inferius sit sine pilis ... F. 116ra (U243): ... si exsolatur [sic] cutim contingat deperdis.
<Explicit. Amen.> Other contents: followed immediately by Practica puerorum (two versions);
large collection of texts on practical medicine, mostly by Arabic authors. No published description.
5.Berlin, N.
Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, MS Hamilton 433, ff. 51ra-71ra (s. xv 2 , Italy): proto-
ensemble (meretrices Group). Incipit liber [de] syntomatibus id est passionibus mulierum qui dicitur
Trocula mulierum quam due meretrices silicet mater et filia sua edideret [sic]. Narn cum diuersas
circuebant teras multa experiebantur ut hie patet. Cum autor uniuersitatis deus in prima origine
mundi ... LSM text includes two substantial addit;ions: (1) between VU44 and 45 there is: <Nota
ista de matrice > Matrix secundum Alexandrum in anthornia et rei veritatem est frigida et sicca ... ;
(2) within V74 is inserted additional discussion on conception: Sunt et testatur Ypocras in tempo-
ribus que dicuntur iuuenibus ... F. 62rb: ... ut sunt cepe, pastinace domestice et similia vnde non
quod quecumque sunt augumentatici lac et sperma ut feniculus et similia. <Explicit Trotula. Inci-
pit sua filia de curis mulierum et primo qua causa laboret. > Ut de curis mulierum compendiosa ...

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11"151 with Trotaj<< Trotula »anecdote is omitted. F, 70va (11"235, Contra scabiem manum): ... ut ardeat
et inungat cum illo manus. Ad suauitaten [sic] cutis mulierum. < U >t mulier plauissima [sic] et
suauissimam [sic] fiat ... '[1!"242, 243, and 247 of DOM (in abbreviated form), then a remedy to
clarify the voice and three to determine if a wounded man will die, ending : ... Sed cum vomit, non
euadet. Si non uomit, euadet. <Explicit am be Trotule, mater et sua filia, perfecte et bene.> Cf. mss
82 and 95 for same version of text. Followed immediately by some verses from the Regimen Salerni-
tanum, some excerpts from a Latin-German glossary, and then pseudo-Mbertus Magnus, De secretis
mulierum (ff. 71rb-86ra). Other contents: miscellaneous medical texts; Sententiae Secundi Philoso-
phi; excerpts from Flos medicinae Scolae Salernitanae; recipes in Italian and Latin. Owner?:
Jacobus Cerutis Aromatarius of Parma. Described: Helmut Boese, Die lateinischen Handschriften der
Sammlung Hamilton zu Berlin (Wiesbaden : Otfo Harrossowitz, 1 966), pp. 206-8.
6. *Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, MS 14324-43, ff. 228va-242va (ea. 1230-50, N. France):
transitional ensemble (Group A). < Incipiunt cure Trotule. > Cum auctor iste uniuersitatis ·deus
in prima mundi origine ... F. 234ra: ... ut sunt sepe et similia pastinace domestice. <De curis
mulierum. > Vt de curis mulierum ... F. 235ra: Vnde quasi rupte apparent. Vnde Trotula notata fuit
tamquam magistra ... F. 238va: ... et minget uelit nolit. Si uero non, non. <Vt mulieres fiant sine
-pilis. > Sicut ait Ypocras in pronosticis, omnis qui medicine artis studio seu gloriam et cetera ne
medicus in singulis ad artem pertinentibus uideatur inermis. Ut ergo mulier planissima et suauissima
... F. 242va, ends with Unguentum uxoris Petri uiuiani ('rr309f): ... et spusum [sic] ita quod inde
formari pillule minute parum. <Explicit.> A different hand then adds a test to determine if a girl is
a virgin. Other contents: treatises on theoretical and practical medicine, including several by Saler-
nitan authors. Described : Roger Calcoen, Inventaire des manuscrits scieniifiques de la Bibliotheque
Royale A lbert Jer, 3 vols. (Brussels: Centre National d'Histoire des Sciences, 1 965-75), 3 :80-81. Cited :
Spitzner (cited as MSS 14325 and 14339).
7. * - , - , MS 14344-58, ff. 108vb-120rb (s. x1v 1 , N. France): revised ensemble. < Incipit
Trotula. > Cum auctor vniuersitatis et humani generis deus iuprima mundi origine ... F. 113va: ...
ut cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. Ut a nobis de curatione muli~;rum ... F. 114va: bene [sic]
contingit quod Trotula uocata fuit quasi magistra operis. F. 117vb: .. :- et eo manus frica-bis. 1f Vt
mulier planissima et suauissima ... F. 120rb ('rr311): ... et inde faciem tuam laua. <Explicit Tro-
cula. > Other contents: several treatises of practical medicine (especially materia medica), including
several by Salernitan authors as well as Pantegni, Practica translated by Constantinus Africanus.
Described: Calcoen, op. cit., 3 :82-3. Cited: Spitzner (cited as MS 14347).
8. *-,-,MS 15478-89, ff. 174r-195r (s. xrv in., N. Europe): intermediate ensemble. Head-
ing: Sancti spiritus assit nobis gracia. Cum auctor uniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F.
181v: ... ut pastinace et similibus. [marg.: Explicit minor Trotula. Incipit maior Trotula.] Vt de
curis mulierum compendiosa nobis ... F. 183r: Vnde contingit quod Trotula uocata fuit cum quedam
puella ... Ff. 184v-185r: several additional recipes inserted between '['[167 and 168 from Richardus
Anglicus, De ornatu, for redness of the face (inc.: Rubor in facie quandoque fit de sanguine ... Manus
ipsa infusa, et de--compressione illiniatur facies. Cf. mss 24 and 86.) F. 189r: ... et inde manus
inungantur. Vt mulier planissima inueniatur ... F. 195r: ... et mane lauet cum aqua tepida. Followed
by additional recipes from Richardus Anglicus, De ornatu (as in ms 24), including tests for virginity
and several pessaries (inc.: Alcanna si distemperetur cum saluia ... uel in clisteri super unum cifum
plenum debes inicere liquoris uel succi.) Text for rubrics written in margins through f. 186r, but
never inserted into main text. Other contents : texts on anatomy; excerpt from Secretum secretorum;
Macer and another text on simples; Constantinus Africanus, De universalibus dieiis, De particularibus
dietis, De siomacho, De urinis, De febribus; Giles of Corbeil, De urinis with commentary. Described:
J. Marchal, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliotheque Royale des Dues de Bourgogne (Brussels and
Leipzig: C. Muquardt, 1842), p. 310. Cited: Spitzner (cited as MS 15486).

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9. *Cambrai, Bibliotheque Municipale, MS 916, ff. 214ra-222vb (s. XIII ex., N. France or
England): intermediate ensemble. ( 8 ) F. 214ra: Cum actor utilitatis deus in prima mundi origine
... F. 219va: ... ut cepa, pastinac~ et similia. [U]t de curis mulierum nobis compendiosa fiat ... F.
220va: Vnde contingit quod Trotula uocata fuit tamquam magistra operis ... Omits DCM 11"11"188-192
(11"11"193 and 194 are collapsed together), 199-205, 208-211 (new material on provoking the menses
added after 11"213), 214-226, 228, and 230-241. DOM section has only mT258, 261-62, 269-70, 293b,
296a and 310. F. 222vb: ... unguento isto mulier faciem suam inungat. Followed immediately by
Passiones puerorum adhuc in cunabulis on ff. 222vb-223rb. Other contents: tracts on surgery, ana-
tomy, phlebotomy, and other aspects of practical medicine. Owner: Abbaye de Saint-Sepulcre de
Cambrai. Described: Cat. gen. 17 :370-71. Cited: Spitzner; T-K 2 (284).
10. *Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.XI.45 (cat. 671), ff. 62v-80v (s. xv
med., England): e) standardized ensemble. Heading: Hie secuntur que [sic] capitula Trotule de
passionibU:s mulierum. LSM section begins with 11"11"64, 74-78, 70-71, and 82. From there on, aside
from the omission of 11"128 (which is removed to the end of the text on f. 80v), the rest of the LSM
text is normal. <De nimia caliditate mulierum. > Contingit aliquando matricem distemperari ... F.
67v : ... ut sunt sepe, pastinace domestica et similia. <De cura alia eiusdem. > Ut a nobis de
curatione compendiosa ... F. 70r: Vnde contigit quod Trotula notata fuit quasi magistra operis. F.
76v : ... et cum eo manus fricabuntur. <De palliacione. > Vt mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ...
F. 80v: ... et mane lauet cum aqua tepida. Then V128 follows, ending: ... aut male redolens infantis
nutrimento non est conveniens. Explicit. Other contents : Petrus Hispanus, Liber pauperum; various
practical medical tracts; two Latin-English dictionaries of herbs; recipes and notes in Latin and
English. Described: A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of
Cambridge, 5 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres, 1856; repr. Hildesheim and New York:
Georg Olms, Munich: Kraus, 1980), 1 :445-46. Cited: T-K 2 (259); Meyer.
11. *-, Clare College, MS 12 (G 1 .3.2, olim Kk.III.13), ff. 221 v-227v (s. XIII med., England):
DCM 2. Heading (later hand): lncipit liber Trote de curis mulierum. Vt ait Ypocras de curis
mulierum compendiosa ... F. 222r: Vnde contingit quod tota [sic] uocata fuit quasi magistra ... F.
227v, ends with 'IT232q (Ad eiciendum uermes) : ... uermes quasiJilos cadentes. Followed immediately
by four more gynecological and cosmetic recipes from an unidentified source, endmg : ... sic stringit
quasi uirgo esset. Exspliciunt Experimenta Atrote. Other contents: medical tracts, including works
of Isaac Israeli, Bartholomaeus, Johannes Afflacius, and Nicholaus. Described: Montague Rhodes
J ames, A Descriptive Catalogue of the West ern Manuscripts in the Library of Clare College, Cambridge
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1905), pp. 21-24. Cited: T-K 2 (1612, where it is erroneous-
ly numbered 15 [Kk.IV.2]).
12. - , Gonville and Caius College, MS 84/166, pp. 227a-241a (ea. 1215-35, England?): inter-
mediate ensemble. Cum auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... P. 232a : ... ut sunt
cepe pastinace et huiusmodi. Vt de curis mulierum compendiosa habeantur tradicio ... P. 233b: Vnde
contingit quod Trotula vocata fuit tamquam magistra operis ad quamdam puellam que puella debuit
incidi et admirata fuit Trotula. P. 236b: apparently due to a misplaced leaf in the exemplar, the text
breaks ofLirr 'IT227, after which appear DOM V'IT250-278. At the bottom of p. 237b, the scribe then
repeats several words from V227, now finishing the recipe on p. 238a and continuing with the

(8) Ms 9 shares many peculiar readings with ms 118, such as the interpolation in 1T132 sciendum est [secundum
118] quod quedam mulieres istius membri nimia calitate [sic] quedam nimia frigiditate intensa ad conceptum impe-
diuntur. Both mss in particular bear signs of collation with a copy of an early form of the proto-ensemble (or
LSM 4 ?), e.g., the presence of 1T39a, the restoration of 1T82 to its original position as 1T75a, etc.
(9) Linda Voigts (personal communication, May 1995) has identified this as a « Sloane Group>> ms, i.e., one of a
group of mss written in England in the 1450s and 1460s which exhibit shared paper sources, mise en page, and
text and display hands. See Linda Ehrsam VorGTS, <<The 'Sloane Group': Related Scientific and Medical Manu-
scripts from the Fifteenth Century in the Sloane Collection,>> The British Library Journal 16 (1990), 26-57.

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remainder of the DCM thus : ... postea duo oua et exinde fricabis manus. <De planitie. > Vt mulier
suauissima et planissima ... On p. 239a, the text skips from U249 to U294. The text then continues
uninterrupted until p. 240a when it reaches U309a. UW278-293c then follow. On p. 241, the text
jumps to U309b; the text is normal from here to the end. P. 241a: ... et mane lauet cum aqua tepida.
Explicit Trotula. The 16th-century owner (John Argentine?), who added notes elsewhere in the ms,
began to recopy the Trotula (Ul through (( gremio nature conciperet >>) on p. 355. Other contents : ff.
227-241 originally part of a different ms; later bound with other Latin medical texts, plus calendars
and recipes in English. Owner: possibly owned by John Argentine (d. 1508), physician and provost
of King's College, Cambridge; later by Thomas Grovis, abbot (1524-35) of Augustinian Abbey of
Darley (Derbyshire). (1°) Described: Montague Rhodes James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manu-
scripts in the Library of Gonville and Caius College, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1907), 1 :79-82. C') Cited: T-K' (284).
13. - , - , MS 117/186, pp. 239a-250b (s. xm med., England): revised ensemble. < C> urn
auctor uniuersitatis de us in prima origine mundi ... P. 248a : ... ut cepe, pastinace domestice et
similia. <De cognitione qualitatum mulierum.> Ut a nobis de curatione mulierum ... P. 250a: Vnde
contigit quod Trotula notata fuit quasi magistra operis ... P. 250b, breaks off at end of U156: ... et
dolori imponimus. The rubric that followed has been erased. The following two leaves cut away.
Other contents: originally part of a different ms; bound (almost certainly by Roger Marchall) with
other medical works, including Gerard's comm. on the Viaticum, Roger de Baron, the Practica of
Petrus Musandinus and Archimattheus. Marchall made a table of contents of eight of the fifteen
items in the newly assembled codex; he referred to the Trotula as Trotula minor. Owners: Roger
Marchall (ea. 1417-1477), physician and fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge; (' 2 ) donated by Marchall
to Gonville Hall. Described: James, Catalogue ... of Gonville and Caius, 1 :124-6. Cited: Bayon.
14. - , St. John's College, MS D.4 [James 79], ff. 30vb-32rb (s. xm ex.;xrv in., England):
proto-ensemble (selected capp. from LSM only). Incipit practica Trotule de passionibus mulie-
rum. Cum autor iste vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 32rb (U128) ... lac erunt salsam
male oloris [sic] infantis nutrimento non est conveniens. Has UUl-10, 13-14, 19, 29-35, 40, 43, 45-49,
60, 63, 75-77, 79-80, 83-84, 86, 113-114, 126-128 (i.e., menstruation, uterine suffocation, prolapse,
fertility, contraceptives, signs of a male fetus, choice of a nurse"' and infantile pustules). Other
contents (of first manuscript of three): medical texts, including PomumAmbre; Waiter Agilon, De
dosibus medicinarum; Phisica Urbani (in verse); Liber magistri Petri de Salerno transposiius a latino
in romanam ad instanciam Margarete fregille regine Yspanie de omnibus opi[ni]onibus uniuersorum
magistrorum tunc Salerine [sic] commorancium. (' 3 ) Bound by s. xv with s. xnr 1 Italian ms of medical
texts, and by s. xv ex.fxvr in. with large s. xn 1 Italian collection of gynecological texts. (' 4 ) Descri-
bed: Montague R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Si John's
College Cambridge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913), pp. 105-7. Cited: Salvatore De
Renzi, Storia documentata della Scuola medica di Salerno, 2nd ed. (Naples, 1857), p. xxxv-v1.
15. *-, -, MS F.18 (James 155], ff. 75r-89v (s. xv2 , England): revised ensemble. Heading
(later hand): Jesus : Christus : Maria : Johannes : Margareta. Cvm auctor vniuersitatis omnes in

(10) Dennis E. RHOBEs,--John Argentine, Provost of King's: His Life and his Library (Amsterdam: Menno Hertz-
berger & Co., 1967), p. 19; MLGB, pp. 55 and 250; and MLGBSupp, p. 84. Ker and Watson say nothing about
Argentine; On Argentine, see also Talbot & Hammond, 112-15; and Getz MPME, 263.
(11) See also Comelius O'BoYLE, Medieval Prognosis and Astrology: A Working Edition of the 'Aggregaiiones de
crisi et creiicis diebus' with Introduction and English Summary, Cambridge Wellcome Texts and Documents, 2
(Cambridge, Engl.: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 1991), pp. 20-21.
(12) The definitive study on Marchall is now Linda Ehrsam VOIGTs, ''A Doctor and His Books: The Manuscripts
of Roger Marchall, >> in Richard BEADLE and A. J. PIPER, eds., New Science Out of Old Books: Studies in Manu-
scripls and Early Printed Books in Honour of A. I. Doyle (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995), pp. 249-314.
(13) On this last tract (which despite its Latin title is a French text), see Tony HuNT, Popular Medicine in
Thirteenth-Century England: Introduction and Texts (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), p. 146.
(14) On the latter collection, see Green, Genecia, esp. pp. 310-11, n. 45. My thanks to Consuelo Dutschke for her
paleographical analysis of this codex.

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mundi prima origine ... F. 81 v: ... vt cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. <De diuersa complexione
mulierum. > Vt a nobis de curacione mulierum ... F. 83r: Vnde contingit quod Trotula vocata fuit
quasi magistra operis. F. 86v: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. <De modo preparandi mulierem vt ( ?)
pulchra fiat.> Vt mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ... F. 89r: ... et mane lauet cum aqua tepida.
Explicit liber factus a muliere salernitana que Trotula vacatur. Chapters numbered 1-86. F. 89v:
incomplete table of 18 chapters. Other contents: treatises on natural philosophy, including mathe-
matics, astronomy, astrology, prognostication; tracts on rhetoric and metrics; Waiter Map, Apoca-
lypsis Goliae; Mirabilia Orientis. Described: James, Catalogue ... of Si John's, pp. 186-8. Cited:
Bay on.
16. -,Trinity College, MS 903 (R.XIV.30), fL 187r-204v (new foliation, 74r-91v) (s. xm ex.,
France): proto-ensemble (incomplete). lncipit Trotula de ornatu mulierum. [C]um auctor uniuer-
sitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 199v: ... ut cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. <De cura
mulierum. > [E]t ut de curis mulierum compendiosa ... F. 202v: Unde contingit quod custa [sic]
uocata fuit quasi magistra. F. 204v (text ends in middle of ,-r167, Unguenium salernilane mulieres ad
mulias egriiudines): ... mundamus radicem lilii et in aqua decoquimus. Other contents: Cura contra
omnes passiones matricis (ff. 204v-210v); (1 5 ) pseudo-Cleopatra, Gynaecia (ff. 211r-214r), here with a
unique preface attributing it to an << Ascaritanus philosophus >>; De passionibus mulierum B (ff.
214r-220r), here attributed to << Trotula >>; (1 6 ) miscellaneous recipes in Latin and Proven<;al; Pomum
ambre; a medical miscellany. ( 17) This once formed a single codex with London, British Library, MSS
Egerton 823 and 840A which contain, respectively, two texts on the astrolabe, and brief religious
texts in prose and verse, Theophilus' tract on the arts, and Heraclius' De coloribus et ariibus Romano-
rum. Owner: Johannes de London (fl. 1310), who gave it to Benedictine Abbey of St. Augustine's,
Canterbury; owned in 1583 by the mathematician and astronomer John Dee (1527-1608). (1 8 )
Described: Montague Rhodes James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College,
Cambridge: A Descriptive Catalogue, 4 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1900-1904),
2:314-16; Paul Meyer, « Recettes medicales en Provenc;al d'apres le MS. R.14.30 de Trinity College
(Cambridge)>>, Romania 32 (1903), 268-99, at pp. 269-74. Cited: Spitzner; Meyer.
17. Carpentras, Bibliotheque Municipale Inguibertine,MS 320, ff. 1r-3v (s. xv, France?): ~:~tan­
dardized ensemble (excerpts). F. 1r (,-r51): De des[censu matricis]. Si cont-ingat post partum
matricem de suo loco ... F. 3v (1f271): et inde capillos frica inter manus. Hoc sirones expellit et
occidit. Primarily chapters on childbirth and fertility, urogenital disorders, and (from the DOM) hair

(15) This text identifies nine diseases specific to the uterus: predpitatio matricis, suffocatio matricis, retentio
menstruorum, fluxus menstruorum, mola matricis, aborsus, impedimentum conceptionis, difficultas pariendi, and
apostema matricis. It is strictly practical in orientation, with no theoretical excursuses. I have not as yet
identified any other copies; a couple of cross-references to other chapters (neither of which is present here)
suggests that this is excerpted from a larger Practica.
(16) Both the Gynaecia Cleopalrae and De passionibus mulierum B (elsewhere attributed to Theodorus Priscianns,
Galen, and others) are late antique texts; neither has yet been edited. For discussion of both see Green, Genecia.
On the Dpm B, see also Hanson & Green, pp. 1054-1057 and 1073-74.
(17) Headed by a later hand Tractatus de secretis mulierum et aliis, this receptary in fact has only a few gynecolo-
gical re-cipes; the St. Augustine's library catalogue referred to it more appropriately as a << Practica specialis. >>
(18) On John of London, see A. B. EMDEN, Donors of Books to S. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, Oxford Biblio-
graphical Society, Occasional Publication, 4 (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1969), pp. 11-12; and
Steven J. WILLIAMS, <<The Scholarly Career of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Secretum secretorum in the Thirteenth and
Early Fourteenth Century,» Ph. D. dissertation, Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, 1991), pp. 93-94
and p. 223, n. 48. See also Montague Rhodes JAMES, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The
Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury and of Si. Martin's
Priory at Dover (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), p. 385 (cat. 1599); MLGBSupp, pp. 12 and 82;
Andrew G. WATSON, <<A St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, Manuscript Reconstructed: Trinity College Cam-
bridge MS R.14.30 and British Library MSS Egerton 823 and 840A, >)Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographi-
cal Society 6 (1975), 211-17; Julian RosERTS and Andrew WATSON (eds.), John Dee's Library Catalogue (London:
Bibliographical Society, 1990), p. 131 (item M199). Watson (1975, p. 215) points out that the depilatory recipe
added on the bottom of f. 210v (now 104v) is in John of London's own hand.

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care. Other contents: originally an independent pamphlet that contained only a few recipes and
some brief astrological indications. Later bound with table of medicinal plants and a short medical
text entitled Liber patris pauperum. Owner: apparently owned by Ant[onius] Payxius, who recorded
the receipt of collateral for a loan on f. 12v. Described: Cat. gen. 34:157. Cited: Spitzner.
18. *Darmstadt, Hessische Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek, MS 463, ff. 195r-213v (after an.
1493, Germany): revised ensemble. Cvm auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi constitucione ...
F. 203v: ... vt sunt cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. < Cura. > Ut a nobis de curacione mulierum
... F. 205v: Vnde contingit quod Trocula vocata fuit quasi magistra operis. F. 211v: ... et cum eo
manus fricabis. The opening 'IT'll' of the DOM are missing; the lacuna is marked as follows : + post
illud signum in libro experimentoris ( ?) cum rubrico impressum et post faciendum amidum. Text
recommences with '11'275: Deinde, At hoc facto eat ad malneum [sic] ... F. 213v: ... et mane lauet
cum aqua tepida. Explicit Trocula. Other contents: John of Gaddesden, Rosa anglica; Richard us
Anglicus, Anatomia; text on phlebotomy; German and Latin oblgyn recipes (ff. 218v-233r);
Johannes de Sancto Paulo, De simplicibus medicinis. Owner: inscription on f. 1r: « 1561 I Ex libris
Arnoldi Comitis in Manderscheid et Blankenheim I domini in Junckeroidt )) ; later owned by Count
Hermann von Manderscheid (1543-1604) in Blankenheim (diocese of Trier). (1 9 ) Described: type-
script description by Hermann Knaus (1959). (2°)
19. *Dublin, Trinity College, MS 367, ff. 55ra-61rb (s. xm 2 , France [Montpellier?]): transitio-
nal ensemble (Group B). Text opens with '11'29 : Habundant quandoque menstrua ultra modum
quod contingit ... F. 56ra: omits '11''11'83-88 on contraceptives and development of the fetus. F. 57rb:
... ut cerebella, pastinace domestice et similia. <De impedimenta ex ea.> Ut de curis mulierum ...
F. 58ra: Vnde contingit quod Trotula uocata fuit magistra ... F. 60rb: ... postea duo oua et manus
inde frice.Iltur. 'IT Vt mulier planissima et suauissima ... F. 60vb: text breaks off in '11'268 due to loss of
a leaf between ff. 60 and 61. Excerpts from Richardus Anglicus, De ornatu, on f. 61ra. Lower half of
f. 61 torn away with resulting loss of text. DOM recommences on f. 61rb with 'IT'IT308, 302-3, and 307.
F. 61rb ('11'307): ... foramine quod in matricem uadit. Explicit. Marginal notations and additional
recipes added by at least two later hands. Other contents: original ms (ff. 6-62) contains texts on
practical medicine (including Maurus, De urinis) and astronomy. Later bound with other pamphlets
a
with medical, astronomical, and calendrical texts (including world map). Owner: <<John' Edward'
de Chyrke armiger est pocessor huius liber f A vynno duw dervyd~))'(f. 1r, s. 16 [latter phrase is
Welsh]). Described: Marvin L. Colker, Trinity College Dublin. Descriptive Catalogue of the Mediaeval
and Renaissance Latin Manuscripts, 2 vols. (Hants, Eng.: Scalar Press for Trinity College Dublin,
1991), 1 :761-68.
20. *-,-,MS 3528/37, ff. 1r-2v (s. XIII med., England): standardized ensemble (fragment,
'IT'IT170-271). Running header: Trotula. <De carne orta in matrice.> [S]unt quedam quibus frusta
carni[s] pendent a matrice ... F. 2rb: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. <De palliandis mulieribus. > Vt
mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ... F. 2v: Item lupinos amaros pul-. Spaces for initials left blank.
Loose bifolium; formerly used in a binding. Described: Colker, op. cif., 2 :1311.
21. *Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library, MS 167 (D.b.V.21), ff. llv-15v (s. xm 1 ,
England): DOM1. < Incipit liber de ornatu mulierum. > Ut ait Ypocras in libro quem de pronosti-
corum scientia edidit ... F. 15v: ... Nota quod per duo dies aut per tres istud durabit. Other contents:
besides a treatise-on the division of the sciences, the rest are medical and surgical treatises, including
Liber compendii magistri Salebeni. Owner: belonged in 1431 to Robartus [sic] Glaspullus. Described:
Catherine R. Borland, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts in Edinburgh University
Library (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1916), pp. 251-52.

(19) Handschriftenerbe, 1:87. For the history of the Bibliothek der Grafen von Manderscheid, see Hermann
KNAus, << Darmstadter Handschriften mittelrheinischer Herkunft, )> Archiv fiir Hessische Geschichte und Alter-
tumskunde, n. s. 26 (1958), 43-70. My thanks to Florence Eliza Glaze for bringing this ms to my attention.
(20) Published in A Microfilm Corpus of Unpublished Inventories of Latin Manuscripts Through 16()0 AD, ed. F.
Edward CRANZ (Renaissance Society of America, 1987), Reel 26.

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22. Erfurt, Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek, MS Amplonian Q 15, ff. 62r-72v e') (ea. 1352-54,
Cremona or Erfurt by German scribe): (22 ) proto-ensemble (Erfurt Group). Heading: < Incipit
Trocula loquens de secretis mulierum. > (23 ) Cum auctor vniuersitatis de us in prima mundi origine ...
F. 68r: ... vt cepe, pastinace domestice et similibus. Cum [sic] de curis mulierum ... F. 69r: Vnde
contingit quod uocata fuit magistra cum quedam puella debuit incidi [Trotaj<< Trotula >>'s name
e
suppressed] ... F. 72r ('U'234): ... uel butiro in maio facto quod melius est inunge manus. 4 ) Ut mulier
sit plana et lenissima ... 'U''U'242, 243, 247, 248, 250, 249, 252, 253, 258, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 268,
270, and 271 ; then DCM 'U''U'21 9 and 218. Followed by new cap. Ad ornatum faciei. Recipe iari,
brionie ... ; ending f. 72v: ... cum aqua fabarum vel rosarum. Ad istud gallina alba [remainder
erased]. <Explicit Trotula loquens de secretis mulierum. > Just prior to the Trotula, on f. 61v, a
somewhat later hand has added tests for determining if a woman is a virgin, and aids for a laboring
woman. A test for pregnancy, several aids for hastening birth, and a conceptive are added in margin
of f. 67v; recipe Contra iumorem testiculorum added in margin of f. 69v; and one for pain of the
breast on f. 71 v. Excerpts from Gerard de Berry's commentary on Constantinus African us' Viaticum
were added in the margins of ff. 70r-71r and 72r-v by original scribe. The Trotula is followed
immediately by pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Secreta mulierum (ff. 73r-84r), with marginal commentary.
Other contents : some surgical and other minor medical works, but mostly various texts on natural
philosophy including Secretum secretorum (trans. Philip of Tripoli) and works of Thomas Aquinas,
Albertus Magnus, and Avicenna. Owner: cited as MS Phil. natur. 49 in Amplonius Ratinck's 1412
inventory. Described: Wilhelm Sebum, Beschreibendes Verzeichniss der amplonianischen Handschrif-
ten-Sammlung zu Erfuri ... m it einen Vorworie iiber Amplonius und die Geschichie seiner Sammlung
(Berlin: Weidmann, 1887), pp. 295-98; and Marie-Therese d'Alverny, << Avicenna Latinus VII>>,
Archives d'hisloire doctrinale et litteraire du moyen age 34 (1967), 315-343, at 326-29. Cited: T -K 2
(284).
23. - , - , MS Amplonian Q 204, ff. 78va-79vb; 95va-97va (s. xn ex.jxnr in., France): DOM
2; LSM3. F. 78va: < Incipit Hber de ornatu mulierum. > Vt ait Ypocras in pronosticis. Omnis qui
medicine ... F. 79vb ('U'305f) : ... Tunc ha beat mulier puluerem quem supra dictum f estl de roseis
siccis, nuce muscata, gariofilis. //F. 95va: < Incipjt liber de sintomatibus mulierum. > Cum auctor
vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi constitutione ... On f. 9/'yg the text ends with 1f114 (2 5 ) and 1f114a.
The latter then seems to be repeated (much of it is illegible) and it is then followed hy another recipe
that seems to be a rewriting of 1f'U'96-97 collapsed together, ending: ... et lac asina equaliter datur in
potu. Other contents: medical texts, including Archimattheus, Praclica; Bartholomaeus, comm. on
Johannitius; (26 ) Second Salernitan Anatomical Demonstration; Johannes de S. Paolo, De simpli-
cibus medicinis. Described: Sebum, op. cit., pp. 461-63. Cited: T-K 2 (284, 1613).
24. *Firenze, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 73, cod. 37, ff. 2r-41r (s. xrn 2 , Italy): interme-
diate ensemble. (Edges of right margin cut off during binding.) Incipit liber magistre Trotu[Ie]
cuius florem legit ex dictis prouidorum Galieni, Auicenn[ e ], et aliorum peritorum ueterum, in uti-
lit[atem] mulier[um] et pro deco[ra]tione ea[ rum], scilicet de fa[cie] et de uu(l]ua ear[um]. Cvm autor
uniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... (Historiated initial with picture of a woman; also
picture of a naked woman holding scrotum and penis in bottom margin.) F. 14v: ... ut pastinace et

(21) This is the latest foliation (the result of restoration of the ms in 1986) and differs by plus one from the
previous foliation.
(22) Two scribes alternating wrote all the texts on ff. 3r-9lr. Some of the texts (but not the Trotula) have
colophons indicating that they were written in Cremona in 1352 and in Erfurt in 1354.
(23) Running head on all subsequent pages ~ verso: <Lib er>, recto: < Trocuie >.
(24) tr235, which normally closes the proto-ensemble, was mistakenly embedded between trtr243 and 247 in the
DOM.
(25) Outer edge of page badly faded.
(26) See Paul Oskar KRISTELLER, << Bartholomaeus, Musandinus and Maurus of Salerno and Other Early Com-
mentators of the 'Articella,' with a Tentative List of Texts and Manuscripts,'' Italia Medioevale e Umanistica 19
(1976), 57-87, at p. 77.

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similia. <De curis mulierum. > [U)t de curis muluerum [sic] nobis fiat tradictio ... F. 17v: Vnde
contingit quod Truttula uocata fuit quasi magistra huius operis ... Ff. 21v-22v: capp. on redness of
the face from Richardus Anglicus, De ornatu, inserted between ~~177 and 179 (cf. mss 8 and 86,
where this material appears between ~'IT167 and 168): Rubor in facie quandoque fit de sanguine ...
manus infusas intingat et de compressione inliniatur facies. F. 28v: ... postea uero oua exinde manus
frica. <De depilatorium [sic].> Ht [sic] mulier suauis et plana inueinatum ( ?) ... F. 39v: ... mane
lauet cum aqua tepida. Followed by other material from Richardus Anglicus (cf. ms 8): Alcanna si
distemperetur ... F. 41r: ... Nota prius abluta facies et cum uolueris earn operari semper calefacias et
durat usi in secula seculorum. amen. Qui mihi furatur uel reddat uel moriatur. Explicit liber Troctule
de negotiis mulierum. Qui sit scribat semper cum domino uiuat. Viuat in celis Sinibaldus in omnia
[ms: me) felix. (A different hand repeats: Qui mihi furatur uel reddat uel moriatur.] Other contents:
collection of excerpts from Gal en, A vicenna, et al. of medicines for surgical uses (in other m ss, this
collection is attributed to Dino del Garbo or Mondino dei Liuzzi) ; other recipes for plasters,
unguents, etc. Owner: written by one Sinibaldus, some of whose own recipes are included; Bandini
suggests that he is a surgeon from the ancient Florentine family of the Sinibaldi. Described : A. M.
Bandini, Catalogus codicum latinorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (Florence: praesidibus
adnuentibus, 1776), vol. 3, coiL 68-71. Color photo of f. 2r in Maria Pasca, ed., La Scuola medica
salernitana: storia, immagini, manoscritti dall'Xl al XI I I secolo (Naples: Electa Napoli, 1988), p. 46.
Cited: T-K 2 (284).
25. Glasgow, Glasgow University Library, MS Hunter 341 (U.8.9.), pp. 1-70 (ea. 1270-1320, N.
France): standardized ensemble. P. 1: < Incipit liber de passionibus mulierum secundum Trotu-
lam. > Cum actor uniuersitatis de us in prima mundi constitutione ... P. 28 : ... ut sunt cepe, pasti-
nace domestice et similia. < Trotula minor.> P. 29 : Ut a nobis de curatione mulierum ... P. 35 :
Vnde contingit quod Trotula uocata fuit quasi magistra operis. P. 54: ... et cum eo manus fricabis.
Ut mulier suauissima fiat ... P. 70: ... et mane lauet cum aqua tepida. Explicit Trotula cum Troca.
Other contents: De conferentibus et nocentibus by Johannes Platearius the Younger. Many notes in
the margins and on blank pages in late (s. xv fxvi ?) hand. Described : J. Young & P. Henderson
Aitken, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of fhe._Hunterian Museum in the University of
Glasgow (Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1908), p. 277.
26. Hamburg, Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek, Cod. med. 798, pp. 23-79 (s. xv 1, Germany):
standardized ensemble. P. 23 : Cvm auctor vniuersitatis de us in prima mundi constitutione ... P.
45: ... ut cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. Cura. Ut a nobis de curatione mulierum ... P. 50: Vnde
contingit quod Trotula vocata fuit quasi magistra operis ... P. 65: ... et cum eo manus fricabis.
Incipit Trotula minor. Ut mulier suauissima uel planissima fiat ... P. 79: ... et mane lauet cum aqua
tepida. Explicit Trotula deo gratias. A later hand adds several additional recipes. Other contents :
originally an independent pamphlet. Later bound with (1) pseudo-Albertus Magnus, De secretis
mulierum (pp. 1-21); and (2) Middle Dutch compilation ( = Dut3c) of Trotula, pseudo-Albertus
Magnus, De secretis mulierum, and Albucasis (with illustrations of surgical instruments and other
apparatus, pp. 232-33, 242-43, 245-48). Described: handwritten catalogue at library; cf. Jansen-
Sieben, p. 343.
27. - , -,-£od. med. 835 (Quarto), ff. 30v-32v (s. XIV med., Germany): DOM2. Heading (later
hand): Incipit tractatus de ornatu mulierum bonus et vtilis. F. 30v: Ut ait Ypocras in libro quem de
pronosticorum scientia composuit ... F. 32v: ... ad uirum accedat et hec de ornatu mulierum dicta
sufficiant. Later hand: De ornatu. Followed immediately (ff. 32v-33r) by recipes for aiding coitus.
Other contents: medical texts, including several by J ohannes de Sancta Amando; Bernard of Gor-
don, De pulsu; Thesaurus pauperum ; Mesne, Liber albumasor; medical text in German; astronomical
chart with eclipses for sun and moon from 1330 to 1386. Described : Catalogus manuscriptorum
codicum Bibliothecae Uffenbachianae (Frankfurt, 1747), pp. 21-22. Cited: Iter, 3 :555a.
28. *Kassel, Stadt- und Landesbibliothek, 2° Ms. med. 7, ff. 224ra-238rb (ea. 1435, Germany):
revised ensemble. < Incipit liber de passionibus mulierum secundum Trotulam ex libris [rest

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illegible on film].> Cum actor vniuersitatis deus in prima origine mundi ... F. 229vb: ... ut cepe,
pastinace domestice et similia. De cognicione qualitum mulierum. Ut a nobis decorationem mulie-
rum compendiosa fiat ... F. 231ra: Vnde conuenit quod Trotula vocata femina quasi magistra operis
... F. 235ra: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. Vt mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ... F. 238rb: ... et
mane lauet cum aqua tepida. Explicit Trotula de passionibus mulierum. A later hand has added a
table of contents of the Trotula on f. 238rb. Other contents : Bernard of Gordon, Lilium medicinae;
Averroes, De tyriace; Giles of Corbeil, Liber de urinis; recipes in Latin and German. Diagram of
<<disease woman>> on flyleaf facing f. lr. Owner: Martin de Geismar (d. 1450), head of the chapter of
St.-Peters in Fritzlar (diocese of Mainz) and later a canon in Worms; (2 7 ) after his death, his books
were returned to the Collegiate church of St. Peter in Fritzlar. (28 ) Described: Hartmut Broszinski
(general editor), Die Handschri{ten der Murhardschen Bibliothek der Siadt Kassel und Landesbiblio-
thek, 3, 1: Dieter Hennig, Manuscripta medica (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1976), pp. 13-15.
29. *Kremsmiinster, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 72, ff. 159r-184r (s. xv med., Austria [perhaps at
Kremsmiinster]): standardized ensemble. Cum actor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi constitu-
tione ... F. 173r: ... ut sunt cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. Ut a nobis de curacione mulierum ...
F. 176r: Vnde contingit quod Trotula nota fuit quasi magister [sic] operis. F. 184r: ... et cum eo
manus fricabis. Ut mulier suauissirna fiat ... Ends with '11"243: ... donee sedetur ardor etc. Explicit
tractatus bonus qui intitulatur vetula de doloribus. Other contents: pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Secreta
mulierum (ff. 1r-50v) ; Albertus Magnus, De plantacione arborum; Secretum secretorum; aside from a
few medical notes, all the rest are alchemical tracts. Described : list of contents by HMML staff
(HMML Project no. 66).
30. *Laon, Bibliotheque Municipale, MS 417, ff. 27ra-38va (s. xiv in., Italy): standardized
ensemble. Cum actor vniuersitatis deus in prima rnondi [sic] constitutione ... F. 31 va: ... cepe,
pastinace domestice et similia. Cura. F. 31 vb: Et [sic] a nobis de curatione mulierum ... F. 32vb:
Vnde contingit quod Trotula uocata esset quasi magistra operis ... F. 35vb: ... et cum eo manus
fricabis. De pallicionibus mulierum. Ut mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ... F. 38va: ... et mane
lauet cum aqua tepida. Explicit Trotula. Qui ben~ uult fari, bene debet premeditari. Marginal
annotations and additions throughout. Other contents: list of prebends in Laon, held predominately
by Italian canons, between 1284 and 1314; (2 9 ) Isaac Israeli, ~De dietis particulaFibus; Richard us
Anglicus, Anatlwmia. Owners: an unidentified surgeon (there is a partially erased owner's mark: Iste
liber est ... [name] in ... [place] cyrurgici); (3°) from thence it probably passed directly to the Hotel-
Dieu de Laon. CS 1 ) Described: Cat. gen. (QS), 1:221.
31. *Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, MS Voss. Lat. Q. 99, ff. 209rb-211ra,
211va-212va (s. xin 1, France): DOM 2. Ut ait Ypocras in libro quem de pronosticorum scientia
composuit. Omnis qui medicine artis studio seu gloriam seu delectabilem amicorum copiam consequi
desiderat rationem suam prudencium. Quis add se munire studeat ne in singulis ad artem medendi
spectantibus inermis inueniatur. Stufa mulierum ut planissima et suauissima ... F. 211ra (1T283): ...
puluis boraginis cristalli uernicis ceruse pistando predicto modo adhibeatur. Rules for interpreting
urines then intervene, followed by miscellaneous recipes (ff. 211ra-va). Text recommences on f.
211 va wi!~ 1T304 (first half only, thru << uel alicuius panni rubei et addat predictis >>), then it repeats

(27) Ludwig DENECKE, <<Die Bibliothek des Fritzlarer Stiftsherrn Martin von Geismar (t 1450), >> Hessisches
Jahrbuch fur Landesgeschichte 28 (1978), 80-109. In his inventory, von Geismar describes the Trotula as dicta super
secreta mulierum (Denecke, p. 93).
(28) See ibid., and also H andschriflenerbe 1:266-68.
(29) See Suzanne MARTINET, Monlloon: Reflei fidele de la montagne et des environs de Laon de 1100 a 1300 (Laon:
Courrier de I' Aisne, 1972), pp. 93-94.
(30) My thanks to Bernbard Schnell for this information (personal communication, 11 December 1992).
(31) On this ms and the social setting which would explain the presence of copy of the Trotula in the library of a
chapter of cathedral canons, see Alain SAINT-DENIS, L'Hoiel-Dieu de Laon, 1150-1300: Institution hospiialiere et
societe aux XII' et XIII' siecles (Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1983), pp. 111-113,

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sequence of 1T280g, 280i, 280h, 281 and 283. A new recipe Ad clarificandum uisum intervenes, then:
normal DOM 2 sequence through 1T304 continues, breaking off: ... et habeat peciam unum [sic]
scarlate uel alicuius (f. 212va) panni rubei et addat predictis. Other contents: various medical texts,
including works of several Salernitan authors (Matthaeus Platearius, Johannes Platearius, Nicho-
e
laus, Archimatthaeus); Rhazes, De cauteriis; De passionibus mulierum B. 2 ) Ms in England by s. 16
at the latest. Described: K. A. de Meyier, Codices Vossiani Latini, 4 vols. ( = Codices manuscripti
Bibliothecae Universitatis Leidensis, XIII-XVI) (Leiden: Universitaire pers Leiden, 1973-1984), pars
II, pp. 223-27.
32. *Leipzig, Universitatsbibliothek, MS 1215, ff. 46ra-57va (olim 61ra-76va) (ea. 1225-1250,
e
Germany-E. France-Alsace): revised ensemble. 3 ) Title added by later hand: Trotula de passio-
nibus mulierum. Cum auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 50vb: ... ut sunt cepe,
pastinace et similia. Followed by four brief recipes Ad menstrua prouocanda et aborsum faciendum.
<Probatio [rest illegible on film].> Ad probandum igitur de partu si laboret calida uel frigida causa
(variant version of 1T132). F. 51vb: Vnde contigit quod domina Trotula inuitata fuit quasi magistra.
F. 55ra: ... et postea duo oua. Ut mulier levissima et planissima et suauissima ... F. 57va: ... mane
lauet cum aqua calida. Explicit Trotula. Amen. Additional recipe for amenorrhea added by later
hand in bottom margin of f. 46v. Other contents: trac~s on theoretical and practical medicine,
including Pomum ambre; Antidotarium Nicholai and commentary on it attributed to Platearius;
Giles of Corbeil, De urinis; Latin-Germany glossary. Cited: Spitzner. Description: handwritten note
cards by Hermann Leyser (s. 19).
33. London, British Library, MS Additional 18210, ff. 166r-175v (s. XIII ex.jxrv in., N.
Europe): standardized ensemble (incomplete). F. 166r: [C]um auctor vniuersitatis deus in mundi
constructione ... F. 170v: ... cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. Vt a nobis de curacione mulierum
... F. 171 v: Vnde conuenit quod Trotula uocata fuerit quasi magistra 'operis. F. 175v: ... et cum eo
manus fricabis. [U]t mulier suauissima et leuissima fiat ... Ends abruptly at bottom of f. 175v
('tf247): ... tali lixiua abluat mulier capud suum. Post ablutionem dimittat siccari per se [plus catch-
words:] et ut capilli. Following quire lost. Space was left for the rubrics and their text was written in
the margins, but they were never added. Four recipes were added in the margins of f. 170v beside
'tf1T129-30 on conception. Other contents: originally copied by same.Jland that wrote the surgical
texts of Roger (with additions of Roland) and Brunus (ff. 136-165); later bound witn-texts on
theology (including Robert Grosseteste's tract on the perpetual virginity of Mary), natural philoso-
phy (including William of Conches's Dragmaticon), and medical texts (including anonymous Salerni-
e
tan comm. on Johannitius). 4 ) Described: Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British
Museum in the Years 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1896), p. 88.
34. - , - , MS Harley 3407, ff. 1r-19r (new numeration) (s. xrv ex.jxv in., France): proto-
ensemble (Harley Group). Cum auctor vniuersitatis de us in prima mundi origine ... F. 11 v: ... ut
sunt sepe, pastinace domestice etc. F. 11 v: Ut de curis mulierum ... F. 14r: Vnde quia Trota uocata
fuit magistra cum quadam pellicula ... F. 19r ('tf223): ... et illo panno super indicto [sic] pone desuper
etc. Explicit Trotta. Annotated in the seventeenth century by a Devonshire priest, Samuel Knott (d.
1687), who left a notice on the text's authorities to later readers on f. 19r. CS 5 ) Other. contents:
fragments (in Latin and Middle English) of various medical texts, including works on urines, pro-
gnostication, and-the Schola Salernitana. Described: A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the
British Museum, 4 vols. (London, 1808-1812; repr. HildesheimjNew York: Georg Olm, 1973), 3:23.
Cited: Meyer.

(32) See n. 16 above.

(33) Ms 32 is actually a prototype of the revised ensemble; see «Development of the Trotula, >> section B.4.
(34) See Kristeller, << Bartholomaeus >> (n. 26 above), p. 77.
(35) Cyril Ernest WRIGHT, Pontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts
Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum,
1972), p. 211.

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35. -,-,MS Harley 3542, ff. 97v-100v [olim 91v-94v] (s. xv 1 , England): DOM3. Heading:
Incipit tractatus utilissimus de ornatu mulieris corporis et faciei cutis et capillorum et membrorum
ceterorum. Ut ait Ypocras in libro quem de scientia pronosticorum edidit ... F. 100v ('U'305g): ...
durat per duos annos. Followed immediately by a chapter on whitening ivory and several on various
herbs (cf. ms 47). Other contents: alchemical, medical and surgical treatises by Roger, Albert,
Raymond Lull, etc. Described: Harley cat., 3:39. Cited: T-K 2 (1613).
36. - , - , MS Royal 12 B.XII, ff. 88ra-95vb (ea. 1300, England): intermediate ensemble
(incomplete). < Incipit Trota de hornatu mulierum. > Cum autor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi
origine ... F. 93ra : ... ut cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. <De commotione qualitatum. > Et ut
de curis mulierum compendiosa fiat traditio ... F. 94rb: Vnde contingit quod cito vocata fuit quasi
magistra et quadam puella ... On f. 95va, the DCM text jumps from 'U'173 to 'U'241, ending: ... et cum
eo manus fricabis. 'U' Vt mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ... Text breaks off at bottom of f. 95vb
in 'U'246 ·= ... Postea accipe alcannam cum albumine oui et inungat omnia membra. Following two
leaves lost. Other contents : medical tracts, including sev-eral by Salernitan authors (most notably
e
Bartholomaeus's commentary on Johannitius). 6 ) Described: George F. Warner and Julius P. Gil-
son, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collections, 4 vols. (London:
British Museum, 1921), 2:13-15. Cited: T-K 2 (284, 525); Meyer.
37. -,-,MS Royal 12 E. VII, ff. 192r-207r ( = pp. 322-352) (s. xv 1 , England): proto-ensem-
hle (Erfurt Group). CS 7 ) Heading: Trotula. Cum auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ...
F. 199v ( = p. 337): ... ut cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. Ut de curis mulierum ... F. 201r ( = p.
340): Vnde contingit quod Trotula vocata fuit magistra ... F. 206r ( = p. 350; 'U'234): ... cum
auxungia porcis recenta et butiro maij et inunge manus. (38 ) Ut mulier sit plana et lenissima ...
'U''U'242, 243, 247, 248, 250, 249, 252, 253, 258, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 268, 270, and 271 ; then DCM
'U''U'219 and 218. Followed by new cap. Ad ornatum faciei. Recipe iari, brionie ... , ending f. 207r (= p.
352; damaged at outer margin): ... et cum ornare faciem voluerit distempera cum aqua [fabarum
uel] aqua rosarum. Ad id valet gallina alba etc. Explicit. Other contents: medical texts (some
Salernitan) and recipes in Latin and French. A s. xv--hand has added a table of contents on f. 2v,
listing as its seventh and final item: Trocula maior, et est de passionibus mulierum. Owner: Dr. John
Harryson (or Herryson) (fl. ea. 1443-73) of Cambridge University. (39 ) Described :-Warner and Gil-
son, op. cit., 2:51. Cited: Meyer.
38. - , - , MS Royal 12 E.XV, ff. 6r-10v (s. xn ex., E. France): proto-ensemble (lacking
LSM). De cvris mulierum compendiosa nobis fiat ... F. 7v: Vnde contingit quod tota [sic] uocata fuit
tamquam magistra. F. lOr ('U'235): ... et minget uelit nolit. Si uero corrupta non minget. ('U'261): Ad
capillos cadentes apes quam plures ... F. 10v ('U'269): ... et capite prius bene abluto inungas capud et
capillos, et [elonga]buntur [capilli nee] in capite remanebunt pediculi. DOM contains only 'U''U'261,
262, 265, 267, 268, 280e, 281, 290, 280h, 241, 304a, 205, 280a, 250, and 269. Other contents: tracts on
phlebotomy, cautery, De saporibus, Anatomia porci, colors; Secreta secretorum Aristotelis and Pto-
lemy, Centiloquium added later. Owner: Edward IV of England (r. 1461-1483) before his accession.
Described: Warner and Gilson, op. cit., 2:54-55. Cited: T-K 2 (370).
39. -=. _:__,
MS Sloane 420, ff. 77r-78r (s. XIV in., England): DOM 1 (selections). Heading
(added by Roger Marchall): De ornatu faciei et partium eius. Facies sic potest ornari ... F. 78r: ... et
signa in eis fuerit asperitas et ulceratio sanat. 'U''U'272-294 only. Other contents of this pamphlet (ff.

(36) The latter part of this
by the Augustinian priory
(37) Cf. mss 22 and 85.
(38) 'tf235, which normally
DOM.
(39) Talbot & Hammond,
manuscript (ff. 228-80, containing a metrical herbal attributed to Macer) was owned
of Newark. See MLGB, pp. xvn and 133.
closes the proto-ensemble, was mistakenly embedded between 'tf'tf243 and 247 in the
p. 154.

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· 59-84) : medical texts, many on urines and virtues of medicines; later bound with 17 other pam-
phlets, all with medical contents. Owner: Roger Marchall (ea. 1417-1477), who added a table of
contents on f. 1 v. ( 40 ) Described: Cat. Sloan., 1 :71-73. Cited: T-K 2 (549 and 707).
40. - , - , MS Sloane 434, ff. 11r-41 v (s. XIII in., France or England?): practical compen-
dium in which are inserted excerpts from DCM 1 and DOM 1. {41 ) Labiorum grossiciem
subtiliatur cum inunctione mellis ( 42 ) ••• hunc add as puluerem et unaquaque nocte. iii. A quire seems
to have been lost between ff. 16 and 17. The DCM material is scattered throughout the text: f.
12v-13r ('Jf'IT207a, 207b, 2071, 207n, 207m, 207f, 207g, 207h, 207o, 207c); f. 13v ('IT207h repeated); f.
30r ('Jf'Jf230-231); f. 31r ('Jf'Jf169, 152-153); f. 33v-34r ('Jf'Jf154-55, 223, 157-159). The DOM material,
on the other hand, appears as two continuous extracts: f. 14r-v ('Jf'Jf247-249, 251); and ff. 15r-16v
('IT'Jf242-246, 272-273, 275-276, 277a, 278-279, 280b, 280c, 280f, 282). Text later annotated by as. XIV
English hand. Other contents: tract on physiognomy (ff. lr-10v); Roger de Baron, Rogerina minor
(acephalous, ff. 42r-45r); glossary of herbs. Described: Cat. Sloan., 1 :76. ( 43 )
41. - , - , MS Sloane 783 B, ff. 165r-167r; 169r-174r (s. xv, England). TEM (incomplete);
DCM 2 (excerpts). F. 165r: [later hand: Pro passionibus matricis] Quoniam femine non habent
tantum calorem ... F. 167r ('Jf33): ... vel galla vel mustellus vel rosa vel folia querens. // F. 169r:
Incipit liber Trotule de secretis mulierum. Ut de curis mulierum ... F. 173r ('Jf151): Vnde contingit
quod quedam puellam propter huiusmodi ventositatem incidi quasi ex ruptura laborasset et admirati
sunt quam plurimum. Medicus fecit ... 'Jf152 follows, then 'IT151 is repeated (f. 173v), this time
reading: Vnde contingit quod domina Trota vocata fuit tamquam magistra. The repetition was
noted by the rubricator who did not rubricate the repeated chapter but instead crossed it out. F.
174r ('IT'Jf163 and 164 collapsed into one): ... vt tarn anus quam vulua caloris eius comfortetur.
Explicit. Other contents: gynecological recipes in Middle English and Latin (ff. 167r-168v); 4 ) e
numerous medical tracts on various aspects of practical medicine in Latin and English. Described :
Cat. Sloan. 1 :145-46. Cited: T -K 2 (1615); Meyer.
42. - , - , MS Sloane 1124, ff. 172ra-178rb (s. XIII in., NW France or S. England): proto-
ensemble (excerpts). Title: Incipiunt capitula Trotule. (These were never inserted, although two-
thirds of the column was left blank.) <Contra retention em lnenstruorum. > Ut de curis mulierum ...
F. 173rb: Vnde contingit quod Trota uocata fuit tanquam magistra:-BCM text is normal up through
'IT193 (f. 175v). Text then includes 'IT'IT196-199, 200-207, 145 (which had been omitted from its earlier
proper sequence), 214-215, 232, and 235, ending on f. 176ra: ... et minget uelit nolit. Si uero non,
non. Different hand then adds single recipe from DOM ('Jf265) : Vt capilli flaui sunt ... et in de caput
laua. LSM then begins in 'Jf19: Mulier si pauca menstrua ... F. 178rb: ... quia mulieres solent esse
uerecunda de ipso uisu postpartum. Includes 'Jf'Jf19-23, 29-58, 65-74, and 89-92. Additional cosmetic
and other recipes added on f. 178va-b by later hands. Other contents : treatises on medical theory
and practice, including Articella, and the Practica of Johannes Platearius. Described: handwritten
Sloane catalogue, pp. 32-34. Cited: T-K 2 (1615); Meyer.

(40) On Marchall, see n. 12 above. The DOM was the only text for which Marchall added his own rubric. My
thanks to Linda Ehrsam Voigts for sharing her notes on this ms with me.
(41) This compen_clium of cures, arranged in a standard a capite ad calcem order, seems to have been made largely
if not exclusively from Salernitan sources. Certain cures are attributed, for example, to Master Rogerius, Master
Urso, Master Petrus Musanda, Master <<G.» (Guglielmus ?), Master Ferrarius, and Copho.
{42) This opening recipe is actually ff299, which did not appear in the Trotula ensemble until the intermediate
stage. On f. 13v, there also appears ff305g which was added to the end of DOM 3 as a substitute for the offensive
chapter on genital hygiene. On f. 20r, what would later become ff241 in the transitional ensemble appears. The
appearance of these three recipes here in ms 40 shows that eacl:j had a independent life prior to their association
with the Trotula texts.
(43) My thanks to Joan Cadden for bringing this important ms to my attention. It was cited in T-K 2 (807,
<< Labiarum [sic] ... >>) but not further identified. My thanks, too, to Dr. Michelle Brown of the British Library for
information about this ms.
(44) For further details, see Monica H. GREEN,<< Obstetrical and Gynecological Texts in Middle English,>> Studies
in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992), 53-88, at p. 83.

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43. ~,~,MS Sloane 1610, ff. 186ra-187rc (s. XIV, northern Europe): e")
LSM2 (with cross-
contamination from ensemble) plus excerpt from DCM. Cvm auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima
mundi origine ... et temperata cum vino propicietur super omnia valet in hoc casu. Valet etiam ad
alia plura. Et bee [de] sinthomatibus mulierum ad presens sufficiant. Followed immediately (as in ms
44) by an additional chapter: Impedimentum concepcionis multis modis fit ... Post tertium diem eat
ad balnea et post coeat. Expertum est. Then by 'tf141 from DCM: Sunt quedam mulieres quibus non
congenerit carnale commercium ... non est pessarium faciendum ubi redditur [sic] matrix. Concludes
with a new cap. on aqua ardens. Both the LSM and the DCM fragment were probably copied from
ms 44, though collations were also made from a copy of the ensemble. Other contents: Trotula added
by hand of later annotator to s. xrv in. collection containing (inter alia) Articella, Anatomia Galieni,
Viaticum, works of Isaac Judeus, and Practica puerorum (inc.: Primo videndum est ut in lac ... ) ;
same hand that copied LSM also added copious notes to Isaac De febribus and De urinis (other texts
in codex annotated by several different, unrelated hands). Described: handwritten Sloane catalogue,
4:345-48.
44. ~,~,MS Sloane 1615, ff. 83va-87ra; 88ra-90vb (ea. 1220-40, S. France): DCM2; LSM2.
F. 83va, tiny heading added by slightly later hand: Liber Trotile minoris. Heading in margin (by
same hand as main text) : De disponentibus ad concepcionem. De curis mulierum compendiosa nobis
... F. 84rb: Vnde contingebat quod Trota uocata fuit quasi magistra ... F. 87ra ('tf218): ... iusquiami
cadunt similiter siriones manuum. Two recipes then added : one Contra gutiam roseam and one on
fishbone in throat. A few words are glossed interlinearly in the same hand:<< spatulam .i. glagoel >>(f.
85rb); « siriones .i. vermes>> (f. 87ra, twice);<< fecis cupri .i. coupe rose>> (ibid.). F. 87v blank. F. 88ra,
heading in margin added by later hand: Trotula minor [sic]. Cvm auctor uniuersitatis dens in prima
mundi constitione [sic] ... F. 90vb: ... cum uino propinetur super omnia ualet in hoc casu. Valet
etiam ad alia plurima et bee de sinthomatibus mulierum SV,FFICIANT. Then added as an adden-
dum: Impedimentum conceptionis multis modis fit ... Post tercium diem eat ad balnea et post coeat.
Expertum est. Other contents: medical treatises, including Constantinus African us, Viaticum; Bar-
tholomaeus, Practica; Roger, Chirurgia; Richard us Anglicus, De medicinis repressivis. Owner: the
final flyleaf has the ownership rnark of the D01ninican convent of Warwick, Thomas Norman prior
e
(1539 at the latest) but this may have no connection~ with the rest of the manuscript. 6 ) Described:
handwritten Sloane catalogue, 4 :358-60. Cited: Meyer. -· ·
45. ~, ~, MS Sloane 3550, ff. 29r-32v (ea. 1300, England): DOM 2 (lacking preface). <De
ornatu mulierum. > Ut mulier suauissima et planissima videatur. Et sine pilis ... F. 32v: ... Et sic
bene ornata ad virum secure [sic] accedat. Et hec de ornatu mulierum dicta sufficiant. <Explicit
lib er de ornatu mulierum. > Added by different hand : Caro leonis medicinalis et inter omnia anima-
Iia Ieo est animal magis colericum et ideo feruitate sue colere magis ferum. Other contents : various
medical tracts on prognostication, urines, surgery, phlebotomy, including an English-Latin glossary
of herbs, and three Anglo-Norman versions of the pseudepigraphic letter of Hippocrates to Caesar.
Cited: T-K2 (1620). Described: handwritten Sloane cEtalogue; Hunt, Popular Medicine, pp. 297-99.
46. ~, ~, MS Sloane 3848, ff. 6r-8v (s. xvn, England): DOM3 (lacks preface). <De ornatu
faciei incipit tractatus. > Ut mulier suauissima et planissima et sine pilis appareat ... F. 8v ('tf305g):
... quia tale emplastrum durat per .ij. ann os. Other contents: various short medical tracts (including
several on properties of plants and animals); medical receipts in English and Latin; astrological and
divinatory tracts, including a Liber septem stellarum attributed to Paracelsus and << A discourse of the
history and craft of Masonry by Edward Sankey, 16 Oct. 1646. >> Described: handwritten Sloane
catalogue. Cited: T-K 2 (1621).
47. *~, University College, MS Lat. 12, ff. 16v-19v (s. xv in., England): DOM 3. [U]t ait
Ypocras in libro quem de scientia pronosticorum edidit ... F. 19v (U305g): ... durat per duos annos.

(45) My thanks to Linda Voigts for her assessment of the codex's origin (personal communication).
(46) MLGB, p. 194.

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Followed immediately by a chapter on whitening ivory and several on various herbs; ends abruptly
in cap. on borago: ... cum aqua cocta et cum melle aut; rest of folio blank. Cf. ms 35, which ends with
same additions. Other contents (of 3rd MS): medical treatises in Latin (including Passiones puero-
rum, inc. : Passiones puerorum adhuc in cunabulis), with recipes in Latin, French and English ;
includes regimens by John Landrene (d. 1409), fellow of Exeter College (1344) and Oriel College
(1358). Described: Dorothy K. Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of
University College (London, 1935), pp. 11-13; KerfPiper, 1:341-44.
48. - , Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, MS 517, Miscellanea Alchemica XII
(olim Phillipps 2946), ff. 129v-134r (s. xv ex., probably Flanders): proto-ensemble (extracts). Hie
incipit Trotula maior de secretis mulierum. Cum auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi constitu-
tione ... F. 133v: ... vt cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. <De fluxu sanguinis post partum
nimio.> (Begins with 'lf147): Sunt quedam que postpartum ... F. 134r ('lf196): ... in aqua vbi cocta
sit malua per unum tempus et liberabitur. Et cetera. Consists of extracts from LSM ('lf'lf1-14, 16-19,
25, 29, 43-44, 74-79, 82-87, 89-92, 115-118, 122, 121, 129-131) and DCM ('ITU147-148, 168, 170, 169,
190, 192-193, 196). An earlier ms of this same abbreviated version served as the source text for Eng4,
which is a verbatim translation. Other contents (in Latin and Dutch) : tracts on properties of things,
alchemy, magical receipts and incantations. Owners: s. xv hands on f. 1r: <<Sum Joannes alphensis
et amicorum >>; << Jan meesten ende sinen. •> Described: S. A. J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manu-
scripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, vol. 1: Mss. Written
Before 1650 A .D. (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1 962), pp. 359-62; Jansen-Sieben,
pp. 400-1.
49. - , - , MS 544, Miscellanea Medica XVIII, pp. 65a-72b, 63a-64b, 75a-84a (s. xrv in.,
France): intermediate ensemble. P. 65a: Picture of woman holding orb, apparently meant as
e
author portrait of << Trotula. >> 7 ) <Lib er Trotile. > Pp. 65a-b : table of ~on tents of LSM (listing 17
capp.). Cum auctor uniuersitatis deus in prima origine mundi ... [The text continues to p. 72b and
then from p. 63a top. 64b, as pp. 63/64, 73j74 are wrongly bound.] P. 64b: ... ut sepa [sic], pastinate
domestice et similia. < Trotile minor.> Ut de curis mulierum ... [The text then jumps from p. 64b to
p. 75a.] P. 76a-b: Vnde contingit quod Trotula uocata fuit tanquam magistra operis. P. 80a: ...
postea duo oua et exinde manus frica. Ut mulier suauissima et planissima ... P. 84a ('lf309) : ... et boli
armenici superaspergat et stringet. <Explicit liber Trotile. > Text is sO!newhat condensed in places.
Omitted are 'lf'IT98, 173a, 183, 197-198, 204, 207-233, 235, 237-240, 259, 267, 271, 277, 282-293~ 296a-
b, 306, 309a to end. Text has other peculiar features, such as the inclusion of 'lf290a which is absent
from all other copies of the intermediate ensemble. A s. xvr hand has added an index to the Trotula
on f. nr-v; this same hand also added numerous marginal annotations to the Trotula text itself.
Other contents : treatises on practical medicine and surgery (some Salernitan), with added recipes in
French. Described: Moorat, pp. 403-7.
50. -,-,MS 548, Miscellanea Medica XXII, ff. 140r-145v (s. xv med., Germany or Flanders):
standardized ensemble (selections). Cum auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi constitucione
... F. 145r: ... ut sunt cepe, pastinace et similia. Entire text of LSM, less 'lf'lf65-71 (on uterine lesions
and ulcers). Followed by 'lf'lf149, 150, 152, 153, and 173 from the DCM (on ano-vaginal fistula,
uterine prolapse caused by excessive size of the male member, hemorrhoids, and scabies of the hips):
Sunt quedam mulieres quibus in parturiendo male accidit et hoc propter defectum astancium ... F.
145v: ... in ore tenere-ne dentes ledantur a viuo argento quod fluit circumquaque. Followed imme-
diately (with no rubrication to indicate a new text) by a tract De coytu. (ff. 145v-150v): De coytu .5.
puncti nostri ... et illi habent effectum virilitatis, scilicet barbam assequuntur, etc. Est finis deo
laudes et de gloria nimis. This text discusses the nature of coitus and diseases of the reproductive
organs in general terms, constantly comparing men and women. Other contents: treatises on medi-
cal theory and practice. Owner: owned by Henricus Scholer in 1598. Described : Moorat, pp. 412-14.

(47) Reproduced in Peter Murray JoNits, Medieval Medical Miniatures (London: British Library, in association
with the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1984), p. 34.

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51. ~,-,MS 549, Miscellanea Medica XXIII, ff. 101rb-125rb (an. 1471, Germany): interme-
diate ensemble. < Incipit Trotula maior et minor de Sinthomatibus virorum et mulierum. > Cum
auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 110rb: ... vt cepe, pastinace. < Incipit minor
Trotula de Sinthomatibus. > Ut de curis mulierum ... F. 112va: Unde contigit quod Trotula uocata
fuit tamquam magistra operis ... F. 118vb: ... et exinde manus frica. <De depilatione pectoris.> Ut
mulier suauissima et planissima ... F. 125rb: ... et mane lauet cum aqua tepida. Explicit Trotula
maior et minor Ipocratis de omnibus sinthomatibus mulierum et virorum, secretis et pudendis que
ipse vel ipsi verecundantur medicis revelare etc. Other contents : treatises on medical practice and
theory, with recipes and notes in German. Described: Moorat, pp. 414-17.
52. ~, ~, MS 550, Miscellanea Medica XXIV, ff. 22lr-228r (s. xv 2 , England): DCM 2
(excerpts, with additional material). Heading in top margin: <De secretis mulierum. > <I> ncipit
liber Trotule de secretis mulierum. [In the right margin, a later hand has added: Trotulis minor.] Vt
de curis mulierum compendiosa a nobis fiat tradicio ... On ff. 225v-226r, 'IT151 has been abbreviated;
the reference to Trota/<< Trotula >> is gone. F. 228r ('IT195): ... et ita dicipitur [sic] sponsus propter
sanguinis effusionem. Includes 'IT'IT132-137, 139-140, 228, 213, then a series of new recipes for provok-
ing the menses and aiding conception (ff. 222r-223v); 'IT'IT141-146, with an insertion into the last on
the nature of the afterbirth and the reasons for its retention (f. 224v); 'IT'IT147-153, 163-164, 160-162,
165-168, (48 ) then a new recipe for aposteme of the uterus, closing with 'IT'IT189-190 and 194-195. This
pattern of abbreviating and adding new material is characteristic of other texts in the ms. Other
contents: general medical tracts, including such topics as pestilence and compound medicines; a
praclica and miscellaneous notes of an anonymous London physician. Owner? : at the bottom of an
index at the end of the volume is the inscription << FF[rater] W. ffrothyngham hanc contrafecit
transcriptionem. >> Described: Moorat, pp. 417-19.
53. *~,Westminster Abbey, MS 34/I, ff. lra-vb (s. XIII ex., probably England): intermediate
ensemble (fragment). < Incipit liber de curis egritudinum mulierum >, followed in faded brown
ink: et de earum ornatus. C[um auctor vniuersitatis deus in] prima mundi consti-
tucione ... F. 1vb ('IT1 9): ... Mulier que si pauca et cum dolo re emitat. A bifolium, prol}ably from a
binding; formerly ff. 43 and 50 (medieval foliation) of a manuscript. Other contents: end of Practica
puerarum, table of herbs. Description: KerJPiper, 1:401.
54. *Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 1921 (alim L. 14), ff. 161ra-170rb (s. XIII ex.jx1v 1 , south-
ern Europe): revised ensemble. < Incipit liber Trotule [dna expunged].> Cum auctor humani
generis deus in prima origine ... F. 164vb: ... ut cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. Explicit primus
liber Trotule. Et incipit secundus. Ut a nobis de curatione mulierum ... F. 165va: Vnde accidit quod
Trotula uocata fuit quasi magistra operis ... F. 168ra: ... et cum hoc manus fricabis. <Ut mulier sine
pilis maneat. > Ut mulier suauissima et planissima man eat ... F. 170rb: ... et mane lauet cum aqua
tepida. Explicit Trotula. Explicit Trotula mulierum. Deo gracias. A few recipes added in margins by
later hands. Other contents: medical texts, including Constantinus Africanus, Viaticum, and several
by Salernitan authors. Described: R. Paz and J. L6pez de Toro, eds., Inventaria general de Manu-
scritas de la Biblioteca Nacional, 12 vols. (Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Direcci6n General dellibro
y bibliot~cas, 1953-1988), 5:341-42.
55. Manchester, Chetham's Library, MS 11380 (Mun. A.4.91), ff. 181v-183v (s. xm ex.fxrv in.,
France): DOM 3. F. 181v: < Incipit summus tractatus de ornatu mulierum. > Vt ait Ypocras in
Iibra quem de sciencia pronosticorum edidit ... F. 183v: ... et decenter conseruent. <Explicit trac-
tatus necessarius de supplecione pulcritudinis mulierum. > Other contents: many medical and a few
natural philosophical tracts. Described: KerjPiper, 3:368-73.

(48) 11"167 has the added gloss indicating that solis adustio is called << haniles >> (or hamles ?) in French, << chyn-
nyngs" in English (f. 227r).

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56. *Montpellier, Faculte de Medecine, MS 317, ff. 1ra-7rb (ea. 1300, S. France): revised
ensemble. Incipit liber de passionibus mulierum secundum Trotulam. Cum actor uniuersitatis deus
in prima origine mundi ... F. 3va: ... ut cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. <De cognitione
qualitatum mulierum. > Et [sic] a nobis de curatione mulierum ... F. 4ra: Vnde contingit quod
Trotula uocata fuit quasi magistra operis. F. 5vb: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. <Ad remouendum
pilos. > Ut mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ... F. 7rb: ... et mane lauet cum aqua tepida.
Explicit Trotula. Other contents (in same hand as Trotula) : Secretum secretorum Aristotelis; (in later
hand) excerpts from book of Johannes on health in Alexandria, and Giles of Corbeil, De urinis.
Owner: an owner's mark in a s. xv hand on the front flyleaf reads : {< Robertus comes artium et
medicine magister est huius libelli verus dominus >); I have not been able to identify this Robert
e
further. Acquired by the abbey of Clairvaux at some point prior to ea. 1521. 9 ) Described: Cat. gen.
(QS) 1 :415-6. Cited: Spitzner.
57. *Munchen, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 381, ff. 1ra-5ra (s. xrrr med., Germany):
proto-ensemble (fragment). 1ra-va have unidentified gynecological and cosmetic recipes. Begins
abruptly on f. 1 va with DCM 'ff167: [U]ngentum satis ualens. contra adustionem sol et ... F. 4ra
('lf235): ... et minget uelit nolit. Aliud ut mulier planissima fiat et suauissima ... DOM section
includes 'ff'IT242, 243, 258, 263, 264, 268, 270, 271. F. 4rb: ... et iube [sic] capillos fricari inter manus,
sirones potenter educit. Followed immediately by Richard us Anglicus, De ornatu (inc. Decor faciei et
uetustas), breaking off abruptly on f. 5ra (line 3): ... et faciem illinias. 'ff Dencium non minor debet
esse decor, quoniam iuuant et ideo non minor ordinatur quam faciei. Rest of page blank. A medieval
owner began a table of contents on the front paste-down, which began : Primo Trotula antiqua et
etiam minor de secretis mulierum et de passionibus earum et remediis innatis secundum medicine
tradicionem. Other contents: tracts on antidotes, medicines, diseases of the eye. Bound with 13th-
century Italian copy of Constantinus Africanus, Pantegni. Owners: Dr. Hermann Schedel
(1410-1485), and later his cousin Hartmann Schedel (1440-1516) of Nurnberg. eo) Described : Cata-
logus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae Monacensis, editio altera emendatior, vol. Ill, part
1 : Codices latinos, 1/1:101.
58. *-, - , Clm 444, ff. 208rb-210rb (s. xrv ex., S. G~many): DOM3 (with some omissions
and rearrangement of text). Sicut ait Ypocras in libro quem de sciemia pronosticoruiiL-edidit ... F.
210rb: ... et decenter conseruent etc. Explicit liber de ornatu mulierum secundum totum corpus.
Other contents: pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Secreta mulierum (ff. 185ra-193vb); tracts on practical
medicine and natural philosophy, including works of the owner, Hermann Schedel. Owners: Drs.
Hermann Schedel and Hartmanri Schedel of Nurnberg (see ms 57 above). Described: CLM cat.,
1/1 :122-23. Cited: T-K 2 (1613); A. Schultz, << Toiletten-Anweisungen des 14. Jahrhunderts >>, Anzei-
ger fiir Kunde der deutschen Vorzeit: Organ des Germanischen Museums n.s. 24 (1877), coli. 186-90.
59. *-, -, Clm 570, ff. 57r-66r (s. xrv 1 , Germany): LSM 3; DOM2. F. 57r: [margin (later
glossator's hand): Incipit Trotula.] Cum auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi constitucione ... F.
62v: ... Item in uentre yrundinis primogeniti invenitur lapis tvus lotura idem valet. Valent etiam
alia plurima hie de sintomatibus mulierum dicta sufficiant. Ut ait Ypocras in principio pronostico-
e
rum 1 ) ... Ff. 65v-66r: ... et sic ornata facie toto corpore ad uirum accedat. Then two additional

(49) Andre VERNET, in association with Jean-Fraw:;ois GENEST (eds.), La bibliolhe.que de l'abbaye de Clairvaux du
XII' au xv I l l ' siecle., t. 1 : Catalogues et repertoires (Paris: Editions du C.N .R.S., 1979), p. 565.
(50) On the Schedels, both of whom studied medicine in Padua, see Richard STAUBER, Die Schedelsche Bibliothek:
Ein Beitrag zur Geschichle der Ausbreitung der ilalienischen Renaissance, des deutschen Humanismus und der medizi-
nischen Lileralur, Studien und Darstellungen aus dem Gebiete der Geschichte, VI, 2 and 3 (Freiburg im Breisgau,
1908); and Paul RuF (ed.), Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz vol. Ill, part 3 (1939;
repr. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1969), pp. 798~844; see p. 822, l. 11 for Clm 381. On Herma~n Schedel, see also
Bernhard ScHNELL's article in VL 8:621-25~; and idem,<< Arzt und Literat: Zum Anteil der Arzte am spatmittel-
alterlichen Literaturbetrieb, >> Sudhoffs Archiv 75, no. 1 (1991), 44-57.
(51) For this same reading, see mss 64 (DOM fragment) and 96.

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recipes, the first being 'JT309 and the second on how to make a woman hate a man, ending : ... da ei in
potu et cessabit voluntas. Explicit. Amen. LSM heavily glossed, often from comparison with another
exemplar. Other contents: several treatises on the stone; Arnald of Villanova, Regimen sanitatis ad
regem Aragonum; medical consilia. Owner: Dr. Hartmann Schedel of Nurnberg (see ms 57 above).
Described: CLM cat., 1/1:157. Cited: T-K 2 (1613); Spitzner.
60. *~, ~, Clm 660, ff. 1r-40r (s. xv 1 , Germany?): revised ensemble. Text badly disorder-
e
. ed. 2 ) Heading: Jesus Maris. De passionibus mulierum secundum Trotulam. In the bottom margin,
a different hand has added the heading of the meretrices Group: Incipit liber de sinthomatibus, id est,
passionibus mulierum qui dicitur Trotula mulierum, quem due meretrices, scilicet mater et filia sua,
ediderunt. Nam cum diuersas circuebant terras multum experiebantur ut hie patet. Inc.: Cum actor
vniuersitatis deus in prima origine mundi ... F. 17r: ... ut sepe, pastinaca domestice et similia. Ut a
nobis de curatione mulierum ... F. 5r: Vnde contingit quod Trotula vocata fuit quasi magistra operis
... F. 32v: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. Vt mulier suauissima fiat ... F. 40r: ... et mane lauet cum
aqua tepida. Explicit Trotula. Deo gracias. Additional remedies added in the margins on several
pages. Other contents: notes and excerpts collected by Hermann Schedel in 1441/42 from medical
lectures of Dr. Cristoforo Barzizza da Bergamo (d. 1445), professor of medicine at Padua; 3 ) De e
iudiciis astrorum. Owners: Drs. Hermann Schedel and Hartmann Schedel of Nurnberg (see ms 57
e
above). 4 ) Described: CLM cat., 1/1:171. Cited: Spitzner.
61. *~, ~, Clm 3875, ff. 194ra-204rb (an. 1478-1479, Klattau): standardized ensemble (rear-
rangement of gynecological, obstetrical, and pediatric capp. from LSM and DCM). Heading: Edicio
magistri Adalberti. < Incipit Trotula de secretis mulierum. > Cum auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima
mundi constitutione ... A table of contents, listing 40 ea pp., es) follows the prologue on f. 1 94va-b. F.
201rb: ... ut sunt cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. <De sterilitate ex parte mulieris. > Ut nobis
de curatione mulierum ... F. 204rb ('IT127): Salsum aut lac aut male redolens infanti nutrimentum
non est conueniens. Etcetera. Est finitus huius Trocule. Ani1o domini m cccc 78° in die Stephani per
Johannem Rudolt de Glatouia [i.e., Klattau in Bohemia] practio ~ ( ?) in medicina. Deo gracias. A
few marginal annotations. Other contents : Thesaurus pauperum (in verse, ff. 204va-206va); pseudo-
Albertus Magnus, Secreta mulierum (ff. 206va-213va); notes on the signs of conception (ff.
216r-218v); the rest are mostly tracts on prognostication and urines. Scribe: Jol)annes Rudolt.
Owner: Cathedral of Augsburg. Described: CLM cat., 112~'150. Cited: Spitzner.
62. *~, ~, Clm 8742, ff. 53v-60r (s. XIII ex.fxiv in., Germany): proto-ensemble. < Incipit
genecia de passionibus mulierum. > Cum auctor uniuersitatis de us in prima mundi constitutione ...
DCM 'JT'JT132-134 and 142-144 inserted after LSM 'JT75. F. 58v ('JT127): ... quodsi uenter infantis
solutus fuerit nutrici stiptica dentur. F. 59r: < Recapitulatio predictorum breuis. > Ut autem ea que
predicta sunt breui compendia transcurramus sciendum est quod quedam sunt que dum ad tempus
menstruorum euenint aut nulla habent aut modica ... Then follow selected recipes from DCM
(1T'JT135-137, 139, 145-150, 140-141, 160-161, 163-164, 151, 166, 170, 168, 152-155, 157-159, 171-172,
200, 202-203, 190, 187), some of which are much abbreviated. F. 59v: Vnde contigit quod domina
Trota uocata fuit tamquam magistra. F. 60r ('JT187): ... uel cum eadem liquore os suum lauet et
gargarizet. No material from DOM. Ff. 50-79 once formed a separate manuscript, paged 1-60. Other
contents: various tracts on theoretical and practical medicine, including works of Johannes de St.
Amand, Constantinus African us, A vicenna, Arnald of Villanova, and Giles of Corbeil. Owner: owned
by male Franciscans of St. Jacob in Munich. (56 ) Described: CLM cat., 4/1:50-51.

(52) The correct order is: ff. 1r-4v (11'11'1-30); 2Ir-v (11''11'30-34); 23v-26r ('11''11'34-60); 21v-23v ('11''11'60-74); 28r-v
('11''11'74-84); 13r-14r ('11''11'84-95); 26r-28r ('11'11'95-123); 14r-20v (11''11'123-150); 5r-12v ('11''11'150-212); 29r-40r
('11''11'213-312).
(53) On Barzizza, see Tiziana PESENTI, Pro{essori e promotori di medicina nello studio di Padova dal 1405 al 1509:
Repertorio bio-bibliogra{ico (Padua: Edizioni Lint, 1984), p. 42ff.
(54) This codex appears in Hartmann Schedel's catalogue under the heading: Collectum a Cristoforo de Pergamo
Padue et trotula etc. See Ruf, op. cif., p. 826, l. 17.
(55) Although numbered through 42, there is no cap. 28 or 29.
(56) Handschri{ienerbe 2:583-4.

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63. *Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS VIII D. 59, ff. 2lr-36v (s. xm ex., Italy): intermediate
ensemble. F. 21r: Cum auctor uniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 29v: ... ut pastinace
et similia. <Cum fuerit uitio [sic] mulieris. Cura. > Ut de curis mulierum ... F. 31r: Vnde contingit
quod contingit quod [sic] Trotula uocata fuit tamquam magistra operis cum quedam puella debuit
incidi propter uentositatem quia ex ruptura fuit quam plurimum. Text ends abruptly in 11'240 on
f. 36v: ... dentes dealbat, herba etiam trita et apposita. Remaining leaves lost. Other contents:
Rhazes, Practica puerorum ; medical tract ; later bound with verses in hexameters and elegiacs on
mythology, grammar, etc. Owner: the name of Marianus Jonathan de Anglono is inscribed at the top
of f. lr. Described: Inveniario generale di tutti i codici manoscritti della Biblioieca Nazionale, hand-
written inventory, f. 347r. Cited: De Renzi, Coil. Sal. 4:585-586 (cf. Meyer); Iter 1:425.
64. New York, New York Academy of Medicine, MS SAFE, ff. 77ra-82ra; 86va-b (s. XIII med.,
France [with some semblances of English decoration]): transitional ensemble (Group A, without
LSM); DOM (fragment, probably of 2nd redaction). < Incipit liber Trotule sanatricis Salerni.tane
de curis mulierum. > Ut de curis mulierum ... F. 77va: Vnde contingit quod Trota uocata fuit
tanquam magistra ... Due to the loss of f. 78, the text breaks off at the bottom of f. 77vb in 11'159; it
recommences on f. 79ra in the middle of 11'202. F. 79va (11'235): ... Si sit corrupta, minget uelit nolit.
Si uero non, non. < Psilotrum ad planandam cutem. > Sicut ait Ypocras in pronosticis. Omnis qui
medicine artis studio seu gloriam seu delectabilem amicorum copiam habere desiderat rationem sue
regule prudentum muniat ne singulis ad artem pertinentibus inermis uideatur. Ut ergo mulier planis-
sima et suauissima ... F. 82ra (ends with Unguentum Petri Viviani, 'U'309f): ... et hoc durabit per
septimanam. Probatum est. <Explicit.> I/ F. 86va-b: Ut ait Ypocras in principio pronostico-
e
rum. 7 ) Omnis qui medicine artis studio seu gloriam seu delectabilem amicorum copiam consequi
desiderat rationem suam prudentium [sic] regulis am. After copying these few lines, the scribe
apparently noticed that this text duplicated the DOM in the ensemble'; he erased the initial << U >>,
marked the whole passage vacal, and then moved on to another tract. Other contents : surgical texts
(including Abulcasis, Roger Frugardi and Chirurgia equorum) ; unique copy of Caelius Aurelianus,
Gynaecia conflated with Muscio, Gynaecia; ( 58 ) De passionibus mulierum A; (5 9 ) Non omnes qui-
dem; (60) Gynaecia Cleopatrae; ('31 ) Liber minor de coitu; (B 2 ) De-spermate; (63 ) and Muscio, Gynaq;ia
(incomplete). (64) Owner: possibly the ms described by Richard de Fotirnival (d. ea. 1260) in his
Biblionomia; (65 ) listed in late 15th-cent. catalogue of Benedictine abbey of St.· Augustine;~ canter-

(57) Cf. mss 59 and 96 for the same reading.

(58) On Caelius, see the edition by Drabkin & Drabkin (cited below); and Hanson & Green, esp. pp. 970-81,
1042-61, and 1072.
(59) The Dpm A ,is a very simple collection of recipes; although printed in the sixteenth century among the
works of Galen and Constantinus Africanus, there is no modern edition. See Green, Genecia.
(60) The Non omnes quidem (the text's incipit) is an abbreviated adaptation of Muscio's Gynaecia and other
sources, made perhaps in the eleventh century; it remains unedited. See Hanson & Green, pp. 1054-55 and 1074.
(61) See n. 16 above.
(62) Edited Enrique Montero CARTELLE, Lib er minor de coitu: Tratado menor de andrologia anonimo salernitano.
Edicion critica, traduccion y, notas (Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 1987).
(63) V. Tavone PAsSALACQUA, Microtegni seu de spermaie. Traduzione e commento, Corpus scriptorum medicorum
infimae latinitatis et-prioris medii aevi, ed. Adalberto Pazzini, I, Rome 1958, pp. 227-306. See also Charles S. F.
BuRNETT, <<The Chapter on the Spirits in the Pantegni of Constantine the African, >> in Constantine the African
and 'All ibn al-'Abbiis al-Magiisf: The 'Pantegni' and Related Texis, ed. Charles BuRNETT and Danielle JACQUART
(Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994), pp. 99-120.
(64) Valentin RosE, ed., Sorani Gynaeciorum vetus iranslatio latina (Leipzig: Teubner, 1882); Rino RADICCHI, ed.
and trans., La Gynaecia di Muscione: Manuale per le ostetriche e le mamme del V I secolo d.C. Traduzione italiane e
note con testa latino tratto dai codici e ampio glossario (Pisa : Giardini, 1970). See also Hanson & Green, pp. 1023-24,
1029-31, 1050-61, and 1072-74.
(65) See Leopold DELISLE, Le cabinet des manuscrits de la Bibliotheque Nationale, 3 vols. (Paris: Imprimerie
Nationale, 1874), 2:535, Biblionomia item 161. Richard RousE << Caelius Aurelianus, >> in L. D. REYNOLDS, ed.,
Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics [Oxford: Clarendon, 1983], pp. 32-35) argues that there
can be no doubt that the New York ms is Fournival's copy. There are, however, some discrepancies between the
manuscript and Fournival's description, the most notable being the absence of the illustrations from Muscio's

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bury (cat. no. 1274). ( 66 ) Described: Miriam and Israel Drabkin, eds., Caelius A urelianus, Gynaecia:
Fragments of a Latin Version of Soranus' Gynaecia from a Thirteenth Century Manuscript, Supple-
ments to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 13 (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press,
1951), pp. V-VI.
65. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 399, ff. 21r-26r; 63ra-b (s. x1v 1, England): proto-
ensemble (LSM only); DOM (fragment). Cum auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ...
F. 26r: ... ut cepe, pastinata domestica et similibus. Explicit Trotula senior Deo gratias. Followed
immediately by recipe for breath-freshener from DOM (1T305) : Item si mulier pura de folio lauri ...
malus uero retardabitur. Explicit. Written into space around earlier anatomical illustrations and
text; according to A. G. Watson, these can be dated to ea. 1292. ( 67 ) A bifolium with illustrations of
aspects of women's medical treatment was inserted as ff. 33r-34v. ( 68 ) On f. 63ra-b, a later hand has
added 1T304af301 : Si fuerit fetor oris causa stomachi et intestinorum ... habeat pulverem de rosis et
cynamomo facto superaspergat. Other contents: tracts on physiognomy, chiromancy, astronomy,
mathematics, and medicine; includes obstetrical illustrations from Muscio's Gynaecia; ( 69 ) Constan-
tinus Africanus, De genilalibus membris, C0 ) De coilu, C1 ) and De stomacho; De spermate. ( 72 ) The
Trotula and four other texts were copied directly from ms 81; see n. 97 below. Described: W. H.
Black, A Descriptive, Analytical, and Critical Catalogue of the Manuscripts Bequeathed ... by Elias
Ashmole (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1845), coiL 313-17. Cited: Meyer (though with incorrect
foliation) ; Post.
66. - , - , MS Ashmole 1427, ff. 29ra-38vb (s. x1vl, England): standardized ensemble.
Heading: Incipit lib er de passionibus mulierum secundum Trotulam. < C >urn autor vniuersitatis
deus in prima mundi constitucione ... F. 37rb: ... cepe, pastina cura [sic] domestice et similia.
<Trotula minor.> <U>t a nobis de curatione mulierum ... Breaks off at bottom of f. 38vb in 1T151
just prior to the Trota/<< Trotula }) reference with the catch-words: generat ventositatem. Following
quire lost. Other contents: Practica equorum, Practica canum, and Chirurgia Theodorici. At the end
are notes regarding payments made by one Robert de Munby with the date <• Anno Domini & c.
xliiij }) (i.e., 1344 ?) at the end of the ms. Described: Black, op. cif., col. 1163. Cited: Spitzner;
Meyer ; Post. '----

Gynaecia which was left unfinished in the New York ms (it ends on the recto side of the last leaf); Fournival
clearly describes his copy as cum figuris partus naturalis et non naturalis ei gemellorum atque complurium, which is
an accurate description of the illustrations that should have been found with the text. In other words, there is no
way Fournival could have made the Biblionomia description having nothing but ms 64 in front of him. There are,
it seems to me, two possible solutions: (1) ms 64 is an incomplete apograph of Fournival's ms; or (2) Fournival
wrote his Biblionomia entry from a list of contents of a ms he had commissioned but which, at the time, had not
yet been completed. His addition of a shelfmark in his description (he assigned it the letter << L >>) indicates his
confidence that he knew right where he would put the book on his shelves when it was done.
(66) MLGBSupp, p. 13; James, Ancient Libraries (see n. 18 above), catalogue of St. Augustine's, p. 347.
(67) A. G. WATSON, Catalogue of Dated and Daiable Manuscripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, 2 vols. (Oxford:
Clarendon, 1984), 1:6.
(68) The exceptional illustrations in ms 65 have generated a considerable literature. See in particular, Loren C.
MAcKINNEV and H. BoBER, {< A Thirteenth-Century Medical Case History in Miniatures, » Speculum 35 (1960),
251-59,_figs. 1-8; Loren C. MAcKINNEV, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts (London: Wellcome
Historical Medical Library, 1965), pp. 100-1; B. H. HILL, <<The Grain and the Spirit in Medieval Anatomy,»
Speculum 40 (1965), p. 72, fig. 2; C. H. TALBOT, Medicine in Medieval England (New York: Science History
Publications, London: Oldbourne, 1967), pp. 81-82; 0. PXcHT & J. J. G. ALEXANDER, Illuminated Manuscripts
in the Bodleian Library, Oxford Ill British School (Oxford, 1972); Lucy Freeman SANDLER, Gothic Manuscripts,
1285-1383, 2 vols., = vol. 5 of A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, J. J. G. Alexander,
general editor (London: Harvey Miller, with Oxford" University Press, 1986), 2:28 and illuss. 41, 42.
(69) See n. 64 above.
(70) An excerpt from Constantinus' Pantegni, this is edited in Green, Genecia, pp. 312-23.
(71) Enrique MoNTERO CARTELLE, ed., Constantini Liber de coiiu: El traiado de andrologia de Constantino el
Africano. Estudio y edicion critica, Monografias de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 77 (Santiago de
Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1983).
(72) See n. 63 above.

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67. -,-,MS Bodley 361 (SC 2462), pp. 458-480 (current pagination) (an. 1453-59, Salisbury):
LSM1, DCM2, and DOM2 (fragment). Title: Trotula maior. De passionibus mulierum. Causis et
Curis earumdem sequitur tractatus, et prima prohemium. Cum auctor uniuersitatis deus in primeua
mundi constitucione ... P. 469 : ... et m uta bis uel ter in die optimum est, etc. Sequitur secunda pars.
P. 470: Trotula minor. Ut de curis mulierum ... P. 473: Unde contigit quod Trotha [sic] vocata fuit
tan quam magistra. P. 480 (U232) : ... et pone acetum in olla inferius et liberabitur. De ornamentis
mulierum sequitur et prima de pilis remouendis. Ut mulier suauissima appareat ... Text breaks off at
bottom of p. 480 in U246 : ... trahenda palmam suauiter per singula mem-. The following eight leaves
were lost. Other contents : several Practica (including those of Bartholomaeus, J ohannes de Sane to
Paulo, and Archimatthaeus), tracts on diet, drugs, diseases of the spleen and liver. Owner: copied by
Hermannus Zurke of Greifswald for Gilbert Kymer, chancellor of Oxford (1431-34, 1446-53), dean of
Salisbury (1449-63), and personal physician to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. C3 ) Described:
Summ. Cat., 2/1 :378-80. Cited: Post.
68. -,-,MS Bodley 682 (SC 2696), ff. 172r-196r (s. xv 2 , England): standardized ensemble
(unique rearrangement of ob/gyn capp., with additional material from Gualterus Agilon, Lanfranc,
Roger de Baron, and a Passionarius attributed to Galen; all cosmetic material has been deleted). F.
172r: < Incipit tractatus intitulatus Trotula mulierum. > Cum auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima
mundi origine ... F. 180r: Vnde dicitur quod Trotula vocata fuit quasi magistra in curis mulierum ...
F. 196r (U127, De regimine nutricis): ... vitet nimiam sollicitudinem et menstruorum prouocationem
etc. <Explicit Trotula mulierum. > Marginal notes added by later hand. Many sections have the
same peculiar readings as the modified text of standardized ensemble in ms 78. Other contents (in
five other hands) : practical medicine (urines, antidotes, critical days), including Antidotarium of
Johannes de Sancta Paulo. Described: Summ. Cat. 2(1 :498-9. Cited: Post.
69. -,-,MS Bodley 786 (SC 2626), f. 175ra (s. xm med., England): proto-ensemble (frag-
ment of LSM). Qum [sic] auctor universitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... Breaks off abruptly at
bottom of column a (U4): ... quam oporteat exeat inde quamplures egritudines fiunt. Other contents:
calendar; tracts on medicinal simples; Gerard's commentm:y on the Viaticum; Roger Baron, Prac-
tica major et minor; recipes; Pomum ambre; annotations in Latin, a,nd English. Owner: Edmund
Lacy, bishop of Exeter (d. 1455); Exeter Cathedral. C4 ) Described: 'summ. cat. 2/1 :456-7. Cited:
Post.
70. - , - , MS Digby 29 (SC 1630), ff. 278r-291 v (s. xv in., England): proto-ensemble (Harley
Group). < Incipit Trotula mulierum etc.> Cum autor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F.
286v: ... ut sunt cepe et pastinate demesticus [sic] etc. U Vt de curis mulierum ... F. 288v: Unde quia
Trota uocata fuit 'magistra cum quadam pellicula ... F. 291 v: ... panno superinducto pone desuper. U
Explicit hec Trota multum mulieribus apta. U Depositor ( ?) ut numquam videat sibi rusticus illam.
Condita nature non fiant principia iure. U Sed sileant mores mulieres res et honores. U Conseruent
cleri qui dant votum mulieri etc. [Marg.: Autores in medicinis.] Galienus, Diascarides, Rasy, Dama-
cenus, Lilium, Mesue, Cuplio- ( ?), Constantinus, Sera pion, Auicenna, Algazel, Aueroys et alii
sequentes. Many marginal annotations by Stapleton. Other contents: 45 treatises (in Latin, English
and French) mostly on medical topics, though also including astrology and metrics; originally a
single volume WithOxford, Balliol College, MS 219 which-contained religious exempla and sermons.
Scribe and owner: Richard Stapleton, Master of Balliol College ea. 1430, who gave it to the col-

(73) WATSON, Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), 1:15; and Linda
Ehrsam VoiGTS, <<Scientific and Medical Books,>> in Book Production and Publishing in Britain, 1375-1475, ed.
Jeremy GRIFFITHS and Derek PEARSALL (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 345-402, esp. p.
385. On Kymer's stature in the English medical community of his time; see Talbot & Hammond, pp. 60-63; and
Faye Marie GETZ, <<The Faculty of Medicine Before 1500, >>in J. I. CATTO and Ralph EvANS, eds., The History of
the University of Oxford, vol. II: Late Medieval Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992), pp. 373-405, esp. pp. 398-404.
(74) See MLGB, pp. 85 and 262.

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lege; C5 ) later owned by John Dee before 1583. C6 ) Described: William D. Macray, Catalogi codicum
manuscriptorum Bibliolhecae Bodleianae, pars IX: Codices a viro clarissimo Kenelm Digby (Oxford :
Clarendon, 1883), coli. 25-28. Cited: Meyer; Post.
71. ~, ~, MS Digby 75 (SC 1676), ff. 52r-63r (an. 1458, England): proto-ensemble (LSM
only). <Jesus> Cum auctor vniuersitatis Deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 58r-v: 11"11"129-131
transposed after 'tf74. F. 62v (1T128): Salsum autem lac male dolens [sic] infantis nutrimento [f. 63r]
non est conueniens. Followed immediately (ff. 63r-64r) by: Passiones et morbos puerorum ad hue
incunabilis existencium. Topics noted in margins by the two original scribes. Other contents: various
treatises on practical medicine, the magnet, astrology (including the Centiloquium), astronomy (parts
of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos), prognostication and physiognomy; some material in English; priests'
manuals. Described: Macray, op. cif., coiL 80-82. Cited: Post.
72. ~,~,MS Digby 79 (SC 1680), ff. 106r-114r; 142r-144v (s. xm 1 , England?): C7 ) DCM1;
DOM2. F. 106r: Ut de cura mulierum nobis compendiosa fiat traditio ... F. 108r: Vnde contingit
quod cum quedam puella propter huiusmodi infirmitatem deberet incidi uocata fuit Trota quasi
magistra et admirata fuit quam plurimum. F. 114r (1T232l): ... mollificat et maturat. Probata hec
omnia hie notata teste Trota. Explicit.// F. 142r: Stvpha mulierum. Vt mulier planissima et suauis-
sima uideatur ... F. 144v: ... et sic bene ornata ad uirum accedat. Et hec de ornatu mulierum dicta
sufficiant. Followed on ff. 144v-145r by miscellaneous cosmetic recipes. Other contents: De passio-
nibus mulierum B, capp. 1-9 (ff. 7r-8r); {!8 ) pseudo-Theodorus Priscianus, Ad Octavium {ilium, frag-
ment (ff. 8r-9v) ; C9 ) treatises on practical medicine, including several by Salernitan authors and a
miscellany of cures, some of which are attributed to Johannes Ferrarius, Copho, Petrus Musandinus
and Archimatthaeus; Richard us Anglicus, De ornatu (ff. 156v-157r); Secreta sigillorum Eethel;
Alexandrina experimenta. Described: Macray, op. cil., coli. 85-86. Cited: T-K 2 (1615, 1620).
73. ~,~,MS e Musaeo 219 (SC 3541), ff. 87Av, 88r-105r (old foliation) (s. xrv in., England):
transitional ensemble (Group B, 1T1T rearranged topically with new material added). F. 87Av:
Incipiunt capitula in librum Trotuie de egritudinibus mulierum. This list of 39 chapters interrupts
the table of contents of pseudo-Cleopatra, Gynaecia, which had begun on the same folio with the
rubric : Incipit prologus in librum Trotule de infirmitatibus mulierum et earum curi§. The Gynaecia
list then resumes, followed by the complete text of the Gyn(lecia (ending on f. 87Dr.) ( 80) Followed by
Gualterus Agilon, De retencione menstruorum (ff. 87Dr-87Ev, a fragment of, ffi:g table on urines ?).
F. 88r: < Incipit prologus in librum Trotule de morbis mulierum et curis. > Cum autem vniuersitatis
deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 92v: Vnde contigit quod Trota vocata fuit quasi magistra ad
quandam puellam que propter ventositatem quasi ex ruptura laborauit, et admirata quam plurimum
fuit Trota. Text ends on f. 105r with new recipe De constrictiuis: ... sanguine draconis, aluminis,
e
grana uue ana. English kedelot given as synonym for succus rapistri (f. 92v). 1 ) Followed immedia-
e
tely by Constantinus Africanus, De coitu. 2 ) Other contents: medical. practica; various tracts on

(75) See MLGB, pp. 145 and 290; and R. A. B. MYNORS, Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Balliol College, Oxford
(Oxford: Clarendon, 1963), pp. xx, 213-15 and 382. On Stapleton, see A. B. EMDEN, A Biographical Register of the
University of Oxford to A.D. 1500, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1957-59), 3:1766.
(76) Julian RoBERTS and Andrew G. WATSON (edd.), John Dee's Library Catalogue (London: Bibliographical
Societ~ 1990), p. 128 (item M177).
(77) Dr. Neil Ker made the following notes on this manuscript: {<Mainly in a semi-current & possibly English
hand. Certainly in England by later xiii c. (v. ff. 4v, 212). Glosses in Irish & Irish script ff. [space left blank], 212v
[tentatively dated 16th or early 17th century by F. J. Byrne in a separate note]. ff. 82-105 are in a bookhand, not
English but no doubt Italian [his underlining]. Parchment varies a good deal, cf. e.g. ff. 175 & 176, the former
soft & like Italian, the latter hard. ?The collections of an Englishman at Salerno. » My thanks to Dr. Martin
Kauffmann of the Bodleian Library for sending me. these notes.
(78) See n. 16 above.
(79) Edited Valentin RosE, Theodori Prisciani Euporiston libri I I I, cum physicorum fragmento et additamentis
pseudo-Theod6reis (Leipzig: Teubner, 1894), pp. 340-54.
(80) On the Gynaecia Cleopatrae, see n. 16 above.
(81) Cf. Tony HuNT, Plant Names of Medieval England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1989), p. 219, s.v. rapistrum.
(82) See n. 71 above.

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urines, fevers, etc. Ms 79 below is an apograph of this ms. Described: Summ. cat. 2/2:674-76. Cited:
Post.
74. -,-,MS Wood empt. 15 (SC 8603), ff. 18r-31r (s. xv 1, England): proto-ensemble (Har-
ley Group). Cum auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 26r: ... vt sunt cepe et
pastinate domestice etc. Vt de curis mulierum compendiosa ... F. 27v : Vnde quia Trota vocata fuit
magistra cum quedam pellicula pro ventositate sua debuit incidi ... F. 31r (1T223): ... et illud panno
superinducto pone desuper etc. Explicit Trotta. Other contents: Schola Salernitana, Circa instans.
Owner: donated by John Stnetesham (d. 1448), chancellor of Exeter, to Exeter Cathedral. Written
e
by J. Bobych (fl. 1444). 3 ) Described: Summ. cat. 2/2:1201-2.
75. -,Corpus Christi College, MS 221, ff. 64ra-vb (s. xiv 1 , England): DOM1 (selections, with
additional recipes). < Depilatorium. > (84) Vt mulier suauissima et planissima et sine pilis ... F. 64va
(1T246): ... et accipitat [sic] albissimum pannum lineum et exeat. Followed with no break by additio-
nal recipes on hair care from another source, ending f. 64vb : ... liniatur caput cum oleo mirtino in
quo resoluatur lapdanum. Other contents of this ms (ff. 1-67): general natural philosophical compila-
tion, two treatises on gems, making oils and unguents, etc. Owners : written and owned by Michael of
Northgate (fl. 1340), monk, translator and author of works in Middle English; (B 5 ) he in turn gave it
to Benedictine Abbey of St. Augustine's, Canterbury; (86 ) later owned by John Dee (1527-1608). (B 7 )
Described: Coxe 2/4:87-88. Cited: T-K 2 {1621).
76. - , Exeter College, MS 35, ff. 38rb-40va; 228vb-230ra (s. x1v 1 , England): transitional
ensemble (Group B, acephalous); DOM 3. Beginning of ensemble text missing due to loss of quire
between ff. 37 & 38. Heading of f. 38r: Tro. Begins with 'lf115 of LSM: Contra difficultatem partus
que fuit ex constrictione orificii ... F. 38vb: ... ut cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. Followed by
three additional recipes Ad menstrua prouocanda et aborsum faciendum. Then DCM begins with
slightly variant text (1T132): Ad probandum si mulier laboret frigida: uel calida causa tale fiat
experimeutum ... F. 39rb: Vnde coutigit quod Trota vocata fuit ... Breaks off abruptly on f. 40va in
'lf214 (Ad dolorem matricis quando surgit ex matricis duricie) : ... Et cum exierit, pista. Rest of column
hlank except for one unrelated note. 'lf1T.304 and 304a (on breath odor) added without any heading in
column b. /1 F. 228vb: Incipit summus tractatus de ornatu mulie:rum. Ut dicit Ypocras in libro quem
de scientia prognosticorum edidit ... F. 230ra : ... et decenter conseruenb~Explicit tractatus necessa-
rius de suplectione pulcritudinis mulierum. Recipe added in top margin of f. 229r inCludes ref. to
mulieres Gallice. Richardus Anglicus, De ornaiu, appears on ff. 254ra-255rb, with a Regimen contra
slerilitatem of Magister J. of Parma immediately following (f. 255rb-va). Other contents: tracts on
natural philosophy and medicine, including works of Giles of Corbeil and Nicholaus. Owner: Henry
de Whitfield {or Whitfeld, d. 1388), MA, BM, DTh, fellow of Queen's College, Oxford; (88 ) in 1383 or
1387 he donated the ms to Stapledon Hall (later Exeter College). Described: Coxe 1/4:13-14. Cited:
T-K 2 1617.
77. - , Magdalen College, MS lat. 173, ff. 246v-256v (s. XIV in., England [with Italian decora-
tion?}): LSM1.; DOM2. < Incipit Trotula de infirmitatibus mulierum. > Cum auctor uniuersitatis

(83) MLGB, pp. 85 agd _262; MLGBSupp., p. 101. On Stnetesham (or Snetesham), see Emden, Biographical
Register ... Oxford, 3:1724.
(84) In his .list of contents on the front flyleaf, the scribe and owner Michael of Northgate referred to the text as
Depilatoria.
(85) Also known as Dan Michael, Michael of Northgate translated into the Kentish dialect the French confessor's
manual Somme le Roi under the title Ayenbite of Inwii(<< The Remorse of Conscience>>). See Emden, Donors (n. 18
above), p. 14; and Robert R. RAYMO, <<Works of Religious and Philosophical Instruction,>} in J. Burke SEVERS
and Albert E. HARTUNG (general editors), A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500, publication
ongoing (New Haven, Conn.: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967- ), 7:2258-59, 2328, 2475-77, and
2539.
(86) See James, Ancient Libraries (n. 18 above), cat. item 1170; MLGB, pp. 47 and 245.
(87) Cf. note 18 above; John Dee's Catalogue, pp. 126-7 (item M158).
(88) Talbot & Hammond, 86-87; and Getz MPME, 261.

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deus in prima mundi constitucione ... F. 253r: ... et habet sinistram mamillam grossiorem. Followed
by two additional recipes (1T1T114a-b): Ad eductionem fetus ... ; Ad matricem constringendam ...
mutabis in die bis uel ter. Optimum est. <Explicit.> < Incipit liber de ornatu mulierum. > Ait
Ypocras in libro quem de pronosticorum scientia composuit. Omnis quidem [sic] medicine artis
studio seu gloriam seu delectabilem amicorum copiam consequi considerauerit, rationem prudentum
regulis adeo munire studeat ne in aliquibus ad artem medendi pertingentibus inscius uideatur. Cum
ergo super earum compturis mulieres multociens nos conueniant ne et in hoc experti uideamur uel
inueniamur de earum compturis quedam in hoc opusculo enucliare disposuimus a pilorum remotione
[f. 253v] inchoantes. (B9 ) Vt ergo mulier planissima et suauissima sit ... F. 256v: ... et sic bene ornata
ad uirum accedat. Et hec de ornatu mulierum dicta sufficiant. Many marginal annotations by later
hand. Other contents : medical texts, including several by Constantinus Africanus and Salernitan
authors. Described: Coxe, 2/2:79-80. Cited: Hamilton; Post; T-K 2 (1613).
78. - , Merton College, MS 230 (N.l.3), ff. 11ra-20va (s. xrv in., England, probably Oxford):
standardized ensemble. (9°) [C]um auctor uniuersitatis deus in prima mundi constitucione ... F.
15ra: ... ut cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. [U]t a nobis de curatione mulierum ... F. 15vb: Vnde
contingit quod Trotula uocata fuit quasi magistra operis. F. 18va: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. [U]t
mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ... F. 20va: ... etiam mane laue [sic] cum aqua tepida. Explicit
liber factus a muliere salernitana que Trotula uocatur. Space left for rubrics and initials, which were
never added. Other contents : preceded by a treatise on horse medicine, followed by one on diseases
of children; other medical texts, including several by Arnald of Villanova. ( 91 ) Owner: possibly
owned by Simon Bredon, who willed his books to Merton College in 1368; 2 ) Merton College. e
Described: Coxe 1/3 :90. Cited: Meyer; Hamilton; Post.
79. - , Merton College, MS 324, ff. 94v, 98r-113r (s. xvl, England): transitional ensemble
(Group B; rearranged, with new material added). F. 94v: Incipiunt capitula in librum Trotule de
egritudinibus mulierum. This list of 39 chapters interrupts the table of contents of pseudo-Cleopatra,
Gynaecia, which had begun on f. 94r with the heading : < Incipit prologus in librum Trotule de
infirmitatibus mulierum et earum curis. > The Gynaecia list then resumes, followed by the complete
text of the Gynaecia (ending on f. 96v). Followed by Waiter Agilon, De retentione menstruorum (ff.
96v-98r). F. 98r: < Incipit prologus prologus [sic] in librum Trotule de morbis mulierum et curis. >
Cum autem vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 102v: Vnde contigit quod Trota vocata
fuit quasi magistra ... et admirata quam plurimum fuit Trota. F. 113r: ... aluminis grana vue ana.
Followed immediately by Constantinus Africanus, De coitu. (93 ) Other contents : medical and natural
philosophical texts. An apograph of e Musaeo 219 (ms 73 above). Described: Coxe 1/3 :128-29. (9 4 )
Cited : Meyer; Hamilton ; Post.
80. - , New College, MS 171, ff. 74v-81r (s. xnr 1, Italy or S. France): proto-ensemble.
< Incipiunt cure magistre Trottule. > Cum auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F.

(89) Modified preface; cf. ms 93.

(90) This has many peculiar readings which are found only in this ms and, in some cases, in ms 68.
(91) These include Arnald de Villanova, Aphorismi de gradibus, ed. Michael R. Me V AUGH in Opera medica omnia,
II (Granada and Barcelona: Seminarium historiae medicae Granatensis, !975); and Translatio libri Galieni de
Tigore et tremore et iectigatione et spasmo, ed. Michael R. McVaugh, ibid., XVI (Barcelona, 1981). These Arnaldian
works were written in Montpellier between 1282 (the De rigore) and the late 1290s (Aphorismi de gradibus).
Moreover, the copies of these texts in ms 78 are of exceptionally high quality (see esp. Me V AUGH, ed. Aphorismi
de gradibus, pp. 140-41), thus suggesting a fairly direct transmission from Montpellier. Whether all the texts in
the manuscript similarly derive from Montpellierian exemplars is unknown.
(92) Although F. M. PoWICKE, The Medieval Books of Merion College (Oxford: Clarendon, 1931), p. 240, believed
that the circumstances of ms 78's acquisition were unknown, Michael McVaugh suggests that it may correspond
to a volume identified by Bredon as<< libros Arnaldi de Villa nova>); see McVaugh's edition of the De rigore, p. 43,
n. 78.
(93) See n. 71 above.
(94) Ms 79 was not acquired by Merton College until the 18th century; see Powicke, op. cit., p. 246.

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77v: ... ut sunt cepe et pastinace demestice [sic]. <Quomodo co[gnoscitur] utr[um] m[ulier] contra-
rias proue ex frigiditate uel caliditate. > Ut de curis mulierum compendiosa ... F. 78r: Vnde; contin-
git quod Trocta fuit uocata magistra cum quadam puella ... F. 79r: ... et istud panno super inductum
pone desuper. <Explicit toe. egi. Incipit de ornatu mulierum. > Ut mulier planissima et suauissima
fiat ... Ends f. 81r (in a cap. with new material, De mulieribus corruptis), explicit illegible. In this last
cosmetic section, the compilerjscribe freely interwove chapters from the DOM es) and DCM in with
Richardus Anglicus, De ornatu; the result is a cosmetic compendium moving down the body from
the head to the genitalia. Throughout the text, the compiler editorialized on occasion, such as when
he deleted 'IT'IT124-127 of the LSM with the claim that enough had already been said about infant
care (f. 77r), or when he cross-referenced 'IT203 on breast pain caused by uterine suffocation (f. 80v) to
the earlier section in the LSM on the topic of suffocatio matricis ('IT'IT45-50). Other contents: medical
texts, including several by Salernitan authors. Owners : William Rede, Bishop of Chichester
(1369-85); he bequeathed it to New College, Oxford. (96 ) Described: Coxe 1/7:66-68. Cited: Meyer;
Port. ·
81. - , Pembroke College, MS 21, ff. 176r-189r (s. xm ex., England): proto-ensemble (LSM
only); DOM (fragment). Cum auctor uniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 189r: ... ut
cepe, pastinaca domestica et similibus. Explicit Trotula senior deo gracias. Then DOM 'IT305 follows
immediately: Item si mulier parum ex folio lauri ... bonus augmentabitur malus non retardabitur.
Other contents : various theoretical and practical medical tracts, including works of Constantinus
Africanus, Johannes de Sancta Paulo, and Johannes Platearius; Rhazes, Praciica puerorum. The
Trotula and four other texts were later copied from this ms into ms 65.e7 ) Described : Ker(Piper,
3:689-93.
82. *Paris, privately owned ms, es) ff. 28ra-45vb (ea. 1300, Brabant): proto-ensemble (mere-
trices Group). Incipit liber de synthomatibtis, id est, passionibus mulierum qui dicitur Trotula mulie-
rum quem due meretrices scilicet mater et filia sua ediderunt. Nam cum diuersis [sic] circuebant
terras multa experiebantur ut hie patet. Cum auctor uniuersitatis de us in prima origine mundi ...
LSM text includes two substantial additions: (1) insert between 'IT'IT44 and 45 (ff. 30va-31ra):
<Nota ista de matrice. > Matrix secundum Alexandrum inanathomia ... ; (2) insert within 'IT74 (ff.
33rb-33vb): Sunt etiam teste Ypocras in tymporibus que dicimtur i11ueniles quibus inscisis nulla fit
amplius ... F. 37vb : ... ut sunt cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. Vnde notandum quod quecum-
que sunt augmentancia lac et sperma ut feniculus et similia. <Explicit Trotula. Incipit sua filia de
curis mulierum et prima qua causa laboret. > Ut de curis mulierum ... F. 39vb: Vnde contingit quod
Trotula magistra fuit vocata cum quedam puella debuit incidi propter ventositatem quasi de ruptura
roboraret, et mirata fuit quam plurimum. Trotula fecit banc vocari ad se, et venire ad domum suam
ut in secreta melius cognosceret causam egritudinis. Qua cognita quod non ex inflatione uel ruptura

(95) 'IT1T242, 243, 253, 258, 263, 268, 270 and 271 ; in other words, only the regular proto-ensemble chapters on
hair care.
(96) SeeR. W. HuNT, ~<The Medieval Library,>> in New College Oxford, 1379-1979, ed. John BuxTON and Penry
WILLIAMS (Oxford: Wardens and Fellows of New College, 1979), pp. 317-45, at p. 320.
(97) The connections between Ashmole 399 and Pembroke 21 (mss 65 and 81) were first noted by Annie ANDER-
SON, «Some Medical Manuscripts in the Library of Pembroke College, Oxford, >> unpublished typescript notes (no
date), who observed the similarity between the two copies of Constantinus Africanus, De siomacho. I have now
confirmed that the Ashmole scribe borrowed five texts from the Pembroke ms. The readings are exactly identical
or, when they are not, show the errors in transcription by the Ashmole scribe (e.g., whole lines of the Pembroke
text might be skipped ; in some cases the Ashmole scribe noticed the error and recopied the text, in others he
never recognized his mistake). The correspondence is as follows: Pembroke 21, ff. 176r-189r (Trotula) = Ashmole
399, 21r-26r; ff. 75r-78r (pseudo-Galen, De spermate) = ff. 26r-27r; ff. 37r-48r (Richard us Anglicus, De anatho-
mia) = ff. 27r-31v; ff. 1r-17v (Constantinus Africanus, De stomacho) = ff. 31v-42r; ff. 18r-36v (Johannes de
Sancto Paulo, De simplicibus medicinis) = ff. 42r-46r.
(98) I have consulted this from the microfiche available at the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes,
Collection privee, MS 135. My thanks to Charles S. F. Burnett for bringing this important ms to my attention,
and to its owner for graciously allowing me to consult it. My thanks, too, to J. P. Gumbert for his paleographical
assessment, and to Willem Kuiper for his many generous efforts to gather information.

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fuerit sed ex ventositate matricem comprimente, fecit Trotula sibi balneum fieri in aqua ... F. 45rb
('lf235) : ... et invngat cum illo manus. <Ad suauitatem cutis mulierum. > Ut mulier planissima et
suauissima fiat ... 'lf'lf242, 243 and 244 of DOM, then a remedy to clarify the voice and three to
determine if a wounded man will die, ending (f. 45va) : ... Sed si tunc vomit, non euadet. Si non
vomit, euadet. F. 45va-b: < Expliciunt ambe Trotule mater et sua filia perfecte et bene.> The rest
of the column is filled with miscellaneous recipes. Followed immediately (ff. 46ra-62ra) by pseudo-
Albertus Magnus, Secreta mulierum. Other contents: medical, natural philosophical and magical
texts, in Latin and Dutch. No published description.
83. - , Bibliotheque Nationale, MS lat. 6964, ff. 96va-99vb, 135ra-137va; 141ra-141va (an.
1305, Montpellier): standardized ensemble; DOM2 (excerpts). The text of the ensemble is out of
order because the copist added ff. 1-97 and 138-142 to the original ms (ff. 100-134), and then used ff.
98-99 and 135-137 (which had previously -been blank) to complete the text. This same copyist noted
the break at the bottom of f. 99vb by adding: Require residuum Trotule post vrinas magistri Mauri.
F. 96va: Incipit liber de passionibus mulierum secundum Trotulam. Cum Deus in prima mundi
constitutione ... F. 98vb: ... cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. < Cura. [marg.] Hie incipit Trotula
minor.> Ut a nobis de curatione mulierum ... F. 99rb: Vnde contingit quod Trocula uocata fuit
quasi magistra operis. F. 136ra: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. <De palliandis mulieribus. > Ut
mulier suauissirna et planissima fiat ... F. 137va: ... et mane lauet cum aqua tepida. [later hand:
Explicit finis Trotule.] <Explicit Trotula. > J/ F. 141ra: < S>icut ait Ypocras in prologo pronosti-
corum omnis qui medicine studio seu gloriam seu delectabilem amicorum copiam consequi desiderat
regulis et rationibus prudentum se adeo munire studeat ne in singulis ad artem medendi spectantibus
inhermis videatur. Oportet ergo medicum non solum contra egrotrum corporum discrasias exhibere
sed etiam sanorum qriedam uicia corrigere vt sic de vtrisque Iaudem famosam consequatur. Sed quia
mulieres ut placeant maritis siue amasiis suis officium medici frequencius solent expetere, alie vicia
corrigentes, alie pulcritudinis modum imponentes, ideo mulieribus specialiter constituitur iste trac-
tatus, non enim contente sunt naturali pulcritudine. < S > tupha itaque mulieribus vt planissima et
suauissima fiat ... F. 141 va: ... et sic facie bene ornata et toto corpore ad virum accedat. <Explicit
liber de ornatu mulierum. Deo gratias. > Other conte-nts: various medical works, including Rhazes,
Practica puerorum; Bernard de Gordon and several Salernitan-texts. Owners: Bertrand Cormerii (fl.
1435), who sold it to Jean Caillau (d. after 1472), physician to the duke of Orleans ;·Jean then gave it
to his patron, Charles d'Orleans (d. 1466), in exchange for another book. ( 99 ) Described: Cat. reg.,
p. 298; De Renzi, Coll. sal. 5:124-5. Color photo of f. 96v in Pasca, op. cit., p. 47. Cited: T-K 2 (60,
1272, 1613).
84. -,-,MS lat. 6988, ff. 98rb-106rb (s. XIII ex.jx1v in., S. France): standardized ensem-
ble. ( 100 ) < Incipit liber de passionibus mulierum secundum Trotulam. > Cum actor vniuersitatis
deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 101 va: ... ut sunt cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. Ut a nobis
de curatione mulierurn ... F. 102rb: Vnde contingit quod Trotula uocata fuit quasi magistra operis ...
F. 104rb: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. F. 104va: Ut mulier suauissima et leuissima ... F. 106rb: ... et
mane lauet cum aqua tepida. <Explicit Trotula deo gracias. > Other contents: 20 medical texts,
including works of Constantinus Africanus (including his De coitu and the perhaps spuriously
attributed De spermate), (1° 1 ) Avicenna, Giles of Corbeil, etc. Described: Cat. reg., pp. 300-301 ; De
Renzi, Coil. sal., 5 :120-22.
85. ~, - , MS lat. 6988A, ff. 10r-14v (s. xv in., E. France): proto-ensemble (acephalous,
Erfurt Group). Begins abruptly (due to loss of preceding quire) in DCM 'lf148: ad nares de hoc

(99) See Mss dales, 2:391 and Plate XXXVIII. On Cormerii, see WickersheimerfJacquart 1:82; on Caillau, see
ibid. 1:376.
(100) The opening chapters are actually conflated with the revised ensemble; from '!T30 on, however, the text
adheres to the standardized ensemble with little deviation.
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emplastro ponimus ad frontem ... F. 10r: Vnde contingit quod Trotula uocata fuit magistra cum
quedam puella debuit incidi ... F. 13v (U234): ... in maio factum quod melius est et inunge
manus. (1°2 ) <Ut mulier sit plana et leuissima a capite.> Ut mulier sit plana et leuissima ... F. 14v:
... et uidebis uermes quasi pilos cadentes in aqua. DOM U'lf242, 243, 247, 248, 250, 249, 252, 253, 258,
261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 268, 270, and 271; then DCM 'ITU219 and 218. Followed by new cap. De
ornatu faciei: Ad ornatum faciei. Recipe iari, brionie ... distempera cum aqua fabarum uel aqua
rosacea. Ad idem ualet gallina alba. Other contents: various tracts on materia medica, compound
medicines, urines, etc., including works of Giles of Corbeil and Arnald of Villanova. Described : Cat.
reg., p. 301.
86. - , - , MS lat. 7036, ff. 137r-153v (ea. 1250-1275, S. Italy): (' 03) intermediate ensemble.
F. 137r: Quoniam auctorum diuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 144v: ... huic subuenimus
cum generantibus sperma, ut pastinace et similia. Ut de curis mulierum ... F. 146r: Unde contingit
quod Trotula uocata fuit tamquam ingrata [sic] cum quedam puella ... Capp. on redness of the face
from Richardus Anglicus' De ornatu are inserted between U'IT167 and 168 on ff. 147v-148v (cf. mss 8
and 24). F. 152v: ... et postea cum oua exinde manus frica. U[t] mulier planissima et suauissima
inueniatur ... F. 153v, ends abruptly at bottom of folio in U254 (Ad capillorum coloraturi): ... pectina
caput ut quod capilli adhesent tamquam superfluum. Last gathering apparently lost. A few marginal
annotations by two later hands. Other contents: medical texts, including Isaac Israeli, De dietis
universalibus et particularibus, and a work on anatomy. Described: Cat. reg., p. 306. Cited: T-K 2
(1261).
87-, -,MS lat. 7056, ff. 77rb-86va; 97rb-100ra (s. XIII med., England or N. France): transi-
tional ensemble (Group B); TEM (U rtext of LSM). < Incipit summa que dicitur Trotula. > Cum
auctor uniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 81rb: ... ut cepe, pastinace domestice et
similia. <De traditione curarum. > Ut de curis multum [sic] compendiosa fiat traditio ... F. 82ra:
Vnde contigit quod domina Trotula uocata fuit quasi magistra ... F. 84va: ... et postea duo oua.
< Alius Tractatus qui dicitur minor Trotula. > Ut ait Ypocras in libro quem de pronosticorum
scientia composuit ... F. 86va: ... et sic bene ornata ad uirum accedat. Et hec de ornatu mulierum
dicta sufficiant. // F. 97rb: <Hie incipit tractatus de egritudinibus muHerum. > Quoniam femine
non habent tantum calorem ... F. 100ra: ... et synistram!narnillam habet grossiorem. Et hec de eis
sufficiant. Other contents: pseudo-Cleopatra, Gynaecia, abbreviated-version (ff. 86va-88rb); (" 04) De
passionibus mulierum A (ff. 88rb-89va); (' 05 ) 16 illustrations of fetus-in-utero drawri rrom Muscio's
Gynaecia added in lower margins of ff. 87r-89r by a later hand; (1°6 ) Non omnes quidem (ff.
89va-93ra); (1°7 ) approximately twelve other medical texts, including those of Richardus Anglicus
and Roger Baron. (' 08 ) Described: Cat. reg., pp. 308-9. Cited: T-K 2 (284, 419, 1613); Meyer.
88. - , - , MS lat. 7066, ff. 33v-42r; 53r-73r (s. XV med., E. France or Germany): (1°9 ) proto-
ensemble (LSM only); standardized ensemble (copied by different hands). F. 33v: Tabula

(102) '11'235, which normally closes the proto-ensemble, was mistakenly embedded between '11''11'243 and 247 in the
DOM.
(103) For dating, see Fran<;ois AvmL & Marie-Therese GoussET, with Claudia RABEL, Manuscrits enlumines
d'origine italienne. 2: XIII' siecle (Paris: Bibliotheque Kationale, 1984), no. 192, p. 163.
(104) See n. 16--above.
(105) See n. 59 above.
(106) For the history of these illustrations and citations of other mss, see Hanson & Green, pp. 1023-24, 1058, and
1072-73.
(107) See n. 60 above.
(108) Danielle JAcQUART suggests that ms 87 is the companion volume of Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de
France, MS lat. 7046, which contains several texts translated from the Arabic by Gerard of Cremona. See her
«Note sur la traduction latine du Kitiib al-Mansiirf de Rhazes, >>Revue d'Histoire des Textes 24 (1994), 359-374.
(109) M SS dates 2 :541 : << L'explicit de ce ms. [i.e., f. llr: finitus 1441 die viij Januarij per Petrum Pylatre), qui
semble fautif, a sans doute ete recopie sur !'archetype.>> Patricia Stirnemann (personal correspondence, 28 April
1992), however, assures me that neither the script nor the watermarks contradict a date as early as the second
quarter of s. xv. Pierre Pilatre (whose hand is but one of several in the codex) became a bachelor in medicine at
Paris in 1441, a master in 1444; he also apparently spent time in Reims. See WickersheimerfJacquart, 2:656.

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capitulorum huius libri. List of 31 capp. Explicit tabula huius breuis tractatus. F. 34r, later hand:
<TROTVLA. > Incipit tractatus magistre Trotule salernitane de sinthomatibus mulierum. Cvm
auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 42r: ... vt sunt cepe et folia et pastinace
domestice etc. Explicit Trotulla. New material follows: Ad minoracionem mamillarum ... constric-
tionem etc. Followed on f. 42r-v by various recipes for provoking the menses, etc. // F. 53r, in same
hand as earlier rubric: < TROTVLA. > ( 110 ) In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti. Amen. An-
other hand : Tabula ponitur in fine huius codicis. Et actor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi consti-
tutione ... F. 60v: ... vt sunt cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. Later hand: < TROTULA. >
< lncipit Trotula minor.> Vt a nobis de curatione mulierum ... F. 62v: Vn [sic] contingit quod
Trotula vocata fuit quasi magistra operis. On f. 68v text jumps from mid-U236 to mid-V265 ; conti-
nues in sequence through V280 (f. 70r), then ffV287-290, 294-296; at bottom of f. 70v text jumps to
V301 then breaks off in mid-text. Leaf torn out between ff. 70 and 71. F. 71r begins in mid-V243,
then VV244-250, 252-255, 258-260, 264, 308-310, 312. F. 72v: ... et mane lauet aqua tepida quia
debet lauare se in sera etc. Explicit Trotula maior et brevior. List of 26 capp. of LSM by different
hand. Explicit tabula Trotule minoris [sic]. F. 73r: Tabula Trotule maioris ... List of 65 capp. of
DCM and DOM. Explicit. Other contents: this codex is a veritable summa on generation, compris-
ing the anonymous Tractatus de sterilitate (here attributed to Jordanus de Turre); (' 11 ) Petrus de
Nadillis, De impregnacione mulieris; excerpts on fertility from Maynus de Mayneriis, Odo de Credo-
lio, and a brief 8-line extract on cures for sterility from pseudo-Albertus Magnus, De secretis mulie-
rum (f. 22v); (' 12 ) Johannes Pataranus, Regimen de conceptione in complexione flegmatica; Bernard de
Gordon (attributed), Traciatus de sterilitate; (' 13 ) anonymous treatise on venereal disease; excerpt
from Hippocratic Aphorisms; recipes on a variety of topics added by several hands. Described: Cat.
reg., p. 310. (' 14 )
89. =If--,-, MS lat. 8654, f. 32vb (s. XIV, France): LSM(excerpt, V74 et seqq.). Trotula major.
Quedam sunt mulieres inutiles ad conceptionem ... (explicit illegible). A 22-line excerpt, written into
a blank space by a later hand. (' 15) Other contents: a collection of formulae for letters, acts, etc.
(several with date 1306) ; medical and prognostic tracts; verses in Latin and French. Described : De
Renzi, Coll. sal. 5:126-7.
90. - , - , MS lat. 16089, ff. 113ra-115rb (s. )nn ex., France?): DOM 3. < Incipit summus
tractatus de ornatu mulierum. > [U]t ait Ypocrates in libro quem de scientia progosticorum edidit ...
F. 115rb: ... se muniant mulieres et decenter conseruent. Explicit tractatus necessarius de supplec-
tione pulcritudinis mulierum. Other contents: originally a separate pamphlet of 18 leaves containing
Pietro d' Abano, Liber physionomiae (written May 1295); it was later bound with several other
pamphlets in hands of s. xrv 1 with over 30 philosophical and natural philosophical texts. (' 16 ) Owner:
Sorbonne library (date of acquisition unknown). Described: Leopold Deslisle, Inventaire des manus-
crits de la Sorbonne conserves a la Bibliotheque Imperiale sous les numeros 15176-16718 du Ponds Latin
(Paris: Durand et Pedone-Lauriel, 1870); repr. in Inventaire des manuscrits laiins conserves d la
Bibliotheque Nationale sous les numeros 8823-18613 (Hildesheim and New York: Georg Olms, 1971),
p. 37. Cited: T-K 2 (1613).

(110) This same hand also rubricated chapter headings and marginal summaries through f. 6lr.
(111) Enrique MoNTERO CARTELLE, ed., Tractatus de sterilitate: An6nimo de Montpellier (s. XIV). Attribuido a A.
de Vilanova, R. de Moleris y J. de Turre, Lingi.iistica y Filologia, no. 16 (Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid
and Caja Salamanca y Soria, 1 993).
(112) Alberti Magni de secretis mulierum libellus (Amsterdam, 1740), p. 108. The Secreta passage was originally
extracted from the LSM ('IT'IT76, 78, and 78b).
(113) Luke E. DEMAITRE, Doctor Bernard de Cordon: Professor and Practitioner, Studies and Texts, 51 (Toronto:
Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1 980), pp. 85-89, 181-82, and 194-95.
(114) I have benefitted greatly from a detailed description of ms 88 made in 1975 by Dr. Luke Demaitre; my
thanks to him for sharing his notes with me.
(115) My thanks to Dr. Ran Barkal for checking this ms for me.
(116) See M. B. HAUREAu, <<Notice sur le numero 16089 des manuscrits Latin de la Bibliotheque Nationale, »
Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliotheque Nationale et aulres Bibliotheques 35 (1896), 209-239; M ss dates
3:742; Williams, <<Scholarly Career>> (n. 18 above), p. 131.

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91. ~, ~, MS lat. 16191, ff. 207va-218rb (s. xrv in., France): (1 17) standardized ensemble.
F. 207va: < Incipit liber de passionibus mulierum secundum dominam Trotulam. > [C]um auctor
uniuersitatis deus in prima mundi constitutione ... F. 211 vb : ... ut sunt cepe, pastinace domestice, et
similia. < Cura alia.> [U]t a nobis de curatione mulierum ... F. 212vb: Vnde contingit quod Trotula
uocata fuit quasi magistra operis. F. 215vb: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. <De palliatione bona.>
[U]t mulier suauissima et planissima ... F. 218rb: ... et mane lauet cum aqua tepida. <Explicit
Trotula. > Other contents : texts on practical medicine, including Practica Rogerii, Antidoiarius
Nicolai, Pomum ambre. Owner: Jacques de Padua, master of arts, medicine, and theology at Paris
(fl. 1342-1353); (1 18 ) bequeathed by him to the Sorbonne library. (' 19 ) Described: Delisle, lnventaire,
p. 45. Cited: Meyer.
92. ~, ~, MS lat. 16222, ff. 79va-87vb (s. xrv in., N. France) : standardized ensemble.
< Incipit liber de passionibus mulierum secundum Trobulam [sic].> Cvm auctor vniuersitatis deus
in prima mundi constitutione ... F. 83va: ... ut sunt cepe, pastinace domestice et silia [sic]. < Incipit
Trotula minor.> Ut a nobis de curatione mulierum ... F. 84rb: Vnde contingit quod Trotula vocata
fuit quasi magistra operis. F. 87ra : ... et cum eo manus fricabis. <De palliandis mulieribus. > Ut
mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ... Text breaks off abruptly at bottom of f. 87vb in 'IT276: ...
admisceatur cum ceteris. Hoc facto ab igne. Following leaves lost. Other contents of ff. 76r-87v
(which originally constituted a separate ms): John of Toledo, Libellus de conseruenda sanitate [i.e.,
pseudo-Aristotle, Se~retum secretorum]. Probably after it was given to the Sorbonne, it was bound
with various texts on natural philosophy, including works of Averroes, Albertus Magnus, and
Thomas Aquinas. Owner: Master Gerard of Utrecht (d. betw. 1326 and 1338); at his death, it was
bequeathed to the Sorbonne library. (' 20 ) Described: Deslisle, Inventaire, p. 48; George Lacombe,
Aristoteles Latinus, pars prima (BrugesjParis: Desclee de Brouwer, 1957), pp. 571-72. Cited: T-K 2
(1612).
93. ~, ~, MS nouv. acq. lat. 603, ff. 55rb-59rb (s. xm 1 , Italy?): (' 21 ) LSM 3; DOM 2.
< lncipit liber de sinthomatibus mulierum. > Cum actor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi constitu-
tione ... F. 56ra: new gathering begins with new, very tiny hand; this hand continues through
f. 59va. F. 58ra: Valent etiam et alia plurima. Et hec de singulis sufficiant. Followed by chapter on
determining sex of fetus: Nota ad probandum utrum masculum uel feminam conceperif ... Si autem
sinistro, feminam. F. 58rb: recipes for two unguents. F. 58va: [A]it Ypocras in libro quem de
prognosticorum sciencia composuit ... (modified preface; cf. ms 77). F. 59rb: ... et sic bene ornata ad
maritum accedat et hec de ornatu millierum [sic] dicta sufficiant. F. 59va: three additional cosmetic
recipes (in same hand). Other contents: Gynaecia Cleopatrae (fragments); (1 22 ) De passionibus mulie-
rum A; (1 23 ) other medical works. Described: Bibliotheque Nationale, Inventaire des nouvelles acquisi-
tions laiines, 1 :172. Cited: Meyer.
94. *Pommersfelden, Bibliothek der Grafen von Schonborn, HS 178 (2642) (olim LXII/178), ff.
124ra-132rb (s. xm ex.fxrv in., Italy): transitional ensemble. (' 24 ) Heading: Sancti spiritus adsit

(117) In the bottom margin of f. 214v, a different hand has added: << - •••••• scripsit hunc librum a"
d" m 0 ccc" ii 0 [or X 0 ?). >> My thanks to Patricia Stirnemann for this information.
(118) On Jacques de Padua, see Wickersheimer[Jacquart, 1:334 and 3:137.
(119) Delisle, Cabinet (cited n. 65 above), 2 :156.
(120) See M ss dates, 3 :703.
(121) Franyois AvRIL & Marie-Therese GoussET, with Claudia RABEL, Manuscrits enlumines d'origine italienne.
2. XIII' siecle (Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1984), p. 173.
(122) On the Gynaecia Cleopatrae, see n. 16 above.
(123) See n. 59 above.
(124) This unusual manuscript has actually conflated the transitional ensemble (Group B) with an early version
of the proto-ensemble for the LSM and DCM texts; it occasionally presents double readings, signaled with a vel
aliter (e.g., in 'IT'IT3, 155-56, and 159). In the DOM section, it also reflects influence from the revised ensemble,
agreeing almost entirely with that version's abbreviated set of chapters.

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nobis gratia. Trotula. Hie incipit Trotula. [C]vm actor vniuersitatis deus in prima constitutione
mundi ... A list of ten capp. appears on f. 124va between 1f1f28 and 29. F. 127va: ... vt cerebella sunt
pastinace domestice, cepe et huiusmodi. De curis mulierum. [U]t de curis mulierum ... F. 128ra:
Vnde contingit quod Trotula vocata fuit tamquam magistra huius operis ... F. 130va: ... et manus
inde fricentur. [S]icut ypocras testatur in libro pronosticorum, omnis qui medicine artis studio seu
gloriam seu delectabilem amicorum copiam consequi desiderat ratione sua adeo regulis
prud[f. 130vb]entum se muniat ne inhermis in singulis ad artem spectantibus videatur. Vt mulier
planissima et suauissima videatur ... Aside from absence of 1f1f289, 293, 299, 304 and 311, the end of
DOM is identical to revised ensemble. F. 132rb: ... et mense [sic] lauet cum aqua tepida. Followed
immediately by two additional recipes (as in ms 112): 1f Ad difficultatem urine ... ; 1f Ad paralisim ...
vsque ad terciam partem. Da bibere et statim recedet. EXPLICIT TROTULA. Other contents:
theoretical and practical medical texts, including several by authors associated with Salerno (Isaac,
De febribus; Antidotarium Nicholai with comm.; Giles of Corbeil, De urinis with comm.; Roger de
Baron, Praciica maior et minor; Copho, De modo medendi; Pomum Ambre; Philaretus, De pulsibus;
Compendium Salerni). Owner: belonged to Amplonius Ratinck in 1412 ( = MS Med. 28 in Amplo-
nius' inventory; cf. Schum, op. cit., and Handschri{tenerbe, 1 :213). Described: Wilhelm Schonath,
Katalog der H andschriflen der Grafiich von Schonborn 'schen Bibliothek zu Pommersfelden, typescript
catalogue, 4 vols. (Pommersfelden, 1951-52), vol. 2. See also Benedikt Ignatzek, <<Die medizinische
Literatur in der Bibliothek der Grafen von Schi:inborn in SchloB Pommersfelden >>, Inaugural-Disser-
tation (Pommersfelden, 1988), pp. 421-22. (' 25 )
95. *-, - , HS 197 (2815) (olim LXII/197), ff. 11ra-18rb (s. x1v 2 , Germany): proto..censemhle
(meretrices Group). Incipit liber de sinthomatibus [id est] de passionibus mulierum qui dicitur Tro-
tula quem due meretrices, scilicet mater et filia, ediderunt que circuibant diuersas terras experimen-
tando. Primo incipit Trotula mater [sic]. [C]vm auctor vniuersitatis dens. In prima origine mundi ...
LSM text includes two substantial additions: (1) Seniencia Alexandri de matrice inserted between
1f1f44 and 45 (f. 12ra-b); (2) within 1f74, a prolonged discussion on conception: Sunt etiam teste
Ypocras in temporibus que dicuntur iuueniles ... ut testantur medici, Alexander et alii (f. 13rb-va).
F. 15ra: ... augmentantia lac et sperma vt feniculus et similia. Incipit Trotula minor. [V]t de curis
mulierum compendiosa fiat traditio ... F. 16ra: Vnde contingit quod Trotula magistra fuit vocata
cum quedam puella debuit incidi propter ventositatem quasi~-de ruptura labora_r~t. et mirata fuit
quam plurimum Trotula. Fecit ergo hanc vocari ad se, et venire ad domum suam vt in secreto melius
cognoscetur causam egritudinis, qua cognita quod non ex inflatione uel ruptura fuerit sed ex ventosi-
tate matricem comprimente, fecit Trotula sibi balneum sedere in aqua ... F. 18rb: ... et inungat cum
inde manus. De palliatione. [V]t mulier planissima et suauissima ... 1f1f242, 243, and 247 of DOM (in
abbreviated form), then a remedy to clarify the voice and three to determine if a wounded man will
die, ending: ... et si tunc vomit, non euadet. Si non, euadet. Two more recipes then added in different
hands. Expliciunt Trotule et maior que fuit matris et minor que fuit filie. (Cf. mss 5 and 82 above for
the same version of this text.) Other contents: theoretical and practical medical texts, including
Johannes de Sancto Paulo, De conferentibus et nocentibus; later bound with Bartholomaeus' comms.
on Articella. Owner: belonged to Amplonius Ratinck in 1412 ( = MS Med. 75 in Amplonius' inven-
tory; cf. Schum, op. cit.). Described: Schonath, op. cil., vol. 2; cf. Ignatzek, pp. 423-24.
96. -*Praha, Knihovna Metropolitni Kapituli, Cod. M-2 (M-II) (Podlaha cat. 1355), ff.
214v-216v (ea. 1431, E. Europe): DOM2. [U)t ait Ypocras in principio pronosticorum ... (1 26 ) Folio
following f. 215 is unnumbered. F. 216v: ... et sic bene ornata facie et toto corpore ad virum accedat.
Hec de hiis sufficiant. Other contents: medical tracts, including works of Roger, Serapion, Petrun-
cellus, Copho; also includes De passionibus puerorum. Described: Ant. Podlaha, Soupis Rukopisil
Knihovny Metropolitni Kapitoly Prazske (Prague:. Ceske Akademie ved a Umeni [Czech Academy],
1922), pp. 259-60. Cited: T-K 2 (1613).

(125) My thanks to Dr. Klaus-Dietrich Fischer for bringing this work to my attention.
(126) For the same reading of << principio >> see mss 59 and 64.

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97. *-,-,Cod. M-18 (M-XVIII) (Podlaha cat. 1371), ff. 99r-122v (s. xiV 2 , E.' Europe): stan-
dardized ensemble. [C]vm auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi constitutione ... F. 109r: ... ut
sunt cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. Vt a nobis de curacione mulierum ... F. 111r: Vnde
contingit quod Trotula vocata fuit quasi magistra operis. F. 118r: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. Vt
mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ... F. 122v (1T305): ... Vnde laudo die et nocte maxime quando
debet coire cum alia quod sub lingua teneat. Other contents : tracts on natural philosophy and
practical medicine, including works of Nicholaus, Gualterus, Giles of Corbeil, Bernard de Gordon.
Described: Podlaha, pp. 278-9.
98. *-, - , Cod. M-20 (M-XX) (Podlaha cat. 1373), ff. 49rb-51r (s. xm med., Italy): DOM1.
Ut ait ypocras in libro suo quem de pronosticorum scientia composuit ... F. 51r: ... facie sua aqua
rosarum asparsa, ad uirum ... (end of text cut off at bottom margin). Other contents: Circa insians;
tracts on clysters; etc. Described: Podlaha, p. 279. Cited: T-K 2 (1613).
99. Reims, Bibiiotheque Municipale, MS 1002, ff. 251ra-257vb (s. XIII med., N. France): inter-
mediate ensemble. Trotula de ornatu mulierum. Cvm auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi
constitutione ... F. 253va: ... ut cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. Et [sic] de causis et curis
mulierum compendiosa fiat ... F. 254ra: Vnde contingit quod Trotula vocata fuit quasi magistra
operis ... F. 255vb: ... postea duo ouorum et exinde manus fricabis. Ut mulier suauissima et planis-
sima inueniatur ... F. 257vb : ... et mane lauet cum aqua tepida. <Explicit Trotula maior et minor
de secretis mulierum. > Other contents: Articella, Gerard of Berry's gloss on Viaticum, tracts on
drugs and weights, several practicae. Owner: Reims cathedral. Described: Cat. gen., 39/1:246-50.
Cited: Meyer; T-K 2 (516).
100. - , - , MS 1004, ff. 152ra-159va (s. xm 2 , France): standardized ensemble. < Incipit
liber de passionibus mulierum secundum Trotulam. > Cum actor uniuersitatis de us in prima mundi
constitutione .. ; F. 155ra: ... ut sunt cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. < Trotula minor.> Ut a
nobis de curatione mulierum ... F. 155vb: Unde contingit quod Trotula uocata fuit quasi magistra
operis ... F. 157vb: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. <De palliandis mulieribus. > Ut mulier suauissima
et planissima fiat ... F. 159va: ... et mane lauet cum aqua tepida. Explicit Trotula. Followed
immediately by Practica puerorum (inc.: Passiones puerorum adhuc-in cunabilis). Oth~ contents:
tracts on drugs. phlebotomy, prognostication, Rogerina maior ei minor. Described : Cat. gen., 39,
tome II, Part 1, pp. 254-57. Cited: Meyer; T-K 2 (1613, {jUt amabo de curatione >>).
101. *Rouen, Bibliotheque Municipale, MS 981 (1.26), ff. 127rb-138rb (s. xrv 1, France): stan-
dardized ensemble. Heading: Trotula. [Later hand: De passionibus mulierum.] Cum actor uniuer-
sitatis de us in prima mundi constitutione ... F. 131 va: ... ut sunt cepe pastinace domestice et similia.
Cura. Ut a nobis de curatione mulierum ... F. 132va-b: ... unde contingit quod Trotula uocata fuit
quasi magistra operis. F. 135vb: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. <De palliandis mulierum. > Ut mulier
suauissima et planissima fuerit ... F. 138rb (1T310): ... ungere ungat mulier faciem suam. Modern
hand: De passionibus mulierum. Explicit. Added in lower margin by original hand (1T1T311-312):
Aliud. Recipe leuistici ... et mane lauet cum aqua tepida. Other contents : medical texts including
Circa instans, Antidotarium Nicholai, Practica magisiri Rogeri; Tabula magistri Salerni. Owner:
Saint-Ouen de Rouen. Described: Cat. gen., n.s. 1:247-&. Cited: T-K 2 (284); Spitzner.
102. *Salzburg, Erzabtei St. Peter, MS b V 22, ff. 149r-162v (ea. 1456, Leipzig): standardized
ensemble. < Incipit liber de passionibus mulierum secundum Trotulam. > Cvm actor vniuersitatis
deus prima mundi constitutione ... F. 154v: ... ut sunt cepe, pastinace domestica et similia. Cura. Vt
a nobis de curatione mulierum ... F. 155v: Vnde contingit quod Trocula uocata fuit quasi magistra
operis ... F. 159r: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. Ut mulier sanissima [sic] et planissima fiat ... F. 162v:
... et mane cum aqua tepida lauet. <Explicit Arnaldus de noua uilla. > Other contents : various
medical tracts, including works of Roger de Baron, Serapion, Philaretus, Johannes de Sancta Paulo,
Isaac Judeus. A list of 25 impediments to conception is given on f. 1v. Scribe and probable owner:
written in part by Erhard Manseer de Salina (i.e., Hallein near Salzburg, d. after 1495). Described:

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Gerold Hayer, Die deutschen Handschriften des Mittelalters der Erzabtei St. Peter zu Salzburg, Ver-
zeichnisse der deutschen Handschriften osterreichischer Bibliotheken, Reihe Ill, Bd. I (Vienna,
1982), pp. 276-78.
103. *-, Museum Carolino-Augusteum, MS 2171, ff. 180r-187v (' 27 ) (s. 15 med., S. Germany/
Austria): DOMi. < Incipit tractatus breuis et vtilis. De decoracione et ornatu mulierum: Reichardi
medici experti. > Ut ait Ypocras in libro suo quem de pronosticorum scientia ... F. 187v: ... debet
huiusmodi puluere aspergere ut redoleat. Other contents : medical texts, including Arnald of Villa-
nova, Aphorismi de ingeniis curativis nocitivis et preservativis morborum ; and Summa pauperum of
Petrus Hispanus. Described: HMML inventory (Project no. 11624).
104. San Marino, California, Huntington Library, HM 64, ff. 28va-34rb {' 28 ) (s. xv ex.,
England) : intermediate ensemble (2nd half). Heading: Hie incipit Trotula minor de ornatu. De
fessuriis [sic] labiorum. Sunt quidam [sic] que fissuras labiorum paciuntur (W184) ... Due to loss of a
leaf, text breaks off after f. 29vb in '11'221 (De sorditaie aurium): ... sane infunde et obturetur. F. 30ra:
De ornatu. Ut mulier suauissima et planissima inveniatur ... F. 34rb: ... et mane lauet cum aqua
tepida. <Explicit Trotula. > Several words are glossed interlinearly in Middle English on ff. 31r and
32v. Several recipes on hair care added on f. 31ra-b between WW271 and 272; on f. 32rb-va between
'IT'IT293 and 293a are added recipes for cure of fistula (said to have been invented by << a monk of
Aluneto •>), pustules of the face, leprosy, redness of the eyes, and dogs afflicted with rabies. Other
contents : ff. 120r-121 v: approx. 55 gyn. recipes in Latin, citing an authority for each ; astrological
and medical texts in Latin and English. Owners : << Iohannes eccam >>, << Iohn Han( ?) >>, << Iohn wall-
ton>>, << Hughe drapere merchaunt >>, << Iohn Bosgrove. >> Described: C. W. Dutschke et al., Guide to
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntingion Library, 2 vols. (San Marino, California:
Huntington Library, 1989), 1:130-39.
105. *Schlagl, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 102, ff. 109r-133v (s. xv2 , Austria [probably at Schlagl]):
standardized ensemble (for most of the text of LSM) and revised ensemble (for the remain-
der). (' 29 ) F. 109r: Excerpta rotule [sic] secuntur causa. Cum autem vniuersitatis deus .. After this
incipit, the text begins with '11'7 : Aliquando mulieribtis· deficiunt menstrua quia in corpore earum ...
On f. 118r text jumps from W128 to '11'131, where it ends: .. :·ut cerebella, pastinace domesticeet
similia. Then follow 'IT'IT129-131 (i.e., repeating '11'131), the latter ending (on f. 1tSv) with the odd
phrase : ... ex ea cerebrum repletur hundanciam ( ?) cum toto cerebro nequeat contiuel ( ?). < Vt
cognoscatur qua causa laborant mulieres. > Ut de curis mulierum ... F. 121r: Vnde accidit quod
Trotula notata fuit tamquam magistra huius operis ... F. 128r: ... et cum eo ma[n]us fricabis. <Vt
mulier suauissima > et planissima fiat ... F. 133v: ... et de mane lauet cum aqua tepida. Expellit
Trotula. Followed by two additional recipes for vaginal constrictives: Vt corrupta quasi virginem
reddat. Recipe gallarum ... et sanguis fluere incipiet. Other contents: over 40 medical texts, many of
which are excerpts from larger works. Described: handlist of contents of Codex Plagensis 102 made
by HMML staff (HMML Project no. 3120).
106. *Sevilla, Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina, (' 30 ) MS 7-4-25, f. 128ra-b (s. xv 1 , Italy):
revised ensemble (fragment). Heading: Incipit liber de egritudinibus pudibudorum [sic] mulierum
et eonim-remediis. Cum autor vniuersitatis dens in prima mundi origine ... F. 128rb ('IT12): ...
Confferunt etiam omnia diureticam eis ut spica nardi, feniculus, petrosilinum, apii, et. Followed on

(127) This is the third, most recent foliation.

(128) The leaf that should have followed f. 29 is missing.
(129) This copy of the revised ensemble most closely resembles that found in ms 32, where revisions from the
original DCM have not yet been added.
(130) What may be an excerpt from the LSM (or perhaps its original source, Trota or Copho) is found in Sevilla,
Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina, MS 5-1-45, f. 167v, inc.: Conceptio impeditur tarn vitio viri ( = V129). The ms
(which I have not yet examined) was purchased by Fernard Colomb in Lyon, September 1535. See Beaujouan,
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f. 128va-b by miscellaneous recipes on care of hair: De curis capilorum. Ad faciendum capillos uel
pillos nigros ... et unge caput sed primo terre gallas. Other contents : medical texts, particularly on
surgical matters, including many by late medieval Italian authors; many recipes. Owner: acquired
by Fernand Columbus (1488-1539) in Padua, 10 April 1531. (1 31 ) No published description, but see
Beaujouan, passim for contents.
107. *-,-,MS 83-6-38, ff. 43vb-49vb (ea. 1300, N. Italy): standardized ensemble. Incipit
liber de passionibus mulierum secundum Trotulam. Cvm auctor uniuersitatis deus in prima mundi
constitutione ... F. 46rb: ... ut sunt cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. Ut a nobis de curatione ... F.
46vb: Vnde contingit quod Trotula uocata fuit quasi magistra operis. F. 48va: ... et cum eo manus
fricabis. De palliandis mulieribus. Ut mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ... F. 49vb: ... et mane
lauet cum aqua tepida. Explicit Trotula. Other contents: medical treatises by Platearius, Gualterus
Agilon, Gerard of Montpellier, Rhazes; it was later bound with works of Roger Baron and Johannes
de Sancta Paulo. No published description, but see Beaujouan, passim for contents.
108. #Sheffield, Central Library, Jackson Collection, MS 1302, ff. 43v-44v, 46r-v (s. xv ex.,
England): DOM3. F. 43v: Incipit tractatus de ornatu facici [sic]. [U]t ait Ypocras in libro quem de
sciencia pronosticorum edidit ... durat per duos annos. Other contents : medical and astrological
texts. Described: KerfPiper, 4:266-69. (1 32 )
109. Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, MS Pal. lat. 1084, ff. 115rb-125va (s. XIII ex.fxiv in.,
Italy?): intermediate ensemble. F. 115rb, heading in top margin (later hand): Sequitur Summa
Trotule. Title (later hand): Trotula Mulierum. < Incipit Trotula. > Cvm auctor uniuersitatis deus in
prima mundi constitutione ... F. 119rb: ... ut cepe, pastinace domestice et similia. <Sequitur de
curis mulierum. > De curis mulierum compendiosa fiat traditio ... F. 120ra: Unde contingit quod
Trotula uocata fuit quasi magistra operis ... F. 122vb: ... et exinde manus fricabis. <Vt mulier sit
plana.> Vt mulier suauissima et planissima inueniatur ... F. 125va ('rr310b, Ad pannum faciei): ...
inuolutum et urina bene madefactum et cetera ut supra. Explicit. The LSM section has been check-
ed against a copy of LSM 1 by a later reader, who added variant readings interlinearly and in the
margins. Other contents: various medical tracts (several of which are Salernitan), including the
Practica maior and Practica minor of Roger de Baron. Described : Ludwig Schuba, Die medizinischen
Handschri{ten der Codices Palatini Latini in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek. Kataloge der Universitdtsbi-
bliothek Heidelberg, Band I (Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert, 1981), pp. 13-14.
110. - , - , MS Pal. lat. 1164, ff. 96vb-99va (s. XIII ex.jx1v in., France): intermediate
ensemble. F. 96vb: <Trotula.> Cvm auctor uniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 99va:
... ut cepe, pastinace domestice, eruce et similia. Vt de curis mulierum compendiosa nobis traditio ...
Text breaks off in 'rr144 at bottom of f. 99vb: Vt uiri extenuentur facimus eis ... Following leaves
lost. Space left for rubrics but none inserted. Other contents: Constantinus Africanus, Viaticum;
Antidotarium Nicolai; commentary on Philaretus, De pulsibus; Richard Anglicus, Anatomia; recipes
for provoking the urine. Described: Schuba, pp. 121-22.
111. - , - , MS Pal. lat. 1165, ff. 39rb-40vb (s. xm in., Germany): DOM2. Sicut ait Ypocras in
pronosticis ... F. 40vb: ... et sic ornata facie bene et toto corpore accedat ad uirum. Followed
immediately byfour additional recipes: Aliud ad constringendum ( = 'rr309), Vt mulier uirum odio
habeat, Aliud medicamen ad faciem colorandam, and Aliud experimentum ad dealbandam faciem. Other
contents of this ms: Constantinus Africanus, Viaticum. Contents of rest of codex: various treatises
on practical and theoretical medicine. Cited: T-K 2 (1480). Described: Schuba, pp. 122-24.
112. - , - , MS Pal. lat. 1253, ff. 166ra-178rb (s. XIII 2 , S. France, perhaps at Montpellier):
revised ensemble. F. 166ra: < Incipit Trotula. > Cvm actor universitatis deus in prima mundi

(131) See Guy BEAUJOUAN, « Fernand Colomb et l'Europe intellectuelle de son temps,» Journal des Savants (oct.-
dec. 1960), 145-59; and Beaujouan, p. 633.
(132) My thanks to Kate Cooper for confirming important readings from this manuscript for me.

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constitutione ... F. 17lrb: ... ut cerebello, pastinace domestice, cepe et similia. <De cognitione
mulieris frigide et calide. > Vt de curis mulierum ... F. 172va: Vnde contingit quod Trotula uocata
fuit quasi magistra operis. F. 176ra: ... et ex eodem manus fricabis. <Ad remouendum pilos de
pectine. > Vt mulier suauissima et plana fiat ... F. 178rb: ... et mane lauet se cum aqua tepida.
Additional capp. Ad difficultalem urine and Ad paralisim (as in ms 94), ending: ... aque-et da bibere,
et statim recedet. <Explicit Trotula. > Then follow new capp. : Hec sunt ea aut continebantur in
margin e. Ad faciem dealbandam ... per cassation em extracto, non plus. Additional recipes by later
hand at bottom of ff. 176r-178r. Other contents: more than 40 other medical tracts, including many
by Salernitan (Master Salernus, Roger, Johannes de Sancto Paulo) and Montpellierain writers.
Described : Schuba, pp. 292-99.
113. - , - , MS PaL lat. 1304 (3rd ms of 5 in codex), ff. 38r-45v, 47r-48v, 46r-v, 51r-v, 49r-50v
(s. xnr 2 , Italy): standardized ensemble. F. 38ra: < Incipit Trotula de secreta [sic] mulierum. >
Cvm auctor uniuersitatis deus in prima mundi constitutione ... F. 43vb: ... ut sunt cepe et pastinace
domestice et si milia. <De muliere calide a que [sic] frigide. > Et a nobis de curatione mulierum
compendiosa ... F. 44vb: Vnde contigit quod Trotula fuit uocata quasi magistra operis ... F. 46va: ...
et cum eo manus fricabis bene. <Vt mulier fiat swauissima [sic].> Ut mulier suauissima et planis-
sima ... F. 50vb: ... et mane lauet cum aqua tepida. Explicit Trotula. Deo gratias. The rubrics were
added later, in the 14th or 15th century by a German hand; many do not correspond precisely with
the chapter contents. Annotations by Johannes Spenlin alongside passages having to do with obste-
trics and neonatal care. Other contents of this ms (the third in the codex) : six other medical texts,
including Alfanus and other Salernitan writers. Remaining contents : tracts on theoretical and prac-
tical medicine, including several by Constantinus Africanus, as well as Muscio's Gynaecia and Pessa-
ria (ff. 73r-89r, 90r-90v, and 68r-69r); (1 33 ) and a collection of gynecological recipes perhaps of
Salernitan provenance (ff. 69r-71 v). ( 134) Owners: whole codex (comprising 5 mss of s. xn 2 and
s. xrn) owned in s. xv by Johannes Spenlin (d. 1458), a doctor of theology and medicine who had
studied at Paris and Heidelberg; he in turn gave the codex to Kurfiirst Friedrich I of Heidelberg ea.
1455. (' 35 ) Described : Schuba, pp. 393-396.
114. - , - , MS Pal. lat. 1382, ff. 46v-48v (s. xrv 2 , SJV Germany): proto-ensemble (LSM
only). F. 46v: < Incipit Trotula. De infirmatibus mulierum. Et curis earumdenr> <C>vm auctor
uniuersitatis deus. In prima mundi constitutione ... F. 48v: Vt sunt cepe, pastinace domestice et
similia. The text is abbreviated and somewhat rewritten at points (e.g., the deletion of the latter half
of '11'2, all but one phrase of '11'3, and most of '11'4). Omitted altogether are '11''11'82-88 and 123 (i.e., the
material on contraceptives and fetal development), '11'114 (on signs for determining the sex of the
fetus), the latter half of '11'118 and all of 11'122 (i.e., the obstetrical uses of the magnet and the hawk's
nest), and 11'11'124-128 (the sections on neonatal care). The Trotula is found in the second of seven mss
now comprising this codex. Other contents: ms 1: Alkabitius; ms 2 (in which the Trotula appears):
tracts on minerals, Latin-German glossary, recipes and tracts on materia medica, fragment of Cons-
tantinus Africanus, De coitu, (1 36 ) alchemy; ms 3 : tract on arboriculture, Taddeo Alderotti on medi-
cinal waters and colors; ms 4: Thomas of Cantimpre's De natura rerum, Albertus Magnus's De

(133) On Muscio, see n. 64 above.

(134) This is the sole copy of this text I have yet identified. It follows Muscio's Pessaria immediately, with no
rubric to signal the beginning of a new text: << Si aliqua mulier non impregnetur propter malos humores, purgetur.
Nichil ad hoc utilius quam theodoricon nostrum, yerapigra, diamart .... Item [se. ad secundinam deponendam].
Secundinas excludit, constrictionem matricis resoluit, menstruis imperat: succus arthemesie, mirre mixtus et
matrici suppositus. AMEN.>> The only named authorities are <<Macer>>, Hippocrates, Diascorides, Appollodorus,
and Galen << in libro megategni. ''
(135) On Spenlin, see Paul LEHMANN, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskaialoge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Band 1:
Die Bistiimer Konstanz und Chur (Munich: Beck, 1918; repr. 1969), pp. 268-73; WickersheimerjJacquart, 2:486;
and Schuba, p. xxxv. Spenlin also owned MS Pal. lat. 1190 (not 1170 as cited by Schuba on p. xxxv), an
allegorical Liber medicinalis interpreting the Church as the body of Christ.
(136) On the De coitu, see n. 71 above.

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passionibus aeris; ms 5: tracts on waters, experimenta, pulses, weights; ms 6 (an. 1458): pseudo-
Albertus Magnus, Secreta mulierum, arboriculture ; ms 7 : Albucasis, Liber servitoris. At least mss 2
and 7 were joined by ea. 1400, when a contents list was added at the beginning of ms 7 (f. 199r)
where the LSM is referred to as Trotula mulierum. Owner: Palatine library, where the Ordinarius of
Medicine of the University of Heidelberg, Martin Rentz (d. 1503), added another table of contents
(f. ar-v). (1 3 "1') Described: Ludwig Schuba, Die Quadriviums-Handschriften der Codices Palatini Latini
in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek. Kataloge der Universitiitsbibliothek Heidelberg, Band II (Wiesbaden:
Ludwig Reichert, 1 992), pp. 125-33.
115. -,-,MS Vat. lat. 4485, ff. 67r-78v (s. XIII med., France): proto-ensemhle. (1 38) F. 67r:
Cum auctor uniuersitatis a prima mundi origine ... F. 73r: ... ut cepe, pastinace et similia. Et [sic] de
curis mulierum compendiosa fit traditio ... F. 74v: Vnde quia Trota fuerit magistra notata ... F. 77v
(11"235) : ... et minget uelit nolit. Si uero non, non. <De pilis in muliere abstrahendis. > Vt ergo
mulier planissima et suauissima fiat ... 11"11"242, 243, 247, 248, 250, 252, 253, 258, 261, 262, 263, 264,
265, 268, 270, 271; closing on f. 78v with 11"11"219 and 218 from DCM: ... teneat pedes uel locum
pacientem super fumum, et uidetis uermes quasi pilos in aqua cadentes. (1 39) Explicit. A later hand
has added recipes in the bottom margins of ff. 67r, 67v, 68v, and 74v. Other contents: various
medical texts, including those of Maurus, Roger, and Richardus Anglicus (including his De ornatu).
Described: Florio, Inventarium manuscriptorum latinorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae (Vatican, 1613),
5:289-90.
116. *Wien, Osterreichisch-e Nationalbibliothek, MS 5388, ff. 43ra-63rb (s. xv 1 , E. Europe): (1 40 )
standardized ensemble. Dum [sic] actor vniuersitatis deus in prima constitutione ... F. 5ira: ...
cepe, pastinate domestice et similia. Et a nobis de curacione mulierum ... F. 52vb: Vnde conuenit
quod Trocula vocata fuerit quasi magistra aperis [sic] ... F. 58va: ... cum eo manus fricabis. Ut
mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ... F. 63rb: ... et mane lauet cum aqua tepida. Explicit Trotula
de egretudinibus mulierum et earum curis scriptum perillustris. Other contents: Nicholaus, Antidota-
rium, plus tracts on practical medicine and drugs in Latin and German. Described : Academia
Caesarea Vindobonensis, Tabulae codicum manu scriptorum praeter graecos et orientales in Bibliotheca
Palatina Vindobonensi asservatorum, 11 vols. (Vienna: CaroliGeroldi filius, 1864-1912), 3:114. Cited:
Spitzner.
117. *Wiesbaden, Landesbibliothek, MS 56, ff. 56rb-59rb (s. xv med., Germany ( 141 ) ) : LSM3
(excerpts) and DOM2 (excerpts). Nota aliqua de Trotulis mulierum et utiliora excerpta ab eisdem.
Menstrua si debito tempore contingant et ordine ... F. 58va: ... lapis qui ad idem valet. Then new
recipe added : Ruta etiam domestica .. . uel aqua distemperata et propinata. Margin : De facie
ornanda. Faciem suam hoc modo ornabit. ... F. 59rb: ... et bene ornata ad virum secure accedit.
Then new recipe added : Ad dentes dealbandum ... cum aqua nominata et linea panno dentes fortiter
fricabis. Expliciunt meliora excerpta de Trotulis mulierum. Sometimes reworked text of LSM
U1f4-121 (less 'ffU74-79) and DOM 11"11"272-279, 280i, 281, 283, 294, 302-305f. Preceded by Rhazes,
Practica puerorum (ff. 49vb-50va) and anonymous (here attributed to Raymond de Moleriis), De

(137) According m Schuba, the whole volume was owned by Matthias Widmann von Kemnat (1429-1476), who
earned a baccalaureate in canon law from Heidelberg in 1465 and later served as court chaplain for Kurfiirst
Friedrich I von der Pfalz. According to Ute von Bloh, however, Kemnat owned only the Secreta mulierum
pamphlet. See Ute von BLoH, << 'ostis oblivionis et fundamentum memoriae' : Buchbesitz und Schriftgebrauch des
Mathias von Kemnat, >> in G. Althoff, et al., eds., Wissen filr den Hof (Munich, 1994).
(138) Ms 115 is closely related to the Erfurt group (mss 22, 37, and 85).
(139) This is the same sequence of DOM and DCM chapters as_found in mss 22, 37 and 85 (the Erfurt Group).
(140) The date cited in the catalogue, 1444, applies only toff. 84r-134v. See Franz UNTERKIRCHER, Die datierten
Handschri{ten der osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek uon 1401 bis 1450, pt. 1 (Katalog der datierten Handschriflen
in lateinischer Schrift in Osterreich, vol. 2) (Vienna: Hermann Bohlaus, 1971), p. 142.
(141) One part of the manuscript (originally foliated separately) was written in 1403 in Cologne. Another text
records the lectures given by Johannes Dorp of Leyden in Paris later that same year, though it does not claim to
be a direct transcript.

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sterilitate mulierum (ff. 51 va-56ra). ( 142 ) Other contents: tracts on medical theory and practice.
Described: Gottfried Zedler, Die Handschrifien der Nassauischen Landesbibliothek zu Wiesbaden
(Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1931; repr. NendelnfLiechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, Wiesbaden: Otto
Harrassowitz, 1968), pp. 65-69. Cited: Spitzner; T-K 2 (926).
118. Winchester, Winchester College, Warden and Fellows Library, MS 26, ff. 42va-51 vb
(s. XIII ex.jxiv in., England): intermediate ensemble. ( 1401) F. 42va: Cvm auctor uniuersalitatis
[sic] deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 46bis: upper outer quarter of leaf cut out; f. 46bisfva: ..... pe
pastinace .... uel [sic] mulierum compen ..... fiat traditio ... F. 47vb: Vnde contingit quod Trocula
uocata fuit tanquam magistra operis ... F. 50ra: ... admisce postea uero oua et mundificabitur
manus. 'IT Vt mulier suauissima et planissima inueniatur ... Ends abruptly at bottom of f. 51 vb in
'IT309h (Ad faciem dealbandam): ponatur in uase uitreo et di-. Loss of two leaves (the inner bifolium
of the quire) after f. 51. Two later hands have added frequent, sometimes grotesque sketches in the
margins. Other contents: works on surgery, prognostication, and medical praxis, including several
by Salernitan authors. Described: KerJPiper, 4:619-21.
119. *Wolfenbuttel, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, MS 784 Helmst. (von Heinemann 875), ff.
97r-120v (s. xv med., Germany): revised ensemble. [F. 97r, later hand: Incipit Trotula.] [C]vm
auctor vniuersitatis deus in prima mundi origine ... F. 106r: ... ut cepe, pastinace et similia. Ut a
nobis de curatione mulierum ... F. 108v: Unde contingit Trocula vocata fuerit quasi magistra operis
... F. 115r: ... cum eo manus fricabis. Ut mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ... F. 120v: ... et mane
lauet cum aqua tepida. Aliud. Explicit Trotula. Other contents: Regimen puerorum (f. 1r-36v); capp.
from William of Saliceto on postpartum difficulties (f. 89r-v); various texts on practical and theore-
tical medicine, and on natural philosophy. Owners: Johannes de Nemode (his name appears on f.
1r); Sigismund Gotzkircher (ea. 1410-1475). (' 44) Described: Otto von Heinemann, Die Handschri{ten
der herzoglischen Bibliothek zu Wolfenbiittel, part 1, vol. 2: Die Helmstedter Handschrifien 2 (Wolfen-
buttel: Julius Zwissler, 1886; repr. Frankfurt a. M.: Vittorio Klostermann, 1965), pp. 215-17. Cited:
Spitzner.
120. *Wroclaw (Breslau), Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, MS 2022 (olim R 291 ; I F 184), ff.
153ra-164ra (s. xiu 2 , Germany): standardized ensemble. c<::; Incipit liber de passionibus mulierum
secundum Trotam. > (' 45) [C]vm actor vniuersitatis deus in prima constitutione-: .. F. 157va: ... vt
sunt cepe, pastinate domestice et similia. < Incipit Trotula minor. Ut mulier concipiat. > Vt a nobis
de curatione mulierum ... F. 158va: Vnde contingit quod Trotula uocata fuit quasi magistra operis ...
F. 161 va: ... et cum eo manus fricabis. Vt mulier suauissima et planissima fiat ... F. 164ra: ... et
mane lauet cum aqua tepida. Explicit Trotula cum Trota. Many <<nota,> marks in margins. Other
contents: ff. 153-164 originally an independent fascicle; later bound with a large German medical
compendium. ( 146) Owner: Johannes Medici alias Patzker, master of arts from Paris, provost and
canon of Sanctus Johannes Maior, and cantor of the church of the Holy Cross of Wroclaw had the
volume assembled, decorated and resewn; it later passed to the Dominican church of Wroclaw.

(142) On the Tractalus de sleriliiate, see n. 111 above. It was because of the presence of this text earlier in the ms
that the-scribe chose to omit LSM 'IT'IT74-79 on aids for fertility; cf. f. 58ra where he signalled the omission: de ista
materia requiris supra curialia in tractatu de sterilitate mulierum.
(143) Ms 118 shares many peculiar readings with ms 9. See n. 8 above.
(144) On Gotzkircher, see Werner DRESSENDORFER, << Gotzkircher, Sigismund, '>in VL 3 :202-4; and Margaret R.
ScHLEISSNER, <<A Fifteenth-Century Physician's Attitude Toward Sexuality: Dr. Johann Hartlieb's Secreta
mulierum Translation,>> in Joyce A. SALISBURY, ed., Sex in the Middle Ages (New York: Garland, 1991), pp.
110-25, who identifies Gotzkircher as an owner. Schleissner suggests (p. 118) that this ms served as the basis for
the German translation of Gotzkircher's friend Johannes Hartlieb, made ea. 1460-65 (Germ2). The latter, howe-
ver, is clearly based on the standardized ensemble and could not have derived from the defective text of the
revised ensemble found in ms 119.
(145) According to description by Katherine Tachau (personal communication). Rubric is illegible on film.
(146) On this German medical compendium, see C. KDLz and E. KDLZ-TRossE, edd., Das Breslauer Arzneibuch:
R. 291 der Stadtbiblioihek. I. Teil: Text (Dresden: Fried rich Marschner, 1908).

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Described: late s. 19 handwritten description of Rhedigeriana mss 1-502 by Moritz Adolf Guttmann
(published by Cranz [n. 20 above], Reel 332F).
121. *-,-,MS III.F.lO, ff. 113rb-125rb (s. xv, eastern Europe): DCM2, LSM3, and DOM
2. Title: lncipit practica Trottule solernitane [sic] mulieris et primo cognoscendum que mulier ex
frigiditate uel caliditate laboret. Ut de curis mulierum ... F. 114va: Vnde contigit quod Trotta
uocata fuit tamquam magistra ... F. 117vb (1T232): ... et pone acetum inferius et liberabitur, etc.
Explicit practica Trottule mulieris solernitane de curis mulierum. Deo gratias. F. 118ra (no head-
ing) : Cvm auctor vniuersitatis de us in prima mundi constitutione ... F. 122va : ... ad idem ualet et
alia plurima et hec de sinthomatibus mulierum dicta sufficiant. Explicit Trotula minor [sic]. Incipit
ornatus mulierum. Ut mulier appareat plana et sine pilis ... F. 125ra: ... et sic ornata facie et toto
corpore ad virum accedat. Three additional recipes added (Ad constringendum uuluam, Ad exstrin-
gendam libidinem, and Contra discoloracionem corporis), ending f. 125rb: ... in primo curat sicut
probauimus. Explicit ornatus mulierum. Other contents: pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Secreta muli?rum
(ff. 106r-113r); treatises on practical medicine, including works of Raby Moyses (i.e., Maimonides),
Johannes de Sancta Amando, and Thomas de Wratislavia. C47 ) Owner: << Aus der Bibliothek der
Corporalis Christi Kirche zu Breslau. )) Described: handwritten catalogue. Cited: Spitzner.
122. *Wiirzburg, Universitatsbibliothek, M. p. med. q. 2, ff. 55ra-57rb (s. xm 2 , Germany):
DOM 2. Capitula ornatus mulierum. [List of 39 chapters.] Prologus. F. 55rb: Liber de ornatu
rnulierum incipit. Vt ait Ypocras. Artis medicine studio seu gloriam seu delectabilem amicorum
copiam consequi desiderans, rationem suam prudentum regulis adeo munire studeat ne in singulis ad
artem medicine spectantibus inermis uideatur. Hinc est quod mulierum familiaritatem habere desi-
derans huius libelli contemptio non sit. De balneis. Vt ergo mulier planissima uideatur ... F. 57rb: ...
et sic bene ornata ad uirum accedat. Followed on ff. 57rb-va by several recipes for making a woman
appear a virgin, etc. Other contents: pseudo-Cleopatra, Gynaecia, with new material added (ff.
57vb-62rb); (1 48 ) other medical texts, including several by Salernitan authors. Partially described:
Ignaz Schwarz, Die medizinischen Handschrifien der koniglichen Universitiitsbibliothek in Wiirzburg.
Beschreibendes Verzeichnis mii lilerarhistorischen Anmerkungen (Wurzburg: A. Stubers, 1907), pp. 18,
20-21, 24, 38-39, 42-43, 56-57, 58-59. ~. .

(d suiure) Monica H. GREEN

REG INBERT-HANDSCHRIFTEN
MIT EINEM NEUFUND J]'; KLOSTER EINSIEDELN.

Die mittelalterliche Literatur gewahrt uns im Unterschied zur antiken die Chance, die Dik-
tier-, Schreib- oder Herausgebertatigkeit eines Gelehrten oder Literaten im Spiegel seiner
Handschriften zu verfolgen, ja ihm geradezu iiber die Schulter zu sehen, wenn sich Entwiirfe,
erste Fassungen oder Reinschriften mit Korrekturen o.a. erhalten haben. Den echten oder
vermeintlich echten Autographen mittelalterlicher Autoren wurde daher mit Recht seit langer
Zeit erhohte Aufmerksamkeit von Seiten der Schriftforschung, Philologie und Bildungsge-

(147) On Thomas of Wroclaw, see Theodore James ANTRY, A Critical Edition of the 'Practica medicinalis' of
Thomas of Wroclaw, Premontre Bishop of Sarepta (1297-c. 1378), Studia Copernicana XXVII (Wrodaw, etc.:
Polish Academy of Sciences, 1989).
(148) On the Gynaecia Cleopatrae, see n. 16 above.
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