[split] Robert Fludd, Integrum morborum mysterium (1631)

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From: The Testament of Solomon, edited from manuscripts at Mount Athos, Bologna, Holkham Hall, Jerusalem, London, Milan, Paris and Vienna by McCown, Chester Charlton
About MS "V" Bologna, Library of the University, MS No. 3632; 475 ff., paper, cm. 21.9x29.6; XV cent.; written by a physician, John of Aro (or the son of Aro, or Aron); ff. 436v—441v; dated (f. 441v) December 14, 1440. Unpublished.
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The contents of the codex are instructive both as to the medical practice and the religious beliefs of the Middle Ages, for they include all sorts of pseudo-scientific biological information, pages of medico-magical formulae, partly in cryptography, and long astrological treatises. The codex is rendered unique by its cryptography and by the large number of illustrations, poorly drawn and highly colored, including drawings of animals and plants, and magical and astrological figures.

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58r  A mermaid on the sea, or lizard-woman on land (difficult to tell from microfilm) at a table, perhaps wearing phylacteries against the evil eye. Below are women’s names (Μαρία, Εἰρήνη, Χριστίνα, Κατερίνα κλπ.).
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378r-379r  [...] Many pages follow of mostly or exclusively images, mostly of plants (incl. the mandrake again on 403v); quite beautiful.
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420v  Apparently the Wheel of Fortune.

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