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ff. 1-134v. [Henry Daniel] Liber Uricrisiarum. Incipit: Uryne is as mekyll for to sayne in Anglish as on in þe reynes Reyns freynsh Renes latyn lendis in Anglish. Explicit: and fordone prowe exces of the malis of þe matere and of the maladye. Explicit liber uricrisiarum et cetera. [S]ic ergo cunctorum tradidi doctrinas eorum/ Quos reperivi vel quos reperire petivi . . . Laus tibi unigenite qui labor [sic] explicit iste/ Tu qui eterne manes hunc conservare digneris. Explicit liber uricrisiarum ex ex [sic] latino in vulgare editus a Fratre I [rubric left incomplete?]. English. Kaeppeli, SOPMA 1747. Thorndike and Kibre, col. 1608. Henry Daniel, Liber Uricrisiarum or Dome of Urines, an English compilation based on the Latin of Constantinus Africanus, itself a translation of Isaac Judaeus; see R. H. Robbins, "Medical Manuscripts in Middle English," Speculum 45 (1970) 399 footnote 14. The text in HM 505 has the Latin prologue, Bk. 1 (4 chapters), Bk. 2 (said in the prologue to comprise 17 chapters, but with 18 in the manuscript, numbered 1-12, 10, 7, 77-79, 81), Bk. 3 (said in the prologue to comprise 20 chapters, but with 30 in the manuscript, numbered 1-21, 23-24, 26-30, 32-33); the Latin verse epilogue gives the date of composition as 1379. Within the text are 2 English poems: in Bk. 2, chapter 6, f. 60v, "Tred eke the kennyth/ Sonday whate letter on rennyth . . . While þou lyuist in erthe. Nascitur proprie [?] Nos et Garlandus," for which see Schuler, n. 553 and Hanna, "Addenda," n. 62; the second English poem, in Bk. 2, chapter 7, f. 75v, "As holy wrytt wytnesse and telle/ There [sic] thingis shull neuer ben full felle . . . Sely is he that this evill fleen/ For the peyne of hell shall he not sene," for which see Hanna, "Addenda," n. 2. Author and title information in the rubric of the prologue: "Hic incipit prologus in librum uricrisiarum Ricardi Dodd, Dilecto socio in christo Magistro Waltero de Ketene Frater Henricus Daniell Ordinis Fratrum predicatorum servulus Ihesu christi et virginis matris eius. Amantissime socie pluries et instanter rogasti me ut de iudiciis urinarum saltem manipulum unum florum tibi carpam atque vel breviter tibi scribam et hoc ydiomate in vulgari . . . ".
mssHM 505