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Manfredi, Giovanni, 99.

Manfredi, Hieronymo, professor of medicine at Bologna (1463-93): account of his career, 97-9; astrological studies, 97-9, 102, 103. Manuscript Anothomia of Manfredi, 103-64; translation of selected passages, with commentary: the brain, 107-15; cranial nerves, 110, 111, 118; eye, 118-22; head, 106-18; heart, 122-30; skull, 106, 107; Italian text of the Anothomia, 130-64. Printed works, 99-103; Centilogium de medicis et infirmis, 102; Editio princeps of Ptolemy, 99; Liber de homine: cuius sunt libri duo. Primus liber de conservatione sanitatis (‘Il Perchè’), 101; Prognosticon ad annum 1479, 98, 102; Prognosticon anni 1481, 102; Tractato degno et utile de la pestilentia, 101. Other works attributed to Manfredi: Chiromantia secundum naturae vires ad extra, 103; Ephemerides astrologicae operationes medicas spectantes, 103; Quaestiones subtilissimae super librum aphorismorum, 103.

Manichean heresy, 192.

Mansell, Monumenta Ritualia, 168.

Mansi, Giovanni Domenico, Archbishop of Lucca, 9.

Mantegna, Andrea, anatomical studies of, 86.

Manuscripts: Berlin: Al Qifty, Classes philosophorum et astronomorum et medicorum, 229 n. 3. Bristol Reference Library: French MS. of the Grande Chirurgie of Guy de Chauliac, 84 n., plate XXX (b). British Museum: Al Qifty, Classes philosophorum et astronomorum et medicorum, 229 n. 3; Bacon, Roger, De scientia perspectiva, 116 fig. 14; diagram of the eye, 122, plate XXXVIII (a); cramp-ring made from offertory pennies, 173; De fundacione ecclesie Westm’, 166; Eleemosyna Rolls of Edward III, 169, 170; Muhaḏḏib ed Din, Delectus de Medicina, fragment, 228; Household Accounts of Henry IV, 170. Bury Wills (published by the Camden Society), 172 n. 2. Cambridge, University Library: Life of Edward the Confessor, 166, plate XXXIX. Chantilly: anatomical sketches from the MS. of Guy de Vigevano, 87, plates XXXI, XXXII. Copenhagen, Royal Library: Beatae Hildegardis causae et curae, 12, plate V (a). Dresden: illuminated codex of Galen, 87, 88, plate XXXIV. Heidelberg, University Library: illuminated MS. of the Scivias of St. Hildegard, 8, plates III, IV. Leyden, University Library: Al Qifty, Classes philosophorum et astronomorum et medicorum, 229 n. 3; Golius’s Oriental MSS., 230; Muhaḏḏib ed Din, Delectus de Medicina, 228, 230. London Society of Antiquaries: Proclamation on the Creepyng of the Crosse, 169.

Lucca, Municipal Library: illustrated codex of the Liber divinorum operum simplicis hominis of St. Hildegard, 8-12, 22, 25, 28, 32, 34, 35, 39 n., 40, 42, plates V (b), VI-IX, XI. Madrid, Escurial: Al Qifty, Classes philosophorum et astronomorum et medicorum, 229 n. 3. Montpellier, Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine: French MS. of the Grande Chirurgie of Guy de Chauliac, 81 n. 2, plate XXIX. Munich, 87 n. 1. Oxford, Bodleian Library: astrological work translated from the Arabic by Hermann the Dalmatian, 17 n.; diagrams of internal organs, 87, 88; dissection scene, c. 1298, 81, plate XXVIII (b); ‘Five Figure’ anatomical series, 44, 87 n., 88 fig. 6, plates XVIII, XXXIII; Hieronymo Manfredi, Anothomia, 90, 103-6, 130-64; Marsh’s Oriental MSS., 229; Muhaḏḏib ed Din, Delectus de Medicina, 227, 228; Tractatus de Causis et Indiciis Morborum, attributed to Maimonides, 225, 227, 229, 231, 234, plate XLI. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale: ninth-century MS. with diagram showing relation of human and cosmic phenomena, plate XIV; MSS. with figures illustrating signs of the Zodiac, 38, 39, plates XV, XVI; illustrating the anatomy of Henri de Mondeville, 87, plate XXVIII (a); Orders of the King of England’s household, 13 Henry VIII, 167, 168; Tractatus de Causis et Indiciis Morborum, alleged copy, 225; tracts by Maimonides, 225, 226, 227, 229, 234. Pisa University Library (Roncioni MS.): anatomical drawings, 87 n. 4, 127 fig. 21. Raudnitz: Library of Count F. Zdenho von Lobkowicz, anatomical drawings, 87 n. 1. Record Office, London: Wardrobe Accounts of Edward III, 170; Account Books of Richard II, 170. Rome, Vatican Library: Provençal translation of the Grande Chirurgie of Guy de Chauliac, 83 n., plate XXX (a). Westminster, Library of the Roman Catholic Cathedral: Manual of Queen Mary Tudor, 175, 177-9, plate XL. Wiesbaden, Nassauische Landesbibliothek: works of St. Hildegard, 6-8, 9 fig. 2, 12 n., 14, 22, 23, 49, 51, 54, plates I-IV, XII (a, b), XIII, XIX-XXV.

Manuscripts, illuminated, 7, 8, 10-12, 166, 177-9, plates I-IV, V (b), VI-IX, XI-XIII, XIX-XXV, XXXIX, XL.

Mappaemundi, 22.

Marbod of Anjou, 13.

Marburg: see Conrad of Marburg.

Marburg, Protestant University of, 221.

Marsh, Narcissus, Archbishop of Armagh, collection of Oriental MSS., 229.

Martin, W., Miniaturen der lateinischen Galenos-Handschrift der kgl. öffentl. Bibliothek in Dresden, 88 n.

Martinotti, G., L’insegnamento dell’ Anatomia in Bologna prima del secolo XIX, 92 n. 4, 103 n. 2.

Mary I, Queen, and the blessing of cramp-rings, 175, 177; the Queen’s Manual, with the Office of Blessing, 175, 177-9; miniature of, 177-9, plate XL.

Mathematics and scientific proof, 238, 239, 241, 255, 263, 269.

Mathews, Norris, Early Printed Books and MSS. in the Bristol Reference Library, 84 n. 1.

Mayence Commission (1489), 8.

Mazzatinti, Inventari dei Manoscritti delle Biblioteche d’Italia, 103 n. 4.

Medici, Lorenzo de’, 104.

Medici, Michele, Compendio storico della scuola anatomica di Bologna dal Rinascimento delle Scienze e delle Lettere a tutto il Secolo XVIII, 92 n. 1, 103 n. 2; Della vita e degli scritti degli anatomici e medici fioriti in Bologna dal comincio del secolo XIII, 92 n. 1, 93 n. 1, 97 n. 1.

Meiningen, witch-burning at, 208.

Melancholia, 213, 217, 221.

‘Melothesia’, 38, 39 n.., 41 figs. 6, 7, plates XV, XVI.

Messahalah, writings of, 19, 27, 30, 39 n. 3; De Orbe, 17, 18, 29.

Metabolism, 60, 65, 68, 70, 76.

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