Layout: 2 columns, 49 lines Decoration: 4 2-line initials in red with faint contrasting penwork opening new chapters, rubrics and textual underlining in red Bifolium recycled as a wrapper for a later accounts book dated 1586 Provenance: Medieval, and later, ownerwhip by the Hôtel-Dieu de Beaufort-en-Vallée in Anjou Fragment recycled as a bookbinding for a 16th-century account book at the Hôtel-Dieu de Beaufort-en-Vallée in Anjou. The original manuscript was likely used at this hospital. 13th-century translation into Latin of the 9th-century Syriac medical treatise Serapion. The translator, Gerard of Cremona is not to be confused with the 12th-century translator of Aristotle by the same name. Incipit: Fol. 468.1: et confert et cauterium Fol. 468.2: propter illud qod sumitur in comestione Explicit: Fol. 468.1: lanam inunctam oleo…in quo decoctum est Fol. 468.2: cum eis utrique spica inda et miscetur Text from Tractatus IV, Ch. 10-12 (fol. 468.1) and Ch. 20-21 (fol. 468.2), on the topics of the kidneys and bladder and the extraction of kidney stones
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