<i>Articella.</i> In an abbreviated verison of the first printed edition, and with the 'De regimine acutorum' omitted

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[p]Written in a neat gothic script 20 lines to a page, in the last section 24 lines to a page. Part of a large ornamental capital on fol. I in blue and red, other initials in red and blue, and blue and red alternately. In the last section (Receipts), the iniitials in red only. Headings in red. A foliation in pencil has been added.[/p]

[p]1. Johannitus. Isagoge ad Tegni Galenii: 19 ll. Fol. 2 eadem membra reguntur et eorum qualitas constar/... 21v, line 2 qualitate. tempore, quantitate, ordine. boni, ma/liue discretione.[/p]

[p]2. Hippocrates. Aphorismi: 23 ll. Fol. 21v, line 3 (red) Incipiunt ipocratis amforismi. /[V]ita breuis, ars uero longna [sic]... 44v, line 17 deglutire non possit. mrotale. (red) Pronosti/ca ipocratis incipint.[/p]

[p]3. Hippocrates, Prognostica: 14 ll. Fol. 44v, line 19 Omnis qui medicine artis studio ... 58v ... nostro quoque exposite sunt / ordine preceptorum. (red) INCIPIT liber / urinarum a uoce theophili.[/p]

[p]4. Theophilus, Prostopatharius. De urinis: 18 ll. Fol. 59. De urinarum differentia negotium multi ueterum me / dicorum aggressi sunt ... 77v, line 4 ... et secundum / genera et species et differentias conuenienter exposuimus. (red) In / cipit liber philareti de negotio pulsuum.[/p]

[p]5. Philaretus, De pulsibus: 5 ll. Fol. 77v, line 7. Intencionem habemus in presenti conscripcio / ne ... 82v et hec nobis sufficiant ad presencia. (red) Ex / plicit. Incipit prologus tegni.[/p]

[p]6. Galen C., Ars parva: 48 ll. Fol. 83. Tres sunt ['omnes', superscribed] doctrine que ordine habentur / ... 131v ... et prescri / bens quot sunt et qualia determinancio [sic for 'determinabo'] / orationem in eis. EXPLICIT.[/p]

[p]7. Rhazes, Antidotarium: 85 ll. Fol. 132 Incipit An[ridotarium Rasis ... ]. The rest of the line is erased, and the text begins on the verso of this leaf. 132v Confectio tincture capillorum denigrantis... 140v [Confectio medicinalis ad fluxum sanguinis e naribus] ... et suf / fletur in nasum et mictatur in eo licinium. 1463.[/p]

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