A collection of Latin texts by or attributed to Arnaldus de Villanova

A collection of Latin texts by or attributed to Arnaldus de Villanova

Contents

1. f. 1r: Venientia ad ultimum perfectionis et beneuoli/aspectus ad corpus humanum sunt / Ex mineralibus aurum / ... (line 11) Ex corpore humano mumia.

2. f. 1v: Manuscript notes.

3. ff. 2r-56v: Arnaldus de Villanova, De considerationibus operis medicine sive de flebotomia, in Latin.

4. ff. 57r-66v: Arnaldus de Villanova [?], Aphorismi de ingeniis curativis et preservativis morborum, in Latin.

5. ff. 67r-84v: Arnaldus de Villanova [?], Aphorismi super libro de ingenio sanitatis, in Latin.

6. ff. 85r-120r: Arnaldus de Villanova [?], De medicinis simplicibus, in Latin.

7. ff. 120v-128r: De duabus radicibus secretorum, a treatise on the properties of Melissa officinalis, i.e. lemon balm, in Latin.

Mid 15th Century

1 Volume 135 ff. Modern foliation 1-135 in pencil. Ff. 128v-135v blank. 4to. 18 x 13 1/2 cm. Early 16 cent. stamped calf binding, damaged. One of the blank leaves at the end has been cut out: part of the upper margin of the second leaf has been cut away. Written in a semi-current humanistic hand, with many contractions: 25 lines to a page. Titles and Explicits in red or blue, capitals in alternate red and blue, paragraph marks in red.

Purchased 1922.

An owner's name on fol. I has been struck through, and is illegible. Ex-libris label of Hermann Suchier, German philologist [1848-1914].

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).