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.

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).

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