Articella. In a version conforming to the first printed edition, with the addition of the medical section of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Secreta secretorum

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Contents

1. ff. 1r-14v Johannitius, Isagoge

Title: 'Incipiunt Ysagoge Johannicii ad teni [sic] Galieni'.

Incipit: 'Medicina diuiditur in duas partes…'

Explicit: '…boni malius discretio'.

2. ff. 15r-16v Philaretus, Liber pulsuum

Incipit: 'Intencionem habemus in presenti conscripcione...'

Explicit: '...et hoc nobis sufficiant ad presencia. Explicit liber pulsuum'.

3. ff. 17r-22r Hippocrates, Liber prognosticorum

Incipit: 'Omnis qui medicine studio...'

Explicit: '...ordine preceptorum'.

4. ff. 22r-30v Theophilus, Liber de urinis

Incipit: '[D]e urinarum differentia negocium...'

Explicit: '...conuenienter exposuimus'.

5. ff. 30v-32r Pseudo-Aristoteles, Secreta secretorum, extract

Incipit: '[O]portet ergo Alexander cum a sompno surrexeris...'

Explicit: '...Aristotelis sufficiat. Explicit liber de secretis secretorum'.

6. ff. 33r-50r Hippocrates, Liber aphorismorum

Title: 'Liber Aphorismorum Ypocratis prima particula...'

Incipit: '[V]ita brevis. Ars uero longa...'

7. f. 50v-51r Recipes for various waters, in a later hand

Begins: 'Aqua buglose...'

Ends: '...cito sanat rupturaque'

Explicit: '...deglutire non possit. mortale.'

8. ff. 51r-88v Galen, Tegni

Incipit: 'Tres sunt omnes doctrine que ordine habentur...'

Explicit: '…orationem in eis'.

9. ff. 88v-89v Gentile da Foligno, De divisione librorum Galeni

Incipit: 'Dictum igitur est et prius quoniam...'

Ends imperfectly: '...in ea que de demonstracione operacione futuram logica operari artem. In ea…'

10. ff. 90r-101v Hippocrates, De regimine acutorum

Incipit: 'Qui de egrotancium accidentibus...'

Explicit: '...sed in illis tamen aliquando conuniens est. Explicit liber gloriosissimi ypocratis de regimine acutorum'.

Early 14th Century

1 volume

101 ff. 8vo. 15 x 11 cm. On vellum. Stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards: clasp wanting. Margins cropped in binding, first and last 6 ff. slightly damaged.

Written by four different, but contemporary hands: Hand A. Small and clear gothic, 22 lines lines to a page (ff. 1-14, 35-65). B. More angular sloped (German?) script, 24-33 lines to a page. (ff. 15-30). C. Upright angular (German?) script, 35 lines to a page (ff. 30v-32). D. Clear gothic, slightly sloped and somewhat larger than A (ff. 65v-end). Initials, paragraph marks, and headings in red. On the first leaf a large decorated initial M in red and blue, with other initials in blue and red, and red and blue. On f. 42v is a faint line drawing of a physician in gown and hood, holding up a urine glass before a patient: on f. 100 a drawing of a grotesque head. The first and last fly-leaves are fragments of a deed on vellum for the sale of a house by Bartholomew von Bibra and his cousin Caspar von Stein dated 1459 [?]. The second fly-leaf at the beginning appears to be a leaf from a contemporary work on canon law.

Parts of the text - which is written throughout with wide margins - are accompanied by copious marginal notes by several 14th and 15th century users.

Purchased at Sotheby's 3/2/1908, Lot 101.

Written in Italy.

The contents of this manuscript corresponds very closely to that of the first edition of 'Articella' printed at Padua in 1476, though the pseudo-Aristotelian 'Secreta Secretorum' is an addition.

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).