Collection of Galenic treatises, mostly in the Latin translations of Gerard of Cremona and Burgundio of Pisa

Contents

1. ff. 1r-8v Galen, De elementis, trans. Gerard of Cremona.

Title: ''Liber Galieni de elementis incipit. A magistro Gerardo cremonensi de arabico in latinum translatus'.

Incipit: 'Quoniam cum sit elementum…'

Explicit: ...'illum humorem qui attrahitur violenter. Deo gratias'.

2. ff. 9r-22r Galen, De facultatibus naturalibus, trans. Burgundio of Pisa.

Title: 'Liber primus Galieni de naturalibus virtutibus a Burgundione cive pisano translatus'.

Incipit: 'Quia sentire quidem et moveri secundum electionem…'

Explicit: '...vel omnifariam evellunt breve. Explicit liber Galieni de naturalibus virtutibus.'

3. ff. 22r-24v Galen, De pulsibus ad tirones, trans. Burgundio of Pisa.

Title: 'Liber introductorius de pulsibus a Burgundione Pisano translatu's.

Incipit: 'Quecumque hiis qui introducuntur dilectissime teucre necessaria sciri…'

Explicit: '...et quandoque intensionem quandam arterie brevem. Explicit liber introductorius de pulsibus'.

4. ff. 25r-40v Galen, De accidenti et morbo

Title: 'Liber primus Galieni de causis morbis et accidentibus'.

Incipit: 'In initio huius libri diffiniri opportet morbum…'

Explicit: '…que accidentia semper alia sequuntur. Et que non.'

5. ff. 41r-55r Galen, De temperamentis, trans. Gerard of Cremona.

Title: 'Diviso generalis primi de complexionibus Galieni'.

Incipit: 'Summe que sunt in sermone primo libri Galieni...'

Explicit: '…quemadmodum ante diximus in medicinis ipsis. Explicit liber Galieni de complexionibus'.

6. ff. 55r-56v Galen, De malicia complexionis

Title: 'Liber Galieni de malitia complexionis diverse incipit'.

Incipit: 'Malitia complexionis diverse quandoque in toto corpore…'

Explicit: '...post ipsum librum de ingenio sanitatis. Explicit liber Galieni de malitia complexionis.' Galen, De malicia complexionis'.

7. ff. 57r-72v Galen, De interioribus, in the version conflated by Taddeo Alderotti from an Arabic-Latin translation and the Greek-Latin translation by Burgundio of Pisa

Title: 'Liber Galieni de interioribus'.

Incipit: 'Medicorum non solum moderni sed etiam antiqui...'

Ends imperfectly: '…aut propter colligantia cerebri…'

Bibliography

Durling, Richard J. 'Burgundio of Pisa's Translation of Galen's De interioribus', Traditio 42 (1986), p. 440.

early 14th century

1 volume 1 volume: 388 × 260 mm., i, 72 ff. Vellum. Collation: fly leaf, then nine gatherings of eight leaves. Lacking two gatherings at the end of the final text, wanting prior to binding. Written space (double column) approx. 275 × 180 mm., 53 to 55 lines. Dark brown ink, with headings and titles in red; initials red or blue, with penwork. Six illuminated initials in blue, green or red, two (ff. 1r., 41r.) incorporating a lizard-like animal. 15th-century binding of half-leather and wooden boards; three Agnus Dei metal catches, two clasps, others missing. Later inscription on f. i verso 'Questo galieno sie a precio de duc. 2.'

Sotheby's 8 July 1974, lot 64.

Produced in Italy, perhaps at Padua or Bologna.

Database description transcribed from Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Ownership stamp, partly erased, on f. 1r. in the form of an Italian heraldic crest [17th-18th century].