Arnoldus De Villanova, d.1311

Written in a large gothic hand, 22 lines to a page. Initials and paragraphs marks in alternate red and blue, headings in red. Very large ornamental initial letter P in red and blue on first leaf and a smaller one (Q) on leaf 34v.

1. ff.1r-34r Regimen Sanitatis, Arnoldus De Villanova

f.1r (red) Innomine domini amen Incipit regimen sanitatis ad in /clictum [sic] dominum regem aragonie, ab ordinatione huius libri/Magistro arnaldo de uilla noua directum. de man / sione aeris et congruitate eius. /[P]Rima pars uel conscideracio/sanitatis... f.34r line 10 ... et anno [sic] suauiter quan/tum poterit intromittatur. Et de hiis dicta sufficiant//deo gracias amen atque beate marie.// (red) Explicit breuis tractatus de regimine/sanitatis editus a magistro arnaldo de uil/la noua chatelano cuius anima requiescat in/pace. amen.

2. ff.34v-39r Regimen Sanitatis, Arnoldus De Villanova

f.34v (red) Incipit libellus regiminis sanitatis [sic] nobilium/Et eorum etiam Qui populariter seu uul/gariter se conregunt. edictus a magistro/aranldo de uilla nova cathalano./[Q]uia me rogastis ut uobis libe/llum conseruationis sanitatis scri/berem...f.39r...et mulitis in/firmitatibus elongetur, volente deo omnipotente/qui site per omnia secula seculorum benedictus. AMEN.//(red) Explicit.

Late 14th Century

1 Volume 39 II. folio. 29 x 31 cm. Modern vellum binding.

Pruchased at Hoepli Sale, Milan 3/5/1928, Lot 45.

This work was first printed in 1474.

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).

This material has been digitised and can be freely accessed online through Wellcome Collection catalogue.

On the first leaf 'Federico Patella MS. No. 69'.