Bartholomaeus Anglicus

De proprietatibus rerum. Ornamental initials with marginal decorations in blue and red, and red and blue; headings and paragraph marks in red. There is an early (15th cent.) foliation 1-ccxxxii which should read ccxxxiv as fol. cxl and fol. ccvii are doubled. There are two pairs of vellum fly-leaves, both of slightly smaller size than the text. The inner pair contain fragments from a contemporary unidentified commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. The outer pair are blank except for the inscription 'Liber andree hendersoni 1547' in calligraphic script on the recto of the first leaf. Fol. 1, col. 1 Cum proprietates rerum sequantur / substantias secundum distinctionem et ordi / nem substantiarum ... 260v, col. 2, line 6 ... principium et finis omnium bonorum qui / est deus sublimis et gloriosus uiuens et regnans in secula seculorum Amen. / (red) Explicit tractatus de proprietatibus rerum. / Auctores ['q' struck through] de quorum scriptis sunt hec tracta. sunt isti Au / gustinus. Adamantius. Ambrosius ... / ... / ... (line 16) Ricardus de sancto uictore. Symon corduensis. Stephanus strabo. / (red) Inter philosophos huiusmodi sunt auctores / Aristoteles. Auicenna. Aue-roys. Agaçel ... / ... / (line 34) ... ut patere potest diligentius ['ï tue', struck through] / intuenti. Et sic peruenitur ad finem. Amen. Amen. Amen. / / (red) Laus tibi sit christe quia liber explicit iste. Below the end of the text is a partly erased inscription by a 15th cent. hand: 'Iste liber peruenit ad conuenum Venetum maiorem / ex diuisione librorum cuiusdam magistri antonii macho / qui obiit dum esset iuratus [?] uenetiis et deputatus / testamento [?] libros librariae prefati conuentus'.

Mid 14th Century

1 volume 2 ll. + 260 ff. + 2 ll. folio. 30 x 22 cm. On vellum. In a fragment of a 15th cent. stamped leather binding extensively repaired and rebacked. Margins slightly cropped, some leaves rubbed. Written mainly in a clear gothic book-hand in two columns of 43 lines to a column: the last 30 ll.-on a better quality vellum-by perhaps a later hand, 47 lines to a column.

Purchased 1905.

This work was first printed at Bâle, c. 1470.

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).