MS.82

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.

[b]Contents[/b]

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'.

Material: vellum; 101 ff. 8vo.; leaf dimensions: width 11 cm, length 15 cm; written dimensions: width cm, length cm

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

Written by four different, but contemporary, hands.

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).