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Written in double column, the text and commentary together in a larger and smaller rounded gothic script, possibly English, with many contractions. Each section has a title heading on each recto in alternate blue and red lettering 'AMPH' 'PNOST', etc. Ornamental capitals, with marginal decorations in alternate blue and red, and red and blue: paragraph marks in alternate red and blue: some smaller capitals tinted with yellow.

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1. ff. 1r-4v Hippocrates, Liber prognosticorum

f. 1r Omnis qui medicine studio artis seu gloriam ... f. 4v ... ordine preceptorum. Explecit liber prognosticorum.

2. ff. 4v-10v Theophilus, Liber urinarum

f. 4v Incipit Liber urinarum theophili. De urinarum differantia negocium ... f. 10v ... convenienter exposimus.

3. ff. 10v-12r Philaretus, De negocio pulsuum

f. 10v Incipit Philareti de negocio pulsuum. Intentionem habemus in presenti conscriptione ... f. 12r ... dicta sufficiant. Explicit Liber Philareti de negocio pulsuum.

4. ff. 12r-26r Galen, Tegni

f. 12r Incipit tegni Galieni archimetros de compositionibus signis et causis egritudinis consequentis. Tres sunt omnes doctrine ... f. 26r ... orationem in eis. Explicit liber tegni.

5. ff. 26r-31r Hippocrates, De regimine acutorum

f. 26r Incipit Liber de regimine acutorum. Qui de egrotantium accidentibus ... f. 31r conveniens est. Explicit liber de regimine acutorum.

6. ff. 31r-32v Expositio terminorum

f. 31r Medicina est sciencia regendi complexionem naturalem ... f. 32v ... accidintia lucidi.

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