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[p]The binding of this volume is very tight and must be handled taking care not to apply excess pressure. Please ask staff for advice during consulation. [p][b]Contents[/b][/p] [p]1. ff. 1r-14v Johannitius, [i]Isagoge[/i][/p] [p]Title: 'Incipiunt Ysagoge Johannicii ad teni [sic] Galieni'.[/p] [p]Incipit: 'Medicina diuiditur in duas partes…'[/p] [p]Explicit: '…boni malius discretio'.[/p] [p]2. ff. 15r-16v Philaretus, [i]Liber pulsuum[/i][/p] [p]Incipit: 'Intencionem habemus in presenti conscripcione...'[/p] [p]Explicit: '...et hoc nobis sufficiant ad presencia. Explicit liber pulsuum'.[/p] [p]3. ff. 17r-22r Hippocrates, [i]Liber prognosticorum[/i][/p] [p]Incipit: 'Omnis qui medicine studio...'[/p] [p]Explicit: '...ordine preceptorum'.[/p] [p]4. ff. 22r-30v Theophilus, [i] Liber de urinis[/i][/p] [p]Incipit: '[D]e urinarum differentia negocium...'[/p] [p]Explicit: '...conuenienter exposuimus'.[/p] [p]5. ff. 30v-32r Pseudo-Aristoteles, [i]Secreta secretorum[/i], extract[/p] [p]Incipit: '[O]portet ergo Alexander cum a sompno surrexeris...'[/p] [p]Explicit: '...Aristotelis sufficiat. Explicit liber de secretis secretorum'.[/p] [p]6. ff. 33r-50r Hippocrates, [i]Liber aphorismorum[/i][/p] [p]Title: 'Liber Aphorismorum Ypocratis prima particula...'[/p] [p]Incipit: '[V]ita brevis. Ars uero longa...'[/p] [p]7. f. 50v-51r Recipes for various waters, in a later hand[/p] [p]Begins: 'Aqua buglose...'[/p] [p]Ends: '...cito sanat rupturaque'[/p] [p]Explicit: '...deglutire non possit. mortale.'[/p] [p]8. ff. 51r-88v Galen, [i]Tegni[/i] [p]Incipit: 'Tres sunt omnes doctrine que ordine habentur...'[/p] [p]Explicit: '…orationem in eis'.[/p] [p]9. ff. 88v-89v Gentile da Foligno, [i]De divisione librorum Galeni[/i] [p]Incipit: 'Dictum igitur est et prius quoniam...'[/p] [p]Ends imperfectly: '...in ea que de demonstracione operacione futuram logica operari artem. In ea…'[/p] [p]10. ff. 90r-101v Hippocrates, [i]De regimine acutorum[/i] [p]Incipit: 'Qui de egrotancium accidentibus...'[/p] [p]Explicit: '...sed in illis tamen aliquando conuniens est. Explicit liber gloriosissimi ypocratis de regimine acutorum'.[/p]

[p]101 ff. 8vo. 15 x 11 cm. On vellum. Stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards: clasp wanting. Margins cropped in binding, first and last 6 ff. slightly damaged.[/p] [p]Written by four different, but contemporary hands: Hand A. Small and clear gothic, 22 lines lines to a page (ff. 1-14, 35-65). [/lb] B. More angular sloped (German?) script, 24-33 lines to a page. (ff. 15-30). [/lb] C. Upright angular (German?) script, 35 lines to a page (ff. 30v-32). [/lb] D. Clear gothic, slightly sloped and somewhat larger than A (ff. 65v-end). [/lb] Initials, paragraph marks, and headings in red. On the first leaf a large decorated initial M in red and blue, with other initials in blue and red, and red and blue. On f. 42v is a faint line drawing of a physician in gown and hood, holding up a urine glass before a patient: on f. 100 a drawing of a grotesque head. [/lb] 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.[/p] [p]Parts of the text - which is written throughout with wide margins - are accompanied by copious marginal notes by several 14th and 15th century users.[/p]; leaf dimensions: width cm, length cm; written dimensions: width cm, length cm

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