Commentum super afforismos Ypocratis ; Commenta super pronostica Ypocratis ; Liber Ypocratis de regimine acutorum

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Title
Commentum super afforismos Ypocratis ; Commenta super pronostica Ypocratis ; Liber Ypocratis de regimine acutorum
Alternative Title
Articella
Hippocrates Aphorismi, Prognostica, De regimine acutorum : cum comment. Galeni ; Ali Ibn Ridwan Commentum super Tegni Galeni
Contributor
Galen.
ʻAlī ibn Riḍwān, -approximately 1068.
Constantine, the African, approximately 1020-1087, translator.
Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187, translator.
Hippocrates.
Published / Created
between 1250 and 1299.
Publication Place
France
Abstract

Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand, of a collection of works by and commentaries on Hippocrates. Includes Hippocrates' Aphorismi (translated by Constantinus Africanus) and Prognostica with commentaries by Galen; Galen's commentary on Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum (translation attributed to Constantinus Africanus and Gerard of Cremona); and a commentary by ʻAlī ibn Riḍwān on Galen's Tegni (translated by Gerard of Cremona). Diagram with a classification of all nature on f. 143v. Copious contemporary marginal notes throughout

Description
In Latin.
Title from headings.
Script: southern gothic textualis.
Decoration: eight-line initials in red ink with blue flourishing. Text commented upon is underlined in red.
Layout: 2 columns of around 50 lines.
Binding: 15th-century blind-tooled brown leather binding, with metal furniture (originally 10, now 4) and clasps (closing on the front cover, wanting). Manuscript note on front cover with shelfmark: h188. Rebacked.
Pagination added in modern pencil.
This manuscipt was formerly believed to have been written in an Italian university (Padua). There is no evidence to support this.
Also available on microfilm.
Provenance
Fifteenth-century manuscript notes in Latin and German on inside back cover. Formerly owned by the Bibliothek des Stiftes (Melk, Austria); ownership note on inside front cover: Monasterii Mellicensis 188. Acquired by Dr. Cushing in January, 1938 from E. P. Goldsmith & Co. (London). Accompanied by correspondence from E. P. Goldsmith, describing the manuscript. Armorial bookplate of Dr. Harvey Cushing on inside front cover. His bequest to Yale Medical School Library.
Extent
1 item (143 leaves) : 270 mm x 190 mm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Digitization Funding Source
Arcadia Fund, 2013
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Call Number
Manuscript 20 Vault

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Study and teaching
Annotations 13th century
Annotations 15th century
Armorial bookplates
Furniture
Monasteries
Material
parchment ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Topic)
Articella
Medicine, Arab
Medicine
Manuscripts
Medicine, Medieval
Subjects
Articella > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Arab
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine > Study and teaching > Early works to 1800
13th century
15th century
Monasteries > Austria > Melk > stamp
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 > Bookplate

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
4677245
Object ID (OID)
16960299

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