Half title, printed in red, reads: Ugonis Senes̄is super quarta fen primi Avi. preclara expositio: cu ̄annotatoīb ́Jacobi de Partib.́ and "The printer of the first edition (Klebs 997.1) combined Hugo Senensis' partial commentary (on chaps. 1-16) with the latter half (chaps. 17-31) of the complete but brief commentary of Marsilius de Sancta Sophia to make this composite work": c.f. Goff number H-546; Yale Med copy is a variant.
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of the anonymous Historia septem sapientum (ff. 1r-15v) and Arnaldus de Villanova's Regimen sanitatis ad regem Aragonum (ff. 15v-19r, highly abbreviated). Also includes Lentulus' Epistola de statura Christi ad Senatum Romanum (f. 19v) and a collection of moral sentences (f. 20r) in a different, slightly later hand
Alternative Title:
Historia septem sapientum : Regimen sanitatis abbreviatum
Description:
In Latin., Title of Regimen Sanitatis from opening rubric: Incipit liber de regimen sanitatis editus per Magistrum Raynaldum de Villa nova. (f. 15v) Other titles assigned by cataloger., Script: southern Gothic texualis., Decoration: 3-line initials in blue and 2-line initials in red. Rubrication., Layout: written in 2 columns of 29 lines., Binding: modern binding over pasteboard signed by binder: Bound by J. Desmonts / J. Macdonald Co. / Norwalk. Conn., Contemporary foliation: 96-115 (indicating sequence in original manuscript?); and modern foliation 1-20., and Available also on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
BEIN 1971 233: Bound in 2 vols. Imperfect: half-title wanting. Autograph of Andersone. Autograph of Godwill., Signatures: v. 1: A-M8 (M8 blank) A-O8P2Q2 (Q2 blank); v. 2: a-z8aa4 (aa4 blank)., and The Arabic text without book 4 translated by Edward Pococke, and printed at the expense of the Hon. Robert Boyle.
Publisher:
excudebat Gulielm. Hall
Subject (Name):
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Subject (Topic):
Apologetics, History, Indifferentism (Religion), and Dedications
Illuminated manuscript herbal, on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of medical texts, tables, and taxonomies about plants, animals, and herbs by Hippocrates, Dycolapius Plato, Apuleius, Sextus Placitus, Dioscorides, and Apollinis. Includes copious hand-colored drawings of plants and animals, and a number of full-page author portraits
Alternative Title:
In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicine scilicet Ypocratis, Platonis, et Diascoridis, In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicie s. Ypoctis, Platonis, et Diascoridis, and De herbis masculinis et feminis [and other botanical and zoological works, including the Herbarium of Apuleius]
Description:
In Latin., Title from rubricated heading on f. 3r., Script: southern gothic textualis., Layout: 1 column of around 38 lines., Decoration: copious illustriations of plants and animals. Full-page portraits of the authors on ff. 3v, 50v, and 63r. Rubrication., Binding: 18th/19th-century vellum binding over pastedboard. Spine title: Plantan et animal., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical, Herbals, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Zoology, Medieval