Form of name taken from Klebs, A. Incunabula ... 1938., Signatures: blank, a7, b8, c8, blank., First and last leaves are genuine blanks., and Yale Med copy has some red initials and copious annotations.
Manuscript in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an incomplete copy of Constantine the African's De Remine Sanitatis, or Liber Pantegni (Practica). The text is a Latin translation from Arabic of ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās Majūsī's Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah. Contains 16 leaves: incipit: Quia in p[rima] p[ar]te n[ost]ri lib[ri] panteg[ni]; excipit: melestia[m]. Bound together with parchment leaf (l. 17) with miscellaneous medical notes, in several hands different from the hand of the other 16 leaves
Alternative Title:
Liber pantegni
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric: Hic incipit liber de regimine sanitatis., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: Red and blue illluminated initials with red and blue pen-flourishing in the margin; rubrication., Layout: leaves 1-16: 1 column of 34-37 lines; leaf 17: two-columns of 37 lines., Binding: Modern three-quarter vellum over green printed paper. Spine title: Constantinus Africanus MS. Saec. XIII., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Name):
Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, active 10th century-11th century.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
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.