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Contents This health regiment text follows the Regimen sanitatis by Arnaldus de Villanova in MS 175. This text is titled Alius tractatus utilis et brevior de regimine sanitatis licet sit apocrisus.It contains five sections, and the prologue begins with In Nomine domini. Amen. Domine cum sanitas sit multum nobilis.The first section begins on f. 65r, with the line ...

Contents These folios of MS 175 contain a text called Consilia by Barnabas de Riatinis of Reggio. This text seems only to survive in MS 175. It belongs to a popular genre of medieval medical texts known also by the nameconsilia. Consilia, or case consultations, gave pratical advice for maintaining health by managing the six "non-naturals" (food and drink, exercise, sleep, air, excretions and...

Contents ff. 76-120 contain a treatise by Barnabas de Riatinis of Reggio, a fourteenth-century Italian physician and author of (perhaps three) medical texts. Written in Mantua in 1331, the De conservanda sanitate is a manual for the general preservation of health. Barnabas dedicated this text to the nobles and a lord "Symoni of Corrigia", and the first line of which reads: Incipit libellus de conservanda sanitate aggregatus ex...

Contents The first text bound in MS 175 is the health regiment by fourteenth-century physician and theologist, Arnaldus of Villanova, composed for the king of Aragon, Jaume II. A very popular genre of practical medical texts in the Middle Ages, health regiments compiled advice based on humoral medicine for how to conserve and maintain health. This was achieved through management and balance of things like food, drink, exercise, sounds and emotions. Regimen sanitatis...