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Aforismi Ypocratis, 12th century
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Identifier: MS 163/ff. 73r-118v
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The final 45 folios of MS 163, ff. 73-118, contains a copy of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. This text was also part of the medieval medical reference volume, the 'Articella'. It contains a set of propositions on diagnosis and symptoms of diseases, and also guidance on healing.The text begins on f. 73r with the famous first sentence of this text: Vita brevis ars vero longa, "Life is short, but art is...
Dates:
12th century
MS 165: Composite manuscript containing three texts, 13th century
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Identifier: MS 165
Contents
Contains three texts, all in the same hand. Although these are three separate texts, the binding of them together, with the two short texts following Avicenna's Canon is a common arrangement.ff. 1r-406r: Canon of Medicine by Avicenna [Arabic: Ibn Sina], in 12th-century Gerard of Cremona's Latin translationff. 407r-411v: synonima Avicenniff. 411v-412r: Expositiones...
Dates:
13th century
MS 166: Composite manuscript containing sixteen texts by/attributed to Galen, late 13th century
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Identifier: MS 166
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Contains sixteen texts by/attributed to Galen, in two different hands.ff. 1r-15v; 271r-274v:'De morbo et accidente'ff. 15v-48r; 266v-271r: 'De Interioribus'ff. 48r-75v: 'Megategni', 11th-century Latin translation by Constantinus Africanusff. 75v-92r: 'De Creticis Diebus'ff. 92r-114v: 'De Crisibus', 12th-century translation by Gerard of Cremonaff. 115r-125v: 'De elementis secundum Hippocratem', translated by Gerard of...
Dates:
late 13th century
Prologue to Afforismi Ypocratis by an unknown author, 12th century
Part
Identifier: MS 163/f. 72v
Contents
F. 72v contains an interesting preface to the text that follows, on ff. 73-118v, the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. The short preface on f. 72v blames the inaccuracy and obscurity of previous translations (into Latin, from the original Greek) of the Aphorisms. The text is only 24 lines, and begins with Afforismum ypocratis hujus edictionis causa exstitit... It ends with septima in acutis...
Dates:
12th century
Tegni Galieni, 12th century
Part
Identifier: MS 163/ff. 24r-71r
Contents
ff. 24-71 of MS 163 contains another text of medicine that was fundamental to the medieval curriculum, and was usually bound in the textbook-like volume the 'Articella', along with the text by Ioannitius, in ff. 1-20 of MS 163. This second text of the Articella, the Tegni is Galen's summary of the Hippocratic works on medicine.The text begins on f. 24r with the prologue to Galen's Tegni: ...
Dates:
12th century