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Contents These five folios of MS 166 contain the Latin translation of Galen's de pulsibus ad tirones, by Marcus of Toledo. This text is usually found with 'De usu pulsuum', which is indeed found on the folios of MS 166 succeeding this text. The de pulsibus ad tirones is a text on the pulse, specifically for students. Marcus of Toledo made his Latin translation in the 12th century from the earlier Arabic translation by Johannitius (the...

Contents Ff. 87-97 of MS 169 contain the treatise, De pulsibus, by the French royal physician, Gilles de Corbeil (known by the Latinisation of his name, 'Aegidius Corboliensis '). As well as a 12th-13th century royal physician, Gilles was dedicated to Academic medicine in France, and promoted the Salernitian school. As a teacher of medicine, he composed two poems for students, the De urinis and De...

Contents Ff. 245-248 of MS 166 contain the Galenic text De usu pulsuum, a treatise on the use of the pulse in medical practice. Usually, and as is the case in MS 166, De usu pulsuum is bound together with De pulsibus ad tirones, a treatise on the pulse for students (on ff. 241-45 of MS 166). Like the preceding treatise on the pulse, this copy of De usu pulsuum is the...

Contents The first eight folios of MS 173 contain the verses on pulses by the twelfth to thirteenth-century French poet and physician, Giles of Corbeil (also known as Aegidius Corboliensis). Giles was educated at the medical school of Salerno, the first and one of the most renowned schools for medical knowledge in Western Europe throughout the Middle Ages. Giles returned to Paris in the late twelfth century and became a teacher, canon of Notre Dame and also court physician to King Phillip II. Giles'...