Contents 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...