Galen, Claudius, 131-201

  • Galen, Claudius, 131-201
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Late 14th Century
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MS.287
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Epitome of the 'Methodus medendi' books III VII. (Incomplete). Illuminated initial on Fol. 1 in gold and colours with marginal floreated decorations, containing a miniature, slightly rubbed, of a physician operating on the head of a seated patient and two assistants standing by. Written in double column of 39 lines to a column, in an Italian gothic book-hand. Other capitals and paragraph marks in alternate blue and red: headings in red.

p.1, col. 1 (red) Incipit liber tercius de ingenio/sanitatis. ad laudem dei./[S]ICUT/OP/ER/AND/I SIG/NIFI/CATI/ONES/NERO Carissime Ab essentia nature/morbi conuenit considerari..p.104, col. 2 [Capitulum xv, Libri VII.] In cucurbitis forciata apua absinthii./From leaf 33 to the end, the leaves are palimpsest, and there are traces of an earlier script-possibly of the 13th cent. These include lists of office-holders in an unknown Italian city. On p.68 is a heading in red 'Ad of[f]icium Jurarie', and on p.77, also in red, 'Ad of[f]icium lignagii'.

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Late 14th Century

Physical description

1 volume 52 ll. folio. 291/2 x 20 cm. On vellum, buckram binding by E. Watson of Paddington St. Some leaves slightly stained.

Acquisition note

Purchased at Sotheby's 6/11/1933, Lot 318.

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This material has been digitised and can be freely accessed online through Wellcome Collection catalogue.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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Autograph of 'J. Hilton 1880' inside cover.

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  • 66271