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Collection of Greek, Roman and Arabic medical essays in Latin, including the Isagoge by Johannitius; De pulsibus and De urinis by Theophilus Philaretus; Aphorisms by Hippocrates, with commentary by Galen, edited by Constantinus Africanus; Prognostica by Hippocrates, with commentary by Galen; De regimine acutorum morborum by Hippocrates, with commentary by Galen; Epidemiae by Hippocrates, with commentary by Johannes Alexandrinus; De natura foetus by Hippocrates, translated by Bartholomaeus de Messina; Liber Tegni by Galen with commentary by Hali; De divisione librorum Galeni by Gentilis Fulginas; De lege by Hippocrates, translated by Arnoldus de Villa Nova; and Iusiurandum by Hippocrates, translated by Petrus Paulus Vergerius. Edited, with marginalia, by Gregorius a Vulpe from the edition of Franciscus Argilagnes. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 32.3 x 21.5 cm. Printed in double columns. 66 lines to a full column, plus headline. Some woodcut initials; otherwise initial spaces with guide letters. Printed marginalia and paragraph marks. With foliation and signatures; without catchwords. Register and publisher's device on leaf G5v. Errors in foliation: leaves 95 and 119 (1st count) misnumbered as 94 and 121; leaves 26, 35 and 40 (2nd count) misnumbered 25, 33, and 56, respectively. Signatures: [superscript pi]a⁸ a-r⁸, A-E⁸ F-G⁶ (G6 blank). Imperfect: leaves [superscript pi]a1 and [superscript pi]a2 torn along edges and repaired. Binding: decorated paper boards.
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Date
[20 Dec. 1493]
Call number
89964
Provenance
Purchased from Vollbehr, Nov. 1, 1924. Contemporary marginal and interlinear ms. annotations and manicules in the margins.
Dimensions
34 cm (Folio)
Associated people
Vulpe, Gregorius a, (active 15th century,)
Argilagnes, Franciscus, (active 1483-1486.)
Philaretus, Theophilus. (-1348.)
Hippocrates. (active 1486-1523,)
Galen. (-1498,)
Gentilis Fulginas, (809?-873.)
Locatelli, Boneto,
Scotto, Ottaviano,
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī,
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