Articella

Articella

Written in double column, the text and commentary together in a larger and smaller rounded gothic script, possibly English, with many contractions. Each section has a title heading on each recto in alternate blue and red lettering 'AMPH' 'PNOST', etc. Ornamental capitals, with marginal decorations in alternate blue and red, and red and blue: paragraph marks in alternate red and blue: some smaller capitals tinted with yellow.

Contents

1. ff. 1r-4v Hippocrates, Liber prognosticorum

f. 1r Omnis qui medicine studio artis seu gloriam ... f. 4v ... ordine preceptorum. Explecit liber prognosticorum.

2. ff. 4v-10v Theophilus, Liber urinarum

f. 4v Incipit Liber urinarum theophili. De urinarum differantia negocium ... f. 10v ... convenienter exposimus.

3. ff. 10v-12r Philaretus, De negocio pulsuum

f. 10v Incipit Philareti de negocio pulsuum. Intentionem habemus in presenti conscriptione ... f. 12r ... dicta sufficiant. Explicit Liber Philareti de negocio pulsuum.

4. ff. 12r-26r Galen, Tegni

f. 12r Incipit tegni Galieni archimetros de compositionibus signis et causis egritudinis consequentis. Tres sunt omnes doctrine ... f. 26r ... orationem in eis. Explicit liber tegni.

5. ff. 26r-31r Hippocrates, De regimine acutorum

f. 26r Incipit Liber de regimine acutorum. Qui de egrotantium accidentibus ... f. 31r conveniens est. Explicit liber de regimine acutorum.

6. ff. 31r-32v Expositio terminorum

f. 31r Medicina est sciencia regendi complexionem naturalem ... f. 32v ... accidintia lucidi.

Mid 14th Century

1 volume ff. i + 32 + i. 190 x 130mm. 36 long lines.

Purchased 1911.

Written in Italy.

Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see 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), vol. 1, pp. 58-59.

C. O'Boyle, Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-century Copies of the Ars Medicine: A Checklist and Contents Descriptions of the Manuscripts (Cambridge : Cambridge Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 1998; Articella Studies: Texts and Interpretations in Medieval and Renaissance Medical Teaching, 1), p. 43.

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

There are marginal notes by contemporary and 15th cent. owners, some cropped in rebinding. From the Payne Collection, with his ex-libris, and an inserted holograph note by him on the contents of this MS. In Sotheby's Catalogue of the Payne Library, No. 323.