Johannitius (Hunayn ibn Ishaq) (810-877)
- Date:
- Early 14th Century
- Reference:
- MS.390
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Description
Isagoge in Tegni Galeni.
Written in a small gothic hand, 40 lines to a page, by the same scribe as that of MS. No.83 (Articella). Initials, headings, and paragraph marks in red.
Fol. 1 (red) Incipiunt [sic] ysagoge Ioannis and tegni Galieni./Medicina diuiditur in duas partes... 6 ... Specierum cognitio v. modis fit. qualitas. aquantitias. [Tempus. ordo.] boni maliue discrepcio [sic]. There are numerous marginal notes, some in a microscopic hand by contemporary and 15th cent. hands-though many of these have been partly shorn in re-binding.
Publication/Creation
Early 14th Century
Physical description
1 volume 6 ll. 8vo. 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 cm. On vellum, modern boards. Outer half of the last leaf torn away; margins badly cropped in rebinding.
Acquisition note
Purchased 1922.
Biographical note
The 'Isagoge' was first printed, as part of the first edition of 'Articella' at Padua c. 1476 (G.K.W. 2678], and as a separate work at Leipzig in 1497.
This MS. was originally part of a larger volume containing MS. No. 613 (Petrus de Albano) and MS. No. 83 (Articella). It has an early foliation 1-6, which is continued in the Articella MS.
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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- 42017