Followed by short chapters on the description and preparation of medicines, pastes and drinks. and On the body and sickness. Ends abruptly in Maqālah 7, faṣl 43 (of 60).
Description:
According to most sources, Hippocrates did not write a work with this title; Dioscurides did, but the text differs from the present one., May be later than sixteenth century., Purchased from Hassan Sami in 1991 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Water-stained and badly worm-eaten, affecting text., and With: 1 other title.
Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of letters, attributed to Hippocrates (ff. 1r-50v). Also includes a series of epitaphs (ff. 51r-53v); incipit: Caesari sacrum Ennius Montanus fecit auxit. Concludes with a collection of pseudo-classical letters of unknown Renaissance authorship (ff. 54r-72v): correspondence between Marius Appius and Latianus (2 letters, 54r-55r), letters by and to Curtius Rufus (22 letters, ff. 56r-73v), and a letter by Genutius to the Roman senate (1 letter, ff. 73r-74r). Leaves 50, 73-77 are blank
Alternative Title:
[Epistolae : translated into Latin by Alamanno Rinuccini].
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: historiated gold initial showing king seated on a throne (Ataxerxes?), with sword and orb in hand, and full border decoration including animals, puti, and human figures (f. 1r); five-line gold initial on blue frame (f. 25r); 2-line gold initials on purple and blue frames; gold capital letters. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 15 lines., Binding: old burgundy velvet over parchment., and Foliation added in modern pencil.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Hippocratic oath. With a text headed Nicolaus Perottus Jaboco Constantio, and a portion of De Primo bello Punico, by Leonardi Bruni Aretini
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444. and Hippocrates.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Greek and Roman, and Punic War, 1st, 264-241 B.C.
