Fragment from Aphorisms with commentary, between 1250 and 1299?

Name:

Hippocrates

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1250

Description:

Lower part of a leaf from a large manuscript of the Hippocratic Aphorisms, probably written in Italy in the second half of the 13th century, later used for a binding. The parent manuscript was written in 2 columns, with the aphorisms written in a large Gothic hand separated by paragraphs of commentary in a smaller Gothic hand. The aphorisms on this fragment are from Book 5 (Aphorisms 55 and 58 on the more damaged recto and Aphorisms 60 and 62 on the verso) and concern disease and pregnancy. Two readers have annotated the leaf, one adding interlinear and brief marginal notes in a tiny cursive hand, the other writing extensive notes in the lower margins in a somewhat larger cursive hand. The notes in the lower margin on the verso are a quotation from Aristotle's Problemata referring to delectabilia. The recto was the outside of the binding and has the numeral V on what was the spine and a note in ink, Supplice essortationi, in Italian by a later hand.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Maggs Bros. (London), 2004.; Gift of Daniel and Eleanor Albert, in the Dr. Daniel and Eleanor Albert Medical Ephemera Collection, 2014.; Albert, Daniel M., former owner.; Albert, Eleanor, former owner.

Subject:

Medicine, Medieval; Gynecology -- Early works to 1800; Gynecology

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions); Commentaries; Annotations; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : parchment; 180 x 270 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

In Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 591 Folder 41

Collection:

Manuscript Fragment Collection