Italy, Cesena, Biblioteca Malatestiana, S.V.5

Italy, Cesena, Biblioteca Malatestiana, S.V.5

Averroes and Galen
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 118 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 355 x 252 mm
Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    Recent foliation with a pencil in the corner, right corner of recto-folio.
  • Collation:
    I-II^8 (cf. ff. 1r- 16v ) III-IX^10 (cf. ff. 17r- 86v ) X^6 (cf. ff. 87r- 92v ) XI-XIII^8 (cf. ff. 93r- 116v ) XIV^2 (cf. ff. 117r- 118v ) In quinternions. The marks of the Collation are written in the upper right corner of the recto-folio in the first half of the manuscript. The writer used mainly red ink, but also blue or brown, and not consistent but in the most cases followed by Roman numbers.
  • Decoration:
    Beautifully ornated initials on ff. 1r , 18v , 33r , 49r , 70v and 76r . The decoration of this manuscript was made by a painter that used a lot of red ink. It shows four medical figures, one about the usual work of uroscopy. In addition there is a letter decorated on f. 7r .
  • Layout:
    The text is set in two columns.

    About 50 written lines per page.
    No script on ff. 92r- 92v and 118v .
    The cover insides are folios from a manuscript by the hand of the copist Johannes Maguntinus.
  • Hand Description:
    A lot of hands worked on the manuscript: Mainly a Gothic textualis handwriting of two hands namely A (ff. 1r- 91v ): in brown ink with filigree initial letters on the beginning of each paragraph alternation in blue and red ink. B (ff. 93r- 118r ): in brown ink also with initial letters on each paragraph in red and blue alternating, but also with titles in red ink.
  • Binding Description:
    Wooden binding. Metallic elements. The binding was restored.
  • Provenance:
    The manuscript once was property of Giovanni di Marco . On f. 118r an antique signature: "5E". Also signatures in brown and red ink on the frontcover inside: "Il°Fila, / V°Pluteo/ V°" in historical order.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Gerhard Baader , "Die Bibliothek des Giovanni di Marco da Rimini. Eine Quelle zur medizinischen Bildung im Humanismus.", in: Kurt Treu (ed.), Studia codicologica (1977) , p. 46
  • Anna Manfron , Appendice II. Catalogo, a cura di Anna Manfron, in La biblioteca di un medico del Quattrocento. I codici di Giovanni di Marco da Rimini nella Biblioteca Malatestiana, Torino, Allemandi (1998) , pp. 219f.
  • Giuseppe Maria Muccioli , Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Malatestianae Bibliothecae fratrum minorum conventualium Vol. Tomo II, Cesena (1784) , pp. 36f.
  • Raimondo Zazzeri , Sui codici e libri a stampa della Biblioteca Malatestiana di Cesena. Ricerche e osservazioni, Cesena, Vignuzzi (1887) , pp. 300f.
Content
Averroes Colliget 1r - 91v
  • Incipit:
    [Rubr.] Incipit liber qui dicitur colliget in scientia medicina reditus in arabico a Mabumero Anverost qui in latino dicitur Averoys".
    [Prologus] : Quando ventilata fuit .. [Text] : Primus liber tractat de anathomia ..
  • Explicit:
    [Prologus] : ...et eadem sicut nolet. [Text] : ... nostros oculos illuminare dignetur
  • Note:
    No script on ff. 92r- 92v .
Galen De usu partium 93r - 118r
  • Incipit:
    [Rubr.] Incipit liber Galieni de iuvamenti et utilitatibus membrorum translatus a magistro filio Ysaac. Intentio primi libri est determinare de iuvamento manus et iuvamento digitorum. Capitulum primum in quo agit de iuvamento manus in generali
    Inquit Galienus quod corpora animalium...
  • Explicit:
    ...et videmos anathomicos vocantes eas.
  • Note: