Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. lat. 178

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. lat. 178

Medical works of mainly Galen

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: not available
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  • Dimensions: not available

Detailed Description
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History
  • Origin Date: 1329-1330
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny , "Pietro d'Abano traducteur de Galien, In Medioevo", in: Rivista di storia della filosofia medievale 11 (1985) , 36
  • Giuseppe Dell'Anna , "Approccio bibliografico al tema dei dies critici nella letteratura medica occidentale tra il medioevo e l'età moderna", in: Rudiae. Ricerche sul mondo classico 7 (1996) , 167
  • Stefania Fortuna & Annamaria Raia , "Corrigenda and Addenda to Diels’ Galenica by Richard J. Durling: III. Manuscripts and editions", in: Traditio. Studies in ancient and medieval history, thought and religion 61 (2006) , 8, 11, 14, 19, 23
  • Irina Galynina & Jan Hagen Krüger , "Averroes’ Medical Treatise De venenis and Its Latin Manuscript Tradition. With an Edition and Translation of the Text", in: Raphaela Veit & Carsten Schliwski (ed.), Averroes as a Physician – Intellectual and Social Contexts of Medicine in Al-Andalus (forthcoming)
  • Josep Perarnau i Espelt , "L' Apologia de Versutiis atque peruersitatibus pseudotheologorum et religiosorum ad magistrum Jacobum Albi, canonicum dignensem D'Arnau de Vilanova", in: Arxiu de Textos Catalans Antics 20 (2001) , 13
  • Theodore Silverstein , Medieval latin scientific writings in the Barberini Collection: a provisional catalogue, Chicago (1957)
  • Sever J. Voicu , "Note sui palinsesti conservati nella Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana", in: Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae XVI (2009) , 454
Content
Galen Methodus medendi (with Peter’s addition) 3r - 44r
  • Note:
    Trans. Burgundio of Pisa (bks. 7-14) ant Peter Abano (end of bk. 14)

Galen De temperamentis 45r - 58r
Galen De morborum causis 58r - 73r
Galen De crisibus (transl. by Gerard of Cremona) 73v - 91v
Averroes On Poisons 91v - 102v
  • Incipit:
    Omnes species mortiferorum...

  • Explicit:
    ...zucchari et oleum ipsorum et illo utatur.

  • Note:
    Digital copy difficult to read; for details and critical edition cf. I. Galynina/J. H. Krüger, Averroes’ Medical Treatise De venenis and Its Latin Manuscript Tradition. With an Edition and Translation of the Text, in: R. Veit/C. Schliwski (eds.), Averroes as a Physician – Intellectual and Social Contexts of Medicine in Al-Andalus (forthcoming).

Galen De inaequali intemperie (transl. by Gerard of Cremona) 103r - 104v