Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4454

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4454

Medical miscellany

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 124 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: not available

Detailed Description

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History
  • Origin Date: 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine: National Library of Medicine (NLM) Catalog [description]
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Content
Anonymous Undefined fragment 1r - 2v
Anonymous Glosa super libro de accidenti et morbo Galieni 3r - 52r
  • Incipit:
    In inicio huius libri etc.
    Iste liber primo dividitur in prohemium et tractatum ...

Dino del Garbo Commentarium super Aphorismos Hippocratis (II 24; I, 12) 52r - 54r
  • Incipit:
    Septimam quarta manifestat etc.
    Intentio Ypocratis in hoc afforismo est ostendere quot et qui sunt dies indicativi et quot et qui sunt dies cretici usque ad diem vigesimam ...

  • Explicit:
    Vel potest dici quod aliquando sit causa crisis imperfecte ... et sic de isto afforismo et commentario eius secundum Dinum de Florentia . Deo gratias. Amen.

Bartholomew of Varignana Supra de interioribus Galieni 55r - 76v
  • Incipit:
    Medicorum non solum moderni etc.
    Ex dictis apparet que sit causa materialis ...

  • Explicit:
    Expliciunt recollectiones libri de interioribus secundum magistrum Bartolomeum de Auragnana [sic]

Bartholomew of Varignana Supra libro de complexionibus Galieni 77r - 85v
  • Incipit:
    [mutil.]: ... versis subjectis. Utraque enim faciet similem passionem in sensu visus

  • Explicit:
    ...quaedam erorem ibi manifestum quidem est ... Expliciunt rationes super libro de complexionibus recollecte sub provido viro magistro B. de Varignana in scolis suis.

  • Note:
    For full text of Bartolomeo's Questiones on this text, see also Ms. Vat. Lat. 4452 (Film C33 no. 4), ff. 57ra-87va (Inc.: Oportet qui curare animam ut antea ... cf. Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre , col. 1013). Partially edited by Francesco Puccinotti , in his Storia della medicina v. 2 (1) pp. cxiii-cxxix (Inc.: Questio ista non est difficilis ... = Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre , col. 1202).

Dino del Garbo De ponderibus et mensuris 85v - 86r
  • Incipit:
    Distinctio mensurarum et ponderum diversificatur tribus modis secundum Avicennam et Serapionem ...

Johannes Vate Questiones libri de animalibus Aristotelis 87r - 99v
  • Incipit:
    Sicut dicitur decimo Ethicorum oportet nos secundum suadentes humana super hominem ...

  • Explicit:
    ...partes et ideo non valent ... Expliciunt questiones super libro de generatione animalium disputate per magistrum Johannem Vath et recollecte per Magistrum Gentilem de Cingulo.

  • Note:
    Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre fail to mention partial edition by Francesco Puccinotti in his Storia della medicina, v. 2 (1) pp. cxxx-cxxxvi). Ernest Wickersheimer Dict. v. 1 p. 172 shows the ascription of this work to Gualterus Agulinus to be incorrect. For Johannes Vath , rector of the university of Paris in 1290, see Martin Grabmann , Mittelalterliches Geistesleben. Bd. III (1956) p. 207, who cites this ms.

Miscellaneous Quedam questiones Dinus de Garbo et aliorum 99v - 104v
  • Incipit:
    Questio proposita in scolis nostris fuit. Utrum aliquis morbus qui esset in patre posset hereditari in filio ...

  • Explicit:
    ... et ne natura communis ut sic dicuntur

Anonymous Quaestio 105r - 105v
  • Incipit:
    Ista questio fuit unius fratris de ordine minorum. Utrum omnes anime rationales sunt equales. Et arguebatur quod sic...

  • Note:
    A theological question from some Brother of the 14th century. Not in Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre .

Thaddaeus de Parma Questio de augmento 105v - 109r
  • Incipit:
    Secundum quod dicit Aristoteles 1[superscript]o Metaphysice veteris inest autem veritatem investigare volentibus ...

  • Explicit:
    Explicit questio de possibilitate et modo augmenti ordinata a M. Tadeo de Parma .

  • Note:
    This questio is mentioned by Martin Grabmann in Mittelalterliches Geistesleben. Bd. III (1956) p. 210.

Alexander Quaestio utrum materia et forma sit eodem realitas 109r - 109r
  • Note:
    Not from the 14th century.

Averroes Commentary on De Animalibus (Capitulum in corde) 109r - 110v
  • Incipit:
    Inc.: Averroys in commento XV. de animalibus sicut illa ...

  • Note:
    Cf. Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre , col. 107 (ff. 109rb-110vb, sic).

Anonymous Undefined fragment 111r - 112v
Averroes Treatise on the Theriac 112v - 115r
  • Incipit:
    Inquit magnus medicus Hamet Averroys postquam deo gratias egero, dicam quod quidam ex amicis meis ...

  • Explicit:
    Explicit quidem tractatus tyriace. Deo gratias. Amen.

Averroes On Poisons 115r - 115v
  • Incipit:
    Omnes species mortiferorum partiuntur in duo genera ...

  • Note:
    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).

Arnaldus de Villanova Regimen sanitatis Libellus 116r - 120r
  • Incipit:
    Raynaldi Yspani ad dominum regem Aragonum de custodia sanitatis. Prima pars vel consideratio sanitatis compositum seu ordinatum a magistro Arnaldo de Villa Nova Cathalano omnium medicorum nunc viventium gemma ...

  • Explicit:
    Explicit Regimentum sanitatis compositum seu ordinatum a magistro Arnaldo de Villa Nova Cathalano omnium medicorum nunc viventium gemma ...

  • Note:
    Not cited in Manuel Cecilio Díaz y Díaz , Index scriptorum Latinorum medii aevi Hispanorum (no. 1680). No script on f. 120v .

Anonymous Commentarius anonymi super I fen I Canonis Avicennae 121r - 124r
  • Incipit:
    In primis deo gratias agamus...