Austria, Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 2438

Medical Miscellany
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 147 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 240 x 175 mm
Detailed Description
  • Decoration:
    Little initial letters in blue and normal ink.
  • Layout:
    The text is set in one column .

  • Hand Description:
    A lot of hands worked on the code.
  • Provenance:
    The Aristotelian part "De sompno" is worked out in the 13 th century, the rest in the 14th century.
    Once this code was "Univ., 379".
History
  • Origin Date: 13th and 14th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien: Tabulae codicum manu scriptorum, praeter graecos et orientales in Bibliotheca Palatina Vindobonensi asservatorum, Vol. II: Cod. 2001-3500 (1868) , p. 74f. [2438]
  • Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Manuscripta.at, Mittelalterliche Handschriften in Österreich, Onlinekatalog [Cod. 2438]
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Prior, Rome (1939) , p. 292f.
  • Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Onlinekatalog [Cod. 2438 Han]
Content
Al-Haytham De aspectibus 144r - 147r
  • Incipit:
    Juuenis uisum quum inspexerit luces...
  • Explicit:
    ..nec mutabitur situs eius.
Anonymous Series alphabetica medicamentorum 26r - 27v
Anonymous Hexametri quattuor, quibus ostenditur animalia hominibus quodammodo praestare 123r - 123r
  • Incipit:
    Nos Aper Auditu
  • Explicit:
    Et in aere vivit.
  • Note:
    No script on f. 123v .
Anonymous De appetitu 143v - 143v
  • Incipit:
    Continue alterantur sicut resolvuntur animalia...
  • Explicit:
    ...cum organum non habent.
Aristotle De somno et vigilia 117r - 123r
  • Incipit:
    De sompno autem et vigilia...
Aristotle De motu animalium 124r - 128v
  • Incipit:
    De motu eo quod animalium...
Aristotle De iuventute, De respiratione, De morte 128r - 137r
  • Incipit:
    De juventute autem et senectute, vita et morte dicendum est nunc. Similiter autem et de respiratione...
    De respiratione pauci quidem enim aliqui prius Physicorum dixerunt...
    Quoniam autem dictum est prius...
    De sanitate autem et egritudine non solum est medici...
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 137r - 139r
  • Incipit:
    Iste tractatus incipit perscrutari de rememoratione
  • Explicit:
    ...recursus accidencium suorum dictum est.
Hippocrates De ratione victus in morbis acutis 82r - 88v
  • Incipit:
    Qui de aegrotantium accidentibus in singulis...
  • Explicit:
    ...et in hiis minus congruum qui solo dietantur potu sed in illis aliquando conveniens est....
  • Note:
    Ends incomplete.
Isaac Israeli De elementis 89r - 110v
  • Incipit:
    Ysaac filius Salemonis, Israelita, segregavit sibi de dictis antiquorum...
  • Explicit:
    ...iam igitur removetur ab elementareitate procul dubio.
Isaac Israeli De definitionibus 110v - 116v
  • Incipit:
    Collectiones ex dictis philosophorum, dicta rerum inter descriptiones...
  • Explicit:
    ...visus vero testificatur contrarium.
John of St. Amand De conferentibus et nocentibus humano corpori 1r - 27v
  • Incipit:
    Incipiunt Aureole Johannis de Sancto Amando de conferentibus et nocentibus humano corpori.
    Sicut dicit Galenus primo S[implicium] M[edicinarium], c. VIII, in fine non est impossibile...
  • Explicit:
    ...confortantem.
John of St. Amand Super Antidotarium Nicolai 27r - 78r
  • Incipit:
    Operatio medicine secundum Johannitium in tribus consistit...
  • Explicit:
    ...ad exteriora moveri.
  • Note:
    No script on ff. 78v- 81v
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de memoria et reminiscentia) 137r - 139r
  • Incipit:
    Iste tractatus incipit perscrutari de rememoratione
  • Explicit:
    ...recursus accidencium suorum dictum est.
Averroes Commentary on the Parva Naturalia (Compendium libri de causis longitudinis et brevitatis vite) 137r - 139r