Pseudo-Aristoteles

Secreta secretorum. Translated into Latin by Phillippus Tripoli tanus from the Arabic of Yahyä ibn Batrïq. Written in a clear rounded gothic script, 28 lines to a page. On the first leaf an illuminated initial D in gold and colurs, with marginal decorations of the same. In the lower margin an emblazoned coat of arms, on a shield gules a lion rampant or and argent. Other initials in alternate red and blue. Fol. 1 [D]Omino suo excellentissimo et in cultu christiane/religionis strenuissimo guidoni de valen/tia ciuitatis tripolitane Glorioso pontifici. philippus/suorum minimus clericorum... 4 [Yahyä's Introduction.] [D]Eus omnipotens custodiat Regem nostrum/ad gloriam credentium... 5v, line 2 (Text begins.) [O] Fili gloriosissime imperator confirmet te deus/in via cognitionis in scientia... Fol. 71 (End) ... postquam depinxeris in qua/libet superficie sui planet et quod attrahit/sua specialitas.//DEO GRATIAS AMEN. A few added headings and marginal notes in a late 16th cent. hand.

Late 15th Century

1 volume 71 [72] ll. 4to 22 x 16 cm. 18th cent. vellum binding. Last (blank?) leaf wanting: margins slightly cropped.

Purchased 1911.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).