Galen, Claudius (131-201)

Liber TTegni (Ars parva). On fol. 1, two ornamental initials in red and green, other capitals and headings in red. Fol. 1 (red) Incipit tenni [sic] galieni archiatros./TRes sunt omnes doctrine que ab ordine habentur pri/ma quidem est... 21v ... alias immo for/sitan uel duobus libris inscriptionem habituris. Galieni de propriis cons/criptionibus. Explicit liber. Christus laudetur quia libri finis abetur [sic] (red) Explicit Tegni. ['ypocratis' partly deleted].

Early 14th Century

1 volume 21 [24] ll. 8vo. 20 x 13 cm. On vellum, 19th cent. stamped calf binding. TThree (blank?) leaves have been cut out at the end. Written in a small neat gothic hand, 36 lines to a page.

Purchased 1936.

First printed, as part of the first edition of 'Articella', at Padua, c. 1476 [G.K.W. 2678].

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).