Galenus, Microtegni
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Observations based on the Gallica retro-digitizations
General Information
Original Condition
Probably two quinternions. Four bifolia from the first gathering are continguous, with Latin 15955, ff. 1-2 being the innermost bifolium; Latin 15955, ff. 484-483 is the innermost bifolium of the next gathering. Each leaf of text covers between approximately 93 and 104 lines of the 1490 Venice edition, and the gap from the outermost bifolium in the first gathering to the beginning of the bifolium from the second gathering is 501 lines, or five leaves. Therefore, it seems reasonable to suspect that the first gathering is missing its outermost bifolium (which may have also had the prologue), and the remaining four leaves belong to the next quinternion.
Current Condition
Having been reused in the bindings of books, probably as pastedowns and flyleaves, in the library of the Sorbonne, not all leaves are legible; the attachment of a chain to the books can be seen in several places.
Content
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Content Item
- Persons Galenus
- Text Language Latin
- Title Microtegni, Translatio Anonyma
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Content Description
Contains the Microtegni, from Book I, Medicina est sanorum (Pinzi ed.: bb3ra, l. 49) to Book II, lesionibus (?) operationum aut egestionibus (bb5v, l. 50). And again from Book III, frigidus et humidius inquantum manifestatio predessit (bb7va, l. 41) to non vehemens sit diaforeticum farmacum (bb8rb, l. 56).
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- Glosses and Additions interlinear glosses and occasional marginal notes.
- Edition Galenus, Opera, Venice (Pinzi), 1490, bb3r-bb8v
History
All four fragments come from codices containing sermon material from Paris from the thirteenth century. Latin 15951 and 15955 came from Robert de Sorbon himself, who died in 1274; Latin 16488 came from the donation of Godfrey of Fontaines (d. 1306?); these three host volumes are all attested in the 1338 Catalog. Latin 16475 was a donation of James of Padua, Master of Arts, Medicine, and Theology, who died after 1354. Thus the four host volumes were likely rebound some time later, and the fragmentation and reuse of the leaves dates to the late fourteenth century at the earliest. It is possible that, prior to fragmentation, this manuscript was part of the libri medicinales contained in the Sorbonne library.