Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.288

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Other label of the document :
- London. Wellcome Collection, MS.288
- London. Wellcome Library, MS.288
- Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.288
- Wellcome Library, MS.288
Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
Date of Origin :
- Early 15th Century (Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections)
Composition :
- 1 volume; 68 folios folio. 31 1/2 x 21 cm. Modern boards. Some margins frayed, and a few damp-stains. In the lower margins is a foliation, by 17th cent. owner.

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Commentary by an unidentified author on the 'Ars parva': the beginning and end wanting. Written in a small semi-current gothic hand, with marginal notes by the same in a still smaller script: with many contractions and without paragraphs: 57-66 lines to a page. Fol. 1 secunda parte declarat de signis corporis optime constitutionis ... 68 ... super discrasias nunc ipsius stomachi sicut sit appetitus ad cibum sicut ad potum / The commentary starts from the beginning of the second book of the 'Ars parva' dealing with the 'iscussion of the 'optima constitutio': it ends abruptly about the last part of the same book, which is concerned with 'digestio'.
Pasted on the verso of the last leaf is a small paper slip (6 1
Purcchased 1910.

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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).