MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 272

Summary Catalogue no.: 18853

Language(s): Latin

1. (fols. 1ra-53ra)

Galen, Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorismata

(tr. Burgundio da Pisa and Niccolò da Reggio)

Incipit: Vita brevis, ars vero longa, tempus acutum, experimentum vero falax, etc.: Quoniam quidem hic sermo sive unius affectus sive duo

Explicit: causam hanc aut non omnino aut vix deglutiunt

Final rubric: Explicit commentum afforismorum secundum translacionem novam de Greco in Latinum; Trinitati gratias infinitas, Amen. Amen. Amen.

Listed Kibre, 'Hippocrates Latinus II', Traditio 32 (1976), 257-292, p. 290

Followed by ten verses:

Incipit: Quae naturalis purgacio sive dieta

2. (fols. 53rb-55ra)

Mesue ('Johannes Damascenus'), Liber aphorismorum

Incipit: Liberet te Deus, fili amantissime, a devio erroris

Ps.-Isidore, Commentary on Liber aphorismorum

Incipit: (commentary) Johannes Damascenus tradens quosdam canones medicine

3. (fols. 55ra-55vb)

Medicine: purgatives

Rubric: De purgantibus ... secundum Dioscoridem ...

Incipit: Elleborus(?) albus purgat fla... cerebri.

eTK 0497K

H. Diels, Die Handschriften der antiken Ärzte, II. Teil: Die übrigen griechischen Ärzte außer Hippokrates und Galenos (1906), 35

4. (fol. 55v-56va)

Medicine: weights and measures

Incipit: Pondera vel mensure, que in arte medica recipiuntur

Final rubric: Expliciunt pondera et mensure secundum Alse gratias Deo.

eTK 1059G, cf. eTK 1058J

Rest of fol. 56v blank.

5. (fols. 57ra-80rb)

Galen, Commentary on Hippocrates' Prognostica (tr. Gerard of Cremona?)

Incipit: Videtur mihi, quod de melioribus rebus est, ut medicus

Incipit: (commentary) Manifestum est, quod non utitur Y. hac dictione

Explicit: et in quibusdam eorum in die lxº

Final rubric: Expliciunt commenta pronosticorum Ypocratis; Trinitati gratias

Listed Kibre, 'Hippocrates Latinus VII', Traditio 37 (1981), 267-289, p. 278

Fol. 80v blank.

6. (fol. 81ra-90vb)

Galen, Tegni (anon. tr.)

Final rubric: Explicit Tengni Galieni, Trinitati gratias

Ends at lib. iii. cap. ccxiiii in edit. Venet.

7. (fol. 91ra-93ra)

Hippocrates, Prognosticorum libri tres

Listed Kibre, 'Hippocrates Latinus VII', Traditio 37 (1981), 267-289, p. 278

8. (fol. 93rb-96rb)

Hippocrates, Regiminis acutorum malorum libri tres priores

Final rubric: Explicit liber Regiminis Acutorum Ypocratis

Listed Kibre, 'Hippocrates Latinus', Traditio 31 (1975), 99-126, p. 115

Fol. 96v blank.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

96 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 295 × 200 mm.

Collation

1(8)-7(8) (fols. 1-56) | 8(8)-10(8) (fols. 57-80) | 11(8)-12(8) (fols. 81-96)

Layout

Frame-ruled partly in ink and partly in crayon.

Fols. 1r-56v: 2 cols., c. 44-53 lines (c. 57 lines for art. 2); written space 200-225 × 135-145 mm.

Fols. 57r-80r: 2 cols., c. 53 lines, written space 200-210 × 130-135 mm.

Fols. 81r-96r: 2 cols., c. 43-45 lines, written space c. 210 × 120-135 mm.

Hand(s)

Southern textualis libraria.

Decoration

Penwork: red letters flourished mauve, and blue letters flourished red; unfinished from fol. 73r onwards.

Binding

Quarter-binding of leather over pasteboards, dyed red; a typical Canonici style.

History

Origin: 14th century, late, or 15th century, early ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Domenico Grimani (fol. 1r)

Bernardo Trevisan (J. B. Mitchell, card catalogue of Canonici provenances)

Jacopo Soranzo (J. B. Mitchell, card catalogue of Canonici provenances)

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Description adapted by Matthew Holford (June 2025) from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854), with additional reference to published literature as cited, and limited additional description.

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 224

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 225

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 323