Galenus (129-199)
This Merovingian composite manuscript, which was created in Bourges, originally consisted of six independent parts, which were written by different, often not very practiced hands in various phases. Most of the close to thirty individual pieces are texts from grammatical, patristic, computistic and medical works. The longer pieces are interspersed with further excerpts, partly written in Tironian notes. One quaternio from the only partially preserved third part is today held in Paris (BN lat. 10756). Noteworthy is the palimpsest in the fifth part, whose undertexts were probably written in Italy in the 7th century and in the second half of the 5th century respectively.
Online Since: 03/17/2016
- Galenus: Epistula De febribus. (82r)
Incipit: XXI. Epistula Gallieni de febribus. Multa genera febrium nascuntur in hominibus ex mutationis temporum, aetate, labore, aebrietate, ex amaritudine et ex aliis multis causis
Explicit: potest elimentum ipsius fovendo diversa folia vini et appii, menta, beta et alias in aqua citando frequenter in ipso loco. Explecit.
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- Galenus: Epistula De febribus. (82v–85v) Found in: Standard description
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Asper (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Dionysius, Exiguus (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Gargilius Martialis, Quintus (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Methodius, Olympius (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus (Author) | Pithou, Pierre (Former possessor) | Pomerius, Iulianus (Author) | Taio, Caesaraugustanus (Author) Found in: Standard description
Ten leaves from a manuscript in two parts containing the medical treatises of Isaac Judaeus and Johannes Afflacius. This fragment came to Bern in 1632 as part of the bequest of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
- Galenus: Quos, quibus, et quando purgare oporteat (Exzerpt). (4r-v)
Incipit: Excerptum de libro Galienis. Qui sani sunt corpore in purgationibus debilitantur
Explicit: et statim purgatio incipiet et si incepta fuerit amplius provocabitur.
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- Afflacius Johannes (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Galenus (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isaac, Iudaeus (Author) Found in: Standard description
Four bound bifolia from a medical manuscript, likely produced in Eastern France, containing excerpts from an antidotary and from Isaac Judaeus' De diaetis universalibus. The two leaves added at the end present excerpts from the Liber alter de dynamidiis, other excerpts of a theological nature, and medical recipes. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
- Isaac, Iudaeus: Auszüge aus einem Antidotarium; Isaac Judaeus: De diaetis universalibus; Ps.-Galenus: Liber alter de dynamidiis; Sententiae ex libro Proverbiorum; Medizinische Rezepte; Exzerpte (Fragment). Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: Liber alter de dynamidiis (Fragment). (6v) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: Liber alter de dynamidiis. (9r–v)
Incipit: ficiat pro eo fiet solutio egritudinis. Urina cum sudore, si in febrium aumento venerit Urina lucida valde frenesin significat. He ambe, id est causon et sinochus (9v) crisin cum aliquo dolore futuram dicit. Urina nigra quartanam nuntiat demonstrat egrotum. Quartanes febres in initio pulsum faciunt rarum
Explicit: parvus pulsus est, qui levi ictu ambitum arterie tetendit et inspicientium digitos breviter pulsaverit.
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Galenus (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isaac, Iudaeus (Author) | Johannes, Scotus Eriugena (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript from the 14th century unites four disquisitions on medicine. The rounded Gothic script is the product of several different hands and the principal incipits are set off with Gothic capitals elaborately decorated with penwork filigree. At the end of the manuscript is an assortment of formulas for medical preparations.
Online Since: 06/02/2010
- Galenus: Ps. Galenus, De dynamidiis (f. 5) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: De dynamidiis. (f. 225-263v:) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: (De Dynamidiis), Capitula. (f. 227-227v:) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: De dynamidiis (f. 261v col. 2) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: Item de cirurgia. (f. 261v col. 2-263v col. 1) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: Epistula (f. 260:) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Celotti, Luigi (Former possessor) | Dioscorides, Pedanius (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Gualterus, Agulinus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) | Richardus, de Wendover (Author) | Rogerus, de Parma (Author) Found in: Standard description
A composite manuscript consisting of sections from three datable periods, the first from the 10th century, the other two from the 12th century. The first part (1-222) contains glosses on Priscian, the second (223-310) a collection of medical tracts assembled by Constantinus Africanus, the third part (311-357) contains the Liber Tegni by Galen (129/131-199/201).
Online Since: 12/19/2011
- Galenus: Liber Tegni Galieni (Seite 311-357)
Incipit: Tres sunt omnes doctrine que ordine habemus
Explicit: qui et perscribens quot sind et qualia determinabo orationem in eis.
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- Anonymus (Author) | Constantinus, Africanus (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Ḥunain, Ibn-Isḥāq (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) | Theophilus, Protospatharius (Author) Found in: Standard description
For about twenty years it has been known that this extremely old manuscript contains medical texts by two different authors, whereas the contents of the entire volume had previously been attributed to Galen. The two parts are: 1. Galen's Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo Lib. I-III (which does not, however, follow the correct sequence of that text), and 2. Pelagonius , Ars veterinaria. The beginning and the end of this text are missing.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
- Galenus: Galenus. Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo. Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo (Seite 4-181) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: Galenus. Liber tertius (70)
Incipit: I. Certe de maximis causis
Explicit: interdum absteneant frigida et ab omni frigore.
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- Galenus: Galenus. Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo Liber II. (101)
Incipit: Quam maxime diuersitatis flegmone idest de feruoribus
Explicit: 170manifesta ratione conscribam.
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- Galenus: Galenus, Libri tertii extracta (170)
Incipit: 172Colicum sic agnuscis
Explicit: 181dactolus quinque et mela cito
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- Galenus (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Annotator) | Pelagonius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo (pp. 4-70)
Incipit: V Nunc vero incipiamus dicere de acutis febribus et periculosis
Explicit: si duplex est, ter tangitur; si quatroplex, quater.
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- Galenus: Liber tertius, exc. (pp. 70-101)
Incipit: Certe de maximis causis, que in corporibus humanis nascuntur, ut pollecitus sum breviter exponere incipiens nunc de cefalargicis. Cefalargia est dolor capitis, qui multum temporis tenet
Explicit: interdum absteneant frigida et ab omni frigore.
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- Galenus: Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo L. II (pp. 102-171)
Incipit: Incipiens nunc, o Glaucon, tibi exponere quam maxime diversitatis flegmone
Explicit: quanta possum sciencia manifesta racione conscribam.
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- Galenus: Liber tertius (pp. 171-181)
Incipit: Colicum sic agnuscis
Explicit: in pusca cocis dactolus quinque et mela cito || forse mutilo.
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- Galenus (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Annotator) | Pelagonius (Author) Found in: Additional description
This is a 16th century paper manuscript with a watermark. The medical text contains the eleven books of Galen's De simplicium medicamentorum [temperamentis ac] facultatibus. The narrow and «pointue» (pointed) script is reminiscent of that of Demetrius Moschus, a Greek humanist who was active in Venice and Ferrara (middle of the 15th century – after 1519). This copy is incomplete, as attested by several blank spaces intended to hold illuminated initials. The codex was purchased by Aleandre Petau in 1655. It was passed on to the pastor and theologian Ami Lullin and, after his death, it was bequeathed to the Bibliothèque de Genève.
Online Since: 03/29/2019
- Galenus: De simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus Found in: Standard description
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- Galenus (Author) | Lullin, Ami (Former possessor) | Petau, Alexandre (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
Books of the Old Testament, a gift of Bishop John of Constanz (760-782) to the monastery of St. Gall; compendium of 27 medical and pharmaceutical treatises by known and unknown authors of the 9th century.
Online Since: 09/14/2005
- Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Democritus, Abderita (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Placitus, Sextus (Author) | Plinius Secundus <Iunior> (Author) | Sedulius, Caelius (Author) | Serenus, Quintus (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Democritus, Abderita (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Placitus, Sextus (Author) | Plinius Secundus <Iunior> (Author) | Sedulius, Caelius (Author) | Serenus, Quintus (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Additional description
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- Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Democritus, Abderita (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Placitus, Sextus (Author) | Plinius Secundus <Iunior> (Author) | Sedulius, Caelius (Author) | Serenus, Quintus (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Democritus, Abderita (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Placitus, Sextus (Author) | Plinius Secundus <Iunior> (Author) | Sedulius, Caelius (Author) | Serenus, Quintus (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Additional description
A compendium of 39 medical texts by known and unknown authors, produced in the second half of the 9th century, most likely in northern Italy, already obtained at an early date by the Abbey Library of St. Gall. This codex includes—sometimes in unique exemplars—an alphabetically ordered Greek-Latin herbal glossary, the treatise De re medica by one Pseudo-Plinius (Physica Plinii), and a longer medical tract entitled Liber Esculapii.
Online Since: 12/23/2008
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- Anthemius, Trallianus (Author) | Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Arsenius, Hypselites (Author) | Aurelius, Esculapius (Author) | Brasavola, Antonio Musa (Author) | Caelius, Aurelianus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Democritus, Abderita (Author) | Dioscorides, Pedanius (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Platon (Author) | Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: Liber tertius, exc. (pp. 293-304)
Incipit: Mandi de vena epatica et post sexto die aut pigra aut cera aut catartica accipiant
Explicit: ipsa aqua bibat in balneo, prode est.
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- Galenus: Liber de urinis (pp. 324-333)
Incipit: Inter hominibus , que de febribus scripta sunt
Explicit: laborem corporis et frigus inminentem et macie et venturis significat
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- Galenus: Epistula de febribus (pp. 370-372)
Incipit: Multa genera febrium cum nascuntur in hominem et mutationes temporum
Explicit: potione dabis ei ad deponendum prode est.
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- Galenus: Liber tertius, exc. (p. 452) Found in: Additional description
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- Anthemius, Trallianus (Author) | Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Arsenius, Hypselites (Author) | Aurelius, Esculapius (Author) | Brasavola, Antonio Musa (Author) | Caelius, Aurelianus (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Democritus, Abderita (Author) | Dioscorides, Pedanius (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Platon (Author) | Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Additional description
A collection of ten assorted medical tracts, written in the first half of the 9th century in an Insular, likely Celtic, script with continental influences. Among the prescriptions (on page 91) is a blessing with the cross to be used as “Schutzbrief gegen die Versuchungen des Teufels und gegen Fieber” (insurance against temptations by the Devil and against fever). The manuscript also contains, for example, extracts from the Conspectus ad Eustathium filium by Oribasius (4th century AD), a physician of late antiquity, the Epistula de febribus by the Greek physician Galen († 216 AD), and a Liber medicinalis by an unknown author.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Galenus: Epistula de febribus (41-45)
Incipit: Multa genera febrium nascuntur in homines ex mutationis temporum
Explicit: haec et refrigerant et sitem tollunt.
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A collection of medical texts in a small-sized manuscript with selections from works by the ancient Greek physicians and authors Hippocrates (about 460-370 BC), Galen (about 129-about 216) and Oribasius (about 320-400), written in Insular (?) minuscule script in about 800, not at the abbey of St. Gall.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Galenus: Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo L. I, exc. (11-18)
Incipit: Oportet etiam ad creticis diebus non simile requie hoc maxime scienda
Explicit: haec ergo ratio atque observatio est.
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- Galenus: Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo L. I, exc. (32-50)
Incipit: Nunc vero incipiamus dicere de causis febrium et periculum synocis
Explicit: ( De planitis febribus ) per quem humore an febris amputentur.
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- Galenus: De homotano (32-50) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: De agmastico (32-50) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: De aepagmastico (32-50) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: De febribus senocorum (32-50) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: Ad incidendas febres (32-50) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: De cotidianis, tertianis et quartanis febribus (32-50) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: De quartane diverse (32-50) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: De cottidianis (32-50) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: De tertiana nota (32-50) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: De duobus tertianis coniunctis (32-50) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: De signa duarum cotidianarum (32-50) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: De planitis febribus (32-50) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Soranus, Ephesius (Author) Found in: Standard description
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A small-format compendium of ten different medical texts, produced shortly after 800 in an unknown scriptorium, probably in Italy. The contents also include a treatise by the Greek physician Anthimus in the form of a letter to the king of the Franks Theoderich "On the diet" (De observatione ciborum), through which we gain insight to the nutritional habits of one Germanic people.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
- Galenus: Galen de simpl. med. lib. VI (S. 138-184) Found in: Standard description
- Anthemius, Trallianus (Author) | Anthimus, Medicus (Author) | Apuleius, Madaurensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Gargilius Martialis, Quintus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Oribasius (Author) | Platon (Author) | Vindicianus, Afer (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Galenus: Galeno, De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis et facultatibus L. VI, exc. (pp. 138-184)
Incipit: Aloen virtutem habet calidam et confortat et siccat
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