Layout: 31 long lines, ruled in a purple-shaded ink, with double rules on either side of the text (to accommodate the initial letters of each aphorism); this same purple-shaded ink also used for the rubrics. Space reserved for 2-line major initials. Script: Cursive gothic bookhand Binding: Bound in paper sheets; formerly bound in modern paper boards. Watermark: Piccard-Online: a bull’s head, without eyes or nose, surmounted by a crown and the crown surmounted by a flower, somewhat similar to the image DE6300-PO-64170, from Nürnberg, 1542 (although date does not match, paleographically). Number of scribes: 1 Provenance: Probably obtained from the bookseller Ludwig Rosenthal (1840-1928). Bookplate of Dr. Edward Clark Streeter (1874-1947) preserved in the case with the book. The manuscript was purchased from him by the New York Academy of Medicine in 1928. Stamp in lower margin of f. 1v of the NYAM with penned-in date: Mar. 13, 1936. Juan A. Paniagua, “Las Medicationis parabolae del Maestro Arnau de Vilanova: consideraciones en torno a la elaboración de su texto critico,” Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam 2 (1982) 75-96, this manuscript cited with the siglum Ny on pp. 77 (in the list of 41 manuscripts Note that the call number for this manuscript is cited incorrectly as n. 3), 79 (in text and in footnote 9), 80, 81-82, 90 and in the sample edition of the first 20 aphorisms. See also Juan A. Paniagua and Pedro Gil-Sotres, Arnaldi de Villanova Opera medica omnia VI.2 (Barcelona 1993) p. 261, citing this manuscript. For this addition to the text, see Paniagua (1982), p. 89.
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