Layout: 35-39 long lines, pricked, ruled in ink (drypoint ruling on f. 1r); the particula numbered in arabic numbers in black ink in the margin and in red roman numerals within the text. Script: Gothic Decoration: Red two-line initials placed outside the body of the text Binding: Bound in modern paper boards, now detached. Previous foliation reads 31-37, showing that the present book represents one piece of an earlier volume. Number of scribes: 1 Provenance: Bought by the New York Academy of Medicine in memory of the lawyer and Jewish leader, Louis Marshall (1856-1929) in 1930 from the bookseller (1870-1944, in Lucca, in New York and in Lugano), Joseph/Giuseppe Martini through L. C. Harper. 1 gathering of 6 leaves (+1 at beginning of the gathering) P. Kibre, “Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic Writings in the Latin Middle Ages (II),” Traditio 32 (1976) 257-292, esp. p. 272 for this manuscript (although the call number is cited in error as “8”), among the copies dating from the 12th century (but in fact ms is 13th century) This manuscript ends in Aph. 59 (although Kibre cites it with the explicit of Aph. 60). With extensive marginal and interlinear notes by several different hands. Added on f. 7v at the end of the book: Dividitur liber iste in septem particulas in quarum prima ipse ? de ? de causis pertinentibus ad sanitatem scilicet de medicatione et dieta. In secunda de signis sanis et egris. In tercia de egretudinibus que creantur ab extrinsecis et intrinsecis. In quarta de exhibitione medicinarum laxatarum. In quinta de nocumentis et iuvamento quod provenit exhibitione verbum laxarum et etiam de propriis egritudinibus mulierum. In sexta de egritudinis communis. In septima et ultima de egritudinibus acutis.
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