Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.54

Autre forme de la cote :
- London. Wellcome Collection, MS.54
- London. Wellcome Library, MS.54
- Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.54
- Wellcome Library, MS.54
Conservé à : Londres. Wellcome Library
Date de fabrication :
- Early 14th Century
Composition :
- 1 volume; 2 leaves folio. 25 1/2 x 20 1/2 cm. On vellum.

Notes

Fragment from 'Meterologica' containing parts of Book II, and Book IV. Written in a French gothic book-hand in double column, 39 lines to a column. paragraph marks in red and blue. 1st Leaf, col. 1 [uehemen]tissimum maxime talem ease uehementis/simum quidem igitur ex necessitate quod citissi/me fertur... verso, col. 2 aut post occasum serenitate exeunte/2nd Leaf, col. 1 secundum naturam humidum attrahens humidi/tatem... col. 2 ... solum in elixa/tis. hoc autem utrique erit sicut dicimus/ In the edition of this work in the W.H.M.L. printed at Venice in 1516, these fragmengs are identified as: Folio 419v, col. 1, line 36 to Fol. 420, col. 1, line 3: Fol. 435v, col. 1, line 25 to Fol. 437, col. 1, line 42. In estimating the number of lines, the Commentaries have also been counted in. In W. D. Ross's translation of Aristotles' complete works, these passages occur in Vol. III, Book II, Ch. 8 and Book IV, Ch. 3 of the "Meteorologica'.
In the upper margin of the first leaf is the date 1559 written by a French owner.

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).