tia00309000

Text-inc Id:

tia00309000

Headings:

Albertus Magnus Secreta mulierum et virorum (cum commento).

Subjects:

medicine

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Titlepage]. ‘Albertus Magnus de Secretis mulierum et virorum.’
2. a2r [Preface]. Incipit: ‘[S]cribit philosophus philosophorum princeps quarto Ethicorum: Homo est optimum eorum que sunt in mundo ...’ a2v Explicit: ‘... Et supponitur philosophie naturali que est unus liber de parvis naturalibus, et non pure naturalis, sed partim medicinalis.’ [Several editions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries].
3. a2v Albertus Magnus [pseudo-]: Secreta mulierum et virorum. ‘Incipiunt Secreta mulierum et virorum ab Alberto magno composita.’ Incipit: ‘[D]ilecto sibi in Cristo socio et amico N. clerico de tali loco vere sapiencie et augmentum continuum vite presentis ...’ g6r Explicit: ‘... et sine fine eternitas sanctorum extat omnium per infinita secula seculorum. Amen. | Laus Deo.’ [For a paraphrase of the contents see Thorndike II 739-45. On authorship and the history of the text see Meersseman 145-8; Glorieux, Répertoire, 6 du; Christoph Ferckel, ‘Zur Bibliographie der Secreta mulierum', Sudhoffs Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin, 7 (1914), 47-8; Christoph Ferckel, ‘Die Secreta mulierum und ihr Verfasser', Sudhoffs Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin, 38 (1954), 267-74; Thorndike, ‘Further Consideration', 427-43. For an account of recent research see Brigitte Kusche, ‘Zur Secreta-mulierum-Forschung', Janus, 62 (1975), 103-23; Kristian Bosselmann-Cyran, “Secreta mulierum” mit Glosse in der deutschen Bearbeitung von Johann Hartlieb. Text und Untersuchungen, Würzburger medizinhistorische Forschungen, 36 (Hannover, 1985), 9-14; Margaret Schleissner, ‘Secreta mulierum', VL VIII 986-91].
4. a2v [Commentary on] Secreta mulierum et virorum. Incipit: ‘Iste libellus, cuius subiectum est contra ens mobile contractum ad naturam secretorum mulierum, ut ipsis infirmantibus possumus dare remedia et ipsis confitentibus scire debite ad delictum ...’ g2r Explicit: ‘... Quid enim continent alementa in mixto nisi animam unum anima est principium omnis actionis, sed calor sive spiritus sunt instrumenta que sunt in virtute anime et non in virtute sui ipsius.’ [On commentaries on the ‘Secreta mulierum' see Thorndike, ‘Further Consideration', 427-43].

Imprint:

[Leipzig Conrad Kachelofen about 1490] 4° Pseudo- Albertus Magnus (Hillard 55) Secundo folio: a2r [S]cribit philosophus philosopho

Collation:

a-e⁸ f-g⁶. Spaces left blank for initials, without printed guide letters.

References:

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