tih00277500

Text-inc Id:

tih00277500

Bod-inc Id:

H-126

Headings:

Hippocrates De natura hominis.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Table of contents.] The table of contents lists ‘De victu' and ‘De tuenda valetudine' although they are not included in this edition.
2. [a1v] Brentius, Andreas: [Introductory verse dedicated to] Franciscus Dedus [i.e. Diaedus]. Incipit: ‘Res variae a multis certatim dantur amicis | Grata recessuro munera Dede tibi'; 2 elegiac distichs.
3. [a2r] Brentius, Andreas: [Letter addressed to] Sixtus IV, Pont. Max. ‘Xysto .iiii. Pontifice Maximo Andreas Brentius Patauinus salutem plurimam dicit.’ Incipit: ‘[D]um in Exquilinam habitationem Oliuerii Cardinalis Neapolitani principis mei . . .’
4. [a3v] Hippocrates: De natura hominis. This and the following works translated by Andrea Brentius as stated at the end of the table of contents. Incipit: ‘[Q]ui consueuit audire eos qui de humana natura . . .’ see Jacques Jouanna, Hippocrate: La nature de l'homme, Corpus medicorum Graecorum (Berlin, 1975); also Kibre, Hippocrates latinus, XLI.A.3; on the translation see Livia Martinoli Santini, ‘Le traduzioni dal greco', in Un pontificato ed una città, 81-101, note 53.
5. [c1v] Brentius, Andreas: [Letter addressed to] Cardinal Oliverius [Carafa]. Incipit: ‘[A]ltero Crasso censore nunc opus esset, Oliueri princeps optime . . .’ See Andrea Brenta, Discorso sulle discipline per l'inaugurazione dell'anno accademico nello Studium Urbis, ed. Maurizio Campanelli (Rome, 1995), the introduction p. 18.
6. [c2v] Hippocrates: Medicinae lex. Incipit: ‘[M]edicina est omnium artium celeberrima . . .’ See Kibre, Hippocrates latinus, XXXVI.A.4.
7. [c3v] Brentius, Andreas: [Letter addressed to] Johannes [Arcimboldus], Cardinal of Novara. Incipit: ‘[G]rauis certe mihi et peracerba luctuosissimaque fuit mors Ianeti Cyprii medici tui . . .’
8. [c3v] Hippocrates: Iusiurandum. Incipit: ‘[T]estor Appollinem medicum et Aesculapium Hygeamque . . .’ See A‑457; Kibre, Hippocrates latinus, XXXV.A.4, with this edition listed at p. 182.
9. [c4v] Brentius, Andreas: [Letter addressed to] Hieronymus Trapolinus. Incipit: ‘[N]on est idonea causa, Hieronyme, cur aliquis Hippocratem dialecticae ignarum fuisse . . .’
10. [c5r] Hippocrates: Demonstratio quod artes sunt. Incipit: ‘[M]ihi certe uidetur nulla omnino ars esse, quae non sit . . .’ See Kibre, Hippocrates latinus, V.A.
11. [c5v] Brentius, Andreas: [Letter addressed to] Iacobus Sangenisius. Incipit: ‘[V]erum illud est, Iacobe, quod communi sermone usurpari solet . . .’
12. [c6r] Hippocrates: Invectiva in obtrectatores medicinae. Incipit: ‘[S]unt nonnulli qui artem putarunt artes uitio dare . . .’ See Kibre, Hippocrates latinus, V.A.

Imprint:

[Rome: Georgius Herolt, c.1481]. 4°. As assigned by CIBN; IGI assigns to [Stephan Plannck, c.1490]; Kibre dates [1486-90].

Collation:

[a⁸ b c⁶]. Type: 112 R. 20 leaves. 27 lines ([a3r]). Type area: 150 × 88 mm. ([a3r]).

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ih00277500 HR 8670; Goff H‑279; Pr 3795; CIBN H‑144; IGI 4785; Sheppard 3124. LCN: 14508682

Copies:

1. H-126(1) Copy Binding: Italian late eighteenth-century(?) half green morocco. Size: 220 × 151 × 10 mm. Size of leaf: 213 × 145 mm. On [c6v] manuscript annotation in a sixteenth/seventeeth-century Italian hand: ‘Nota quod uis negandi non transit nisi in terminos seguentes. Potestas silogismi secundum Aristotelem est plura concludere idest due premisse possunt plures conclusiones i[n]cludere.’ Provenance: Albergotti family (eighteenth century); ‘Alberghotti' in pencil on front pastedown. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark no. 728, see Catalogue (1831); sale, Catalogue (1841), lot 435. Purchased for £0. 16. 6; see Books Purchased (1842), 23. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 5.12.