Harley MS 2378, ff 7r-11r

Pseudo-Hippocrates, Astrologia medicorum in the Middle English translation, also known as Astrologia Ypocratis, an astrological text relating to medicine and prognostication. Prologue title 'Thys his þe boke of ypocras', incipit: 'In þis book he techyt / for to knowe be planete. seknesse. lyf. and deth'. / and þe times þerof', incipit: 'Ffirst seyth Ipocras þt a leche / xal take kepe of þe mone wanne he is atte þe full', explicit: 'here endyth þe boke of Ypocras / of deth and of lyf translat\e/ of astronomerys / þe beste super avicenna'. With diagrams.

Other copies of the translation are Additional MS 12195 (ff. 185r-190r), Harley MS 1736 (ff. 232r-234r) and Sloane MS 73 (ff. 132v-136r). For the copy of one of the Latin versions see Harley MS 2375 (ff. 89r-90r, 91r-94r).

The Middle English text is edited in Medieval Lunar Astrology 1993. The initial lines were published in G. Henslow, Medical Works of the Fourteenth Century together with a List of Plants recorded in Contemporary Writings, with their Identifications (London, 1899), pp. 76-77. See also P. Kibre, Hippocrates latinus. Repertorium of Hippocratic Writings in the Latin Middle Ages, (New York, 1985), p. 107. Listed in A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050-1500, ed. by A. E. Hartung and G. R. Keiser, Science and Information (New Haven, 1998), p. 3779, no. [116]; L. E. Voigts and P. D. Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD-ROM, 2nd edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2006), no. 1705.00.