Harley MS 3748, ff 208v-210v

The anonymous Latin version of Galen's short treatise on complexiones or parts of the human body and the nature and causes of fevers, variously entitled in the manuscript tradition De malicia complexionis diverse, De mala complexione diversa, or De inaequali intemperie. The Latin translation was based on Arabic sources and in the manuscripts was occasionally attributed to Gerardus Cremonensis (c. 1114-1187), an attribution accepted in Luis García-Ballester, 'The New Galen: A Challenge to Latin Galenism in Thirteenth-Century Montpellier', in Galen and Galenism (Aldershot, 2002), V, p. 70 n. 93.

Rubric (f. 208v): 'incipit liber Galieni. de malicia complectionis', incipit: 'Malicia complectionis diverse quandoque in toto / animali corpore existit', explicit (f. 210v): 'post ipsum librum de ingenio sanitatis. / explicit liber de malicia complectionis diverse'.

Other copies of the text are Additional MS 22669 (ff. 45v-47v), Harley MS 5425 (ff. 53v-56v). For the Latin text see L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, rev. edn. (London, 1963), p. 846f and its electronic version, no. 846F; see also R. J. Durling, 'Corrigenda and addenda to Diels' Galenica', I: 'Codices vaticani', Traditio 23 (1967), 461-76 (p. 466 no. 55a), and II: 'Codices miscellanei', Traditio, 37 (1981), 373-81 (pp. 375-376, no. 55a).

First printed at Venice on 27 Aug. 1490 by P. Pincius: for references to the edition see item 1 above, and Richard J. Durling, 'A Chronological Census of Renaissance Editions and Translations of Galen', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 24 (1961), 230-305 (p. 286 no. 55a). For the Greek text, see Kühn, C. Galeni Opera Omnia (Leipzig 1821-1833; repr. Hildesheim, 1964), VII, pp. 733-52.