Harley MS 3140, ff 7v-21r

Galen, Tegni or Ars medica. The Latin version of a medical compendium written by the Greek physician and philosopher Galen (c. 130-200), also known as Galenus (129-210). The present Latin version was probably made in Southern Italy in the mid-12th century, and was often identified in the manuscript tradition as the Translatio antiqua: see R. J. Durling, 'Lectiones galenicae: Techne iatrike (Kühn, I, 305-412)', Classical Philology, 63 (1968), pp. 56-57; P. G. Ottosson, Scholastic Medicine and Philosophy: A Study of Commentaries on Galen's 'Tegni' (ca. 1300-1450) (Naples, 1984), pp. 24-25.

Title: 'Incipit tegni Galieni de corporibus et signis et causis et sanis egris et neutris', incipit: 'Tres sunt omnes doctrine que ordine habentur', explicit: 'et prescribens quot sint et qualia / determinabo orationem in eis'. With glosses.

For the Latin translation of the text see L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 29 (London, 1963; with supplements in 1965 and 1968), pp. 1585i and j, and its electronic version on CD-ROM edn (Ann Arbor, MI, 2000), nos. 1585 I and J; R. J. Durling, 'Corrigenda and Addenda to Diels' Galenica', I: Codices vaticani, Traditio, 23 (1967), 461-76 (p. 463 no. 8a). First printed at Padua by Nicolaus Petri c. 1476 together with the commentary by Alī ibn Ridwān (d. 1061, 1068 or 1089), generally known as Commentum Haly: for references to the edition see item 1, and R. J. Durling, 'A Chronological Census of Renaissance Editions and Translations of Galen', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 24 (1961), 230-305 (p. 282 no. 8a). See C.G. Kühn, C. Galeni Opera Omnia (Leipzig 1821-1833; repr. Hildesheim, 1964), I, pp. 305-415; Galien, II: Exhortation à l'étude de la médecine. Art médical, transl. and ed. by V. Boudon (Paris, 2000), with French translation. For the text see also O'Boyle 1998.