Harley MS 3140, ff 29r-32v

Hippocrates, Prognosticon. The Latin translation of the work by Hippocrates of Kos (460-375 BC) relating to acute illnesses and their treatments. The author of the present translation, made in the late 11th century from Arabic sources and not from the original text in Greek, is identifiable with Constantinus Africanus (c. 1020-1098/9); for the rejection of the identification of the translator with Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114-1187) see O'Boyle 1989, pp. 90-91 n. 31. Title: 'Incipit liber pronosticorum ypocratis in acutis egritudinibus', incipit: 'Omnis qui medicine artis studio seu gloria seu dilectabilem amicorum / consequi copiam desiderat', explicit: 'sunt exposite ordine preceptorum. manifeste'. With glosses.

Two other copies of the text (one imperfect) are included in Harley MS 6295 (ff. 89r-98r, 98r-101r). For the text see see also 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. 1001l and 1002b; its electronic edition (Ann Arbor, MI, 2000), nos. 1001L and 1002B. First printed at Padua by Nicolaus Petri c.1476: for references to the edition see item 1 above. For modern editions of the original Greek text see Hippocrates, ed. by W. H. S. Jones, Loeb Classical Library, 148 (Cambridge, Mass., 1923), II, pp. 1-55, with English translation; B. Alexanderson, Die hippokratische Schrift Prognostikon. Überlieferung und Text, Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia, 17 (Göteborg, 1963), pp. 193-231.