Harley MS 3140, ff 274v-276v

Aegidius de Corbeil, Pulses. The poetic summary by Giles of Corbeil (d. c. 1220/1224) of Philaretus's treatise on pulses compiled to help university students in the memorisation of diagnostic tools of medical practice. Incipit: 'Ingenii vires modicis conatibus inpar', explicit: 'Iam sterilem cultum Philareti vomeris horret / Expliciunt versus egiii de pulsibus'. For 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), p. 744c; its electronic edition (Ann Arbor, MI, 2000), no. 744C. Edited by Venantius Mutius and printed for the first time at Padua by Cerdonis in 1484 together with a commentary by Gentile Gentili da Foligno (d. 1348): see H *103; Arnold C. Klebs, Incunabula scientifica et medica (Bruges: 1938; repr. Hildesheim: 1963), p. 157, no. 465.1; GW 268; Fredrick R. Goff, Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1964), A92; ISTC ia00092000 (a British Library copy is IA.30008). Reprinted together with Giles's verse on urines at Venice by Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus for Hieronymus de Durantibus in 1494: for references see the previous item.