Harley MS 5425, ff 2r-53v

Incipit (f. 2r): 'Vita brevis, ars longa, tempus acutum, experi/mentum timorosum, iudicium vero dificile', explicit: (f. 53r): 'Premissit aliquibus ... in qua / tolunt incensa'; commentary incipit (f. 2r): 'Plurimi interpretes huius libri in hoc inanime / concordati', explicit (f. 53v): 'in qua / tolunt incensa cuncti // Explicens amphorismos Y[pocratis] hec in fine scripsi ... falsa et non esse Ypocratica, confirmare / poterit'. A short note on the upper edge 'aiudico vobis'. The beginning of most particulae or books is marked by a marginal note added by a contemporary reader (ff. 9v, 24r, 33v, 41r, 48r). With glosses.

A copy of the original text and commentary in Greek is Harley MS 5611. For Galen's commentary 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. 575i, and its electronic version on CD-ROM (Ann Arbor, MI, 2000), no. 575I. First printed at Padua by Nicolaus Petri circa 1476: see H 1868; W. Osler, Incunabula medica. A Study of the Earliest Printed Medical Books 1467-1480 (Oxford, 1923), p. 113, no. 181; A. C. Klebs, Incunabula scientifica et medica (Bruges: 1938, repr. Hildesheim, 1963), p. 62, no. 116.i; GW 2678; ISTC ia01142500, 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. 294 no. 149a). For Hippocrates's original Greek text with English translation, see Hippocrates, ed. by W. H. S. Jones, Loeb Classical Library, 150 (Cambridge, Mass., 1931), vol. IV, pp. 97-221; for Galen's commentary, see C. G. Kühn, C. Galeni Opera Omnia (Leipzig 1821-1833; repr. Hildesheim, 1964), xviib, pp. 345-887, and xviiia, pp. 1-195.