Harley MS 5425, ff 53v-56v

The Latin translation of a short treatise on evil complexion as one of the causes of pain attributed to the Greek physician and philosopher Galen (c. 130-200). The treatise is also known as De inaequali intemperie; its Latin version derives from Arabic sources and is seemingly anonymous, but has occasionally been ascribed to Gerard of Cremona (Gerardus Cremonensis) (c. 1114-1187), an attribution accepted in García-Ballester, 'The New Galen: A Challenge to Latin Galenism in Thirteenth-Century Montpellier', in Galen and Galenism (Aldershot-Burlington, Vermont, 2002), V, p. 70 n. 93. Incipit: 'Malitia complexionis diverse quandoque in toto animalis / corpore existit', explicit: 'post ipsum / librum de ingenio sanitatis'. With glosses.

Other copies of the text are Additional MS 22669 (ff. 45v-47v) and Harley MS 3748 (ff. 208v-210v). For the Latin 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. 846f, and its electronic version on CD-ROM (Ann Arbor, MI, 2000), no. 846F; R. J. Durling, 'Corrigenda and Addenda to Diels' Galenica', I, Traditio, 23 (1967), 461-76 (p. 466), and II, Traditio, 37 (1981), 373-81 (pp. 375-76). First printed at Venice on 27 Aug. 1490 by Philippus Pincius as one of Galen's works edited by Diomedes Bonardus: see H *7427; Arnold C. Klebs, Incunabula scientifica et medica (Bruges: 1938; repr. Hildesheim: 1963), p. 147, no. 432.i; 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. 55); GW 10481; 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), G37; ISTC ig00037000. For the original Greek text, see K. G. Kühn, Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia,(Leipzig, 1821; repr. Hildesheim 1964) VII, pp. 733-52.