Galenou Peri philosophon historias
Contributors: North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner; Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884, former owner; Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner; Harold B. Lee Library
Published: 1475
Language: grc
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Manuscripts; De historia philosophica
Other titles: Peri philosophon historias; Historia philosophorum
Work titles: De historia philosophica
Notes: Caption title.

Incipit: Ton ex arches philosophesanton physiologein mononproeloumenon ...

Explicit: Ta de hypo ten arkton pepoknosthai, kai dia touto polychronia. Telos.

Signatures:  [1]¹, [2]¹², [3]¹ ([3]1 [3]2-10 blank)

Manuscript on paper (217 x 140 mm), written in brown ink with initials, headings, and some side notes in red. 30-34 lines per page. Of Italian origin?

Latin headnotes in margins in red ink; Greek chapter heads in red ink.

The work was first published in 1497 with the first edition of Aristotle, then published in the first edition of Galen in 1525. This manuscript agrees closely with the latter text.

Watermarks are 1. a bird, 2. a post-horn; similar to Briquet 12145 and 7697 (Naples, 1470, 1480).

Bound in half morocco with brown paste-paper panels.

Phillipps, Thomas, The Phillipps manuscripts, Ms. 23007 (part)

Merrill, Brian Leon, A descriptive catalogue of four of the Phillipps Greek manuscripts housed in the Harold B. Lee Library, 4

H.P. Kraus; purchase; 1979/01/19

First known owner was Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford. Purchased by bookseller Henry George Bohn in the 1830s, who sold it to Thomas Phillipps (ms. 23007).