Sumam Corporis Summary of the Body

firstly of infancy and childhood. Concerning adolescence. Concerning the prime of life. Concerning old age. Concerning decrepit age. Concerning death, and if one falls suddenly, what he should do. But thus begins the verse which contains the material of the twenty books according to Avicenna?.

To all those who are first diseased, there are causes, namely

whence, that which is in a single voice I shall teach. Hence God said to man, "Form every creature of the four-footed species freely," because they were held back. Hence you may see the birds, in the form which the heavens give. The wide sea, which makes wonders, from which he himself created plants and the fish of the sea, from which those things are located. Hence are the various things, and the flying element, and the creeping things, in the hidden woods, which they use in the field. Hence also follows the liquid, smelling of scents. The laws of herbs are long the safest. Truly the rivers and the fountains, how the water is distinct, and the hematite a blood-red mineral, what is of different color, which the earth dictates. Here alchemy notes the seventh metal. Look hence to the things which are called vsta burnt/calcined, which are placated, which if they are put together?. What the falling star gathers, what the wind, the dew. Here is taken into the plasma creation/form, prepared by the stars. The eclipse of the sun and moon, which retreated.

The book on the Anatomy of the human body begins, firstly, anatomy is spoken of generally

From ana, which is to resolve,

and thomos, which is that which is parts, as if the resolution of parts.

Chapter One

A large decorative initial 'I' spanning seven lines of text. The letter is green and blue on a reddish-pink background, framed in gold/yellow, depicting a simple foliate or abstract pattern inside the body of the letter.

In the bodies of the creatures, in the principal ones, God said, etc. And he placed according to the creation, just as the whole world is one, in Greek, homo micoscosmus, which is called the lesser world. Here God is able to recreate the natures. On the sixth day he fashioned man; furthermore, God said: man from infancy first walks upon his hands, then in the age of adolescence walks upright on his feet, thereafter in decrepit age, one leans toward the earth, because he was assumed from the earth, and to the earth he goes.

Chapter Two: Concerning the Head

The head, just as it is said by the masters, was created from a hard bone. Concerning which, the future growth/form is spoken of, that there is one forest or "mass" of crude matters. It was formed as the head, in which that which was future was not, and this, in the state of its figure, is to be prepared. Today such things harden and thicken, the shell of the head. In infants, however, it is spoken of as when it was completed, just as we spoke of in the anatomy. The shell of the head contains three cells: one anterior, one in the middle, and one posterior, for the soul. The anterior forms the fantastic virtue, as if by imagination. In the second, which is in the middle, is the intellectual virtue.