Articella

The initial text appears to be a list of qualities: ctonia earthly: domination: cunning: and solicitude.

¶ On animal virtue.

The zodiaca virtus zodiacal virtue/governing force comprises three things. The first is animal virtue, which orders, composes, and discerns. The second is that which moves by voluntary motion. The third is that which is called sensory. From the ordering and discerning reason and positive virtue, these proceed: fantasia imagination in the forehead, thought or reason in the brain, and memory in the occiput. The virtue that is voluntarily mobile moves the limbs by which other members are moved, which are moved by voluntary motion. The sensory virtue, therefore, consists of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell.

¶ On operations.

Operations are of two kinds. There are operations where each one accomplishes its own task individually. Such is the appetite for food through heat and dryness. Digestion is through heat and moisture. Retention is through cold and dryness. Expulsion is through that which is cold and moist. There are also composite operations that are made up of two: such as desire and movement. For desire is composed of a double virtue, one of which is that which appetizes, and the other which senses. For the stomach senses its own dwelling. Movement, however, is composed of a double virtue or more: one which expels, another which attracts or senses, and another which appetizes.

¶ On spirits.

Spirits, therefore, are three. The first is the natural spirit, which takes its beginning from the liver. The second is the vital spirit from the heart. The third is the animal spirit from the brain. The first of these is diffused from the liver through the veins, which do not have a pulse, into the whole body. The second is directed from the heart through the arteries into the whole body. The third, however, is directed into the whole body from the brain through the nerves, which are recognized in the seventh part of natural things, that is, in the spirit.

¶ On the number of ages.

There are four ages: namely, adolescence, youth, old age, and decrepitude.
¶ Adolescence is of a complexion that is clearly hot and moist, in which the body grows and increases until it reaches the thirtieth or thirty-fifth year. ¶ Youth follows this, which is hot and dry, preserving perfection without a diminution of strength, which ends at the forty-fifth or sixtieth year. ¶ Old age succeeds this, cold and dry, in which the body truly begins to diminish and decrease, yet the strength does not fail, persisting until the fifty-fifth or sixtieth year. ¶ Decrepitude succeeds this with a collection of phlegm, a cold and moist humor, in which the strength begins to fail, which measures its years to the end of life.

¶ On the color of the skin and its division.

The color of the skin occurs in two ways. Either internal factors provide it, or external factors bring it about.
¶ From internal factors, it happens in two ways: either from abundance or from the equality of the humors. From equality comes that which is composed of whiteness and redness. From inequality, however, proceed black, yellow, red, bluish, and white color. For red, black, and yellow color signify a humor dominating the body. Yellow alone signifies cor: likely a misprint for 'colera'