On the Usefulness of the Parts, Vol. II

(fol. 222b) a fragment of Longinus On the Sublime has been inserted; cf. Longinus ed. Jahn-Vahlen p. IX. 8. Galen, On the Use of Parts, books I, II, III (incomplete) fol. 225–292b. It is deficient from the words "but also I think those who happen to be observing" (p. 154, 22). Folios 293–296 are blank. These books of Galen are followed from fol. 297a–350 by various thirteen writings, most of them anonymous, which it is irrelevant to list here. Although this codex has been corrupted in very many places by the negligence of the scribe, it very often agrees with the Urbinas in such a way that it seems to have originated from the same family as that one. However, it cannot be derived from the Urbinas itself, since in many places it alone exhibits the true writing, for example: p. 2, 6 τὰ κέρατα the horns, 7, 13 ἦν was, 16, 1 τῶν ἑξῆς λεγομένων of the things mentioned next, 20 καλά beautiful/good, 39, 2 ἀποστήσεσθαι to withdraw, 41, 3 ἐκινδύνευσεν it was in danger, 13 αὐτοῦ of him/itself, 43, 6 δίχα σχισθείς split in two, 53, 24 σφοδρόταται δ’ αἵπερ but those which are most violent, 55, 10 περὶ τὰς about the, 57, 14 ἐπίθημά τι some covering, 70, 21 διαπεραίνεσθαι to be accomplished, 83, 12 ἑνὸς of one, 91, 3 κοίλης of the hollow, 142, 7 οὐ γεν not begotten/not of the kind.

The Vatican codex 285, a 15th-century paper manuscript, seems to be a twin of this codex; it too, after other writings of Galen, contains these:

9. Stephanus, On the Differentiation of Fevers, fol. 202b,
10. Galen, On Diagnosis from Dreams,
11. Dionysius or Longinus, On the Sublime, fol. 204–206,
12. Galen, On the Use of Parts, books I, II, III ch. 9,
13. John Argyropoulos, Solutions to Doubts. I inspected it in passing, I did not collate it.

6. The third Parisinus 2148 (D), a 15th-century paper codex. It contains from fol. 123 Galen's work, almost complete, except for a small part of the seventh book, which is from the words "of the belly" p. 394, 5 up to "of the heart" p. 422, 10, which we said above is also missing in the Laurentianus. In the upper margin of fol. 123a it is written: "Galen's On the Use of Parts, seventeen books and nothing more, whose chapters are divided separately for each." Then follows the rubric: "Christ, King, give your immortal help to those suffering." Galen, On the Use of the Parts in the Human Body, book I. It testifies? that it once belonged to Nicolaus Leonicenus, a most famous physician of Padua.