Specimen of a Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

He deserves the greatest praise, however, for that Anthropologium, for the sake of which I write these things and to the fuller description of which we must now hasten.

Indeed, it consists of 120 sheets in a four-part format.

Immediately after the title indicated above is read:

Epigram of Master Magnus to the Reader.

It helps nothing to know the customs of many foreigners,
When like a blind woman she does not see her own.
It is no small shame to inquire craftily into foreign things,
While a man does not know himself nor studies to know his own.
He who knows his own nature governs all things well,
Ignorant of himself, the fool desires to know other things.
Therefore, reader, study first to know yourself,
Then seek with vigilant care to discern all things.
Learn the natures of humans, you who study to rule,
Learn to live always as a healthy human.
This book which you will read teaches these things,
When it provides golden dogmas by its law.