Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

COLLECTION ONE. 9

Therefore, let it be permitted at present to repeat certain things concerning his birth and his life well-led, before we proceed to the description of our book itself.

For MAGNUS HUNDT, otherwise called Dog original: "Canis", is said to have been born at Magdeburg, from where, according to the custom of that time, he was accustomed to call himself a Parthenopolitan, in the year 1449, born from a noble family. After he had passed from his youth for the sake of studies, he went to Leipzig, a seat of the muses then, as it is today, and there in the year 1484 of that century he was received among the Bachelors of Philosophy, and in the year 1487 among the Masters of Philosophy, over whom he also presided as Dean in the same year. In the year 1499, however, he assumed the highest magistracy of the Academy, and already holding the fasces, he obtained from the gracious order of physicians the first honors in the art, or those of Bachelor, and at the same time also a place in the College of senior princes. Then also created a Doctor of Medicine, he publicly taught the art, having previously been a Professor of Physics among the Philosophers. Finally, however, crossing to the camp of the Theologians, in the fourth year of the following century he was invested with the honors of Licentiate, and in the following fifth year with those of Doctor of Theology. From which it also happened that in the year 1512 he was received into the order of the Canons of Meissen.