Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books (1751) - Page 21

Professor of Theology and Doctor of Medicine in Book II of the Sentences, various disputed questions; and another Manuscript Codex of the Institutions, which Magnus Hundt bequeathed by testament to the Academy, concerning which see the very famous SCHWARZ's scholia Philologica philological commentaries on the Preface to the Institutions from a collection of XII manuscripts and printed books. Yet the Anthropology by that same man, for whose sake I write these things and to whose more abundant description we must now hasten, certainly deserves the greatest praise of his name.

Indeed, it consists of 120 leaves in a quarto format.

Immediately after the title indicated above, one reads:

Epigram of Master Magnus to the Reader.

It is no help to know the ways of many foreigners

When a fool sees no fault of his own

There is no small shame in inquiring 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 perceive all things

Learn the natures of men, you who study to rule

Learn, O man, to live forever healthy

This book teaches you, which you will read as you have subscribed

Since it provides golden dogmas through its law