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<p>Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 10a 233. France, First half 13th century. This manuscript is a thirteenth-century copy of Gherardo da Cremona's twelfth-century translation of a brief Galenic treatise on prognosis and change in the course of a disease.  The text is known by the titles De crisibus, De crisis, and Peri criseos.  The manuscript is divided into three parts and is mostly undecorated, with a puzzle initial at the beginning of the first book and simpler initials at the beginning of the second and third books.  A later reader added running headings of the book division at the top of each folio.
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<br>Subjects: Treatise; 13th century; Puzzle initial</div>
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Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia</div>
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