- First blank dam./ portions torn off; first ±30 lvs. sl. wormholed in outer blank margin; 1 leaf w. a few holes/ weak spots; some scattered old annots. and occas. sl. waterst. in blank margin(s). Frontcover vellum w. cut/ tear and dam. in lower right corner; foot of spine dam.; vellum soiled/ stained/ wrinkled; paper libr. ticket on spine.

= Adams A 1983; Durling 310; Palau p.195; Sarton II, p.897. "As a practising physician, Arnald was evidently committed to experience rather than to theory or to authority. Yet Arnald was also the principal figure in Montpellier's fusion of the Western empirical tradition with the systematic medical philosophy of the Greeks and Arabs. (...) it was his advice that shaped the papal bull of 8 September 1309, which regularized medical education at Montpellier, defining a set of fifteen Greek and Arab texts as the basis for future study at the school." (DSB I, p.290). "In den mit einiger Sicherheit dem spanischen A. beizulegende Schriften zeigt sich derselbe als ein für seine Zeit bedeutender Chemiker und als ein edler, frommer, von der Würde seines Berufs erfüllter Arzt, als entschiedener Gegner der Scholastik, von hoher Selbstständigkeit, reicher Erfahrung und wissenschaftlichem Ernste, als begeisterter Anhänger der Lehren des Hippokrates." (Hirsch I, p.196).

From the library of Theobald Fettich, w. his owner's entry ("Sum Theobaldi Fettich Anno 1588") on title-p. Fettich practised medicine in Worms around 1517 and was physician to the Elector Palatine Ludwig V (1478-1544) and medical adviser to Wolfgang von Affenstein, Palatinate councillor and caretaker of the library at Ladenburg Castle near Heidelberg. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.