Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Régime du corps
France, perhaps Rouen, ca. 1440-1450
MS M.0165 fol. 113v

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Hippocrates: Scene, giving Book to Messenger -- Hippocrates, wearing cap and ermine-trimmed robe, sits in high-backed chair, with right hand extending book to extended right hand of messenger, with garment slung over his right shoulder; all within initial C decorated with pen flourishing. Initial C in at beginning of Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Caesar.