About This Item
Title
Rubricated text
Subject
Astrology
Book Illustrations
Description
Incipit page from De medicorum astrologia, a treatise attributed to Hippocrates.
Rubrication: Initials, paragraph mark and capital strokes, and underlinings supplied in red.
Printed by Matthaeus Cerdonis.
Creator
Hippocrates
Source
Original image in: Hippocrates. De medicorum astrologia. Latin (Padua : Matthaeus Cerdonis, 1483), leaf 2. 1f 259 1483 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
1483
Contributor
Cerdonis, Matthaeus, active 1482-1487
Language
lat
Type
StillImage
Identifier
1f_259_1483.2
Original Format
1 print : rubricated
Physical Dimensions
20 x 14 cm
Citation
Hippocrates, “Rubricated text,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed October 31, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2202.
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