The Articella

Two facing pages of an iluminated manuscript.

Image of two facing pages of the illuminated manuscript of “Isagoge”, fols. 42b and 43a. On the top of the left hand page is an illuminated letter “D” – initial of “De urinarum differencia negocium” (The matter of the differences of urines). Inside the letter is a picture of a master on bench pointing at a raised flask while lecturing on the “Book on urines” of Theophilus. The right hand page is only shown in part. On its very bottom is an illuminated letter “U” – initial of “Urina ergo est colamentum sanguinis” (Urine is the filtrate of the blood). Inside the letter is a picture of a master holding up a flask while explaining the diagnostic significance of urine to a student or a patient.

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