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ΠΕΡΙ ΔΙΔΑΞΕΩΝ.
1. Incipit liber, qui dicitur peri didaxeon.
Her [C.; Hs. er mit Raum davor.] onginþ seo boc peri didaxeon, þaet ys seo swytelunȝ, hu fela ȝera waes behuded se laececraeft. And be his ȝewitnesse [Hs. ȝewisnesse.] þa ȝelaeredusþan [Hs. ȝelaeredus.] laece ȝewislice smeadon. Þaet was [C.; Hs. wat.] se [ 5] aerusta Apollo and his suna Esculapfius and Asclepius; and Asclepius was Ypocrates yem. Þeos IIIIor ȝemetum aerest þa ȝetymbrunga þare laececrafte after Noes flode ymba wintra a þusund [Vor þusund steht sun unterpunktiert; am Rande: circa mille annos.] and fif hund wintra on Artaxis daeȝe, se was Persa cinge [Hs. cingi.] ; hy aluste þa leoht þaera laececraefte. Giwislica [ 10] se Apollon aerest he ȝemetta [Hs. metta doppelt, das erste korrigiert und unterpunktiert.] meþodicam, þaet syndon sa ysene, þa mann mid cnifun haele menn; and Escolafius [C.; E fehlt in der Hs.] empiricam [C.; Hs. empitricā.] , þaet is ilaecnunga of laececrafta; and Asclepius loicam, þaet ys seo gehealdenysse þaere ae and þaes lifaes; and Ypocras theoricam, þaet ys foresceawunȝa þara seocnesse. [ 15] Þannum Plato and Aristotiles, þa ȝelaeredusþan aþwytyna, þas aefterfyliȝdun [Am Rande: secuti sunt.] þan [Hs. þas.] forecwedenan laecum, and hi ȝesaed∣dun þaet feower waetun syndon on þan manniscen lichama; forþam byđ wylyd ealswa middanȝeardes boȝa, þat ys þa waete on þan heafode and þaet blod on þara breosta and se ruwa [ 20] ȝealla on þan innoþe and se swerta ȝealle innan đare blaedran. And hyra anra ȝehwylce [Statt anra ȝehwylce Hs. anȝehylce; C. anȝehwylce.] rixaþ đra monþas: Þaet ys fram XVIII [Darüber: octodecimo.] kl'. jan̄. usque in VIII [Darüber: octo.] kl'. ap'l'. þaet on đan heafde se waete byđ wexende; and fram XVIII [Darüber: octodecimo.] kl'. ap'l'. usque in VIII kl'. julij, þaet đaet blod biþ wexinde on þan breosten; [ 25] ab XVIII kl'. julij usque in octaua kl'. octobris, þaet sa ruwa ȝealle byđ wexenda on þan innoþe, forþan synd þa