The manuscript was lent, but on excellent security, and it is nice to know that it was returned.
(25) Franklin: Recherches sur la Bibliotheque de la Faculte de Medecine de Paris, 1864.
It is said that one of the special advantages that Montpellier had over Paris was its possession of so many important MSS., particularly those of the Arabian writers.

Many "Compendia" were written containing extracts from various writers, and no doubt these were extensively copied and lent or sold to students.

At Bologna and Padua, there were regulations as to the price of these MSS.

The university controlled the production of them, and stationers were liable to fines for inaccurate copies.

The trade must have been extensive in those early days, as Rashdall mentions that in 1323 there were twenty-eight sworn booksellers in Paris, besides keepers of bookstalls in the open air.
MEDIAEVAL PRACTICE THE Greek doctrine of the four humors colored all the conceptions of disease; upon their harmony alone it was thought that health depended.
The four temperaments, sanguine, phlegmatic, bilious and melancholic, corresponded with the prevalence of these humors.