Articella

The Articella ('little art') or Ars medicinae ('art of medicine') is a Latin collection of medical treatises bound together in one volume that was used mainly as a textbook and reference manual between the 13th and the 16th centuries.

The collection is usually supposed to have grown around Hunayn's Isagoge, an abridged introduction to Galen's classical Greek treatise Ars medica (Techne iatrike) translated from Arabic into Latin by Constantine the African in the 11th century.

In the late 12th century, Galen's Ars was added to the Articella as a sixth text under the title Tegni.

[1] In the mid-13th century, the emergence of formal medical education in several European universities fueled a demand for comprehensive textbooks.

Instructors from the influential Salernitan medical school in southern Italy popularized the practice of binding other treatises together with their manuscript copies of the Isagoge.