Reference edition:

Vázquez Buján, M. E., «Vindiciano y el tratado De natura generis humani», Dynamis, 2, 1982, pp. 48-56.

The De natura generis humani is transmitted by just a single manuscript (Paris, BnF, lat. 7027, ff. 2v-13v), and its attribution to Vindicianus remains uncertain.  The initial section, which probably dealt with gynecology, is defective owing to the loss of a few pages between those numbered 2 and 3.  The remainder offers a description of the body’s internal organs and their functions, and includes chapters dedicated to blood and phlegm.  The title proposed for the treatise comes from the explicit with which it ends on f. 13v.  Together with the Epitome uberior altera, the De natura generis humani was used to draft one of the pulmo glosses in the Liber Glossarum, a vast linguistic encyclopedia of Carolingian origin. [M. E. Vázquez Buján; tr. C. L. Caterine].