Liber ad Almansorem ... etc

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Description

Title
Liber ad Almansorem ... etc
Alternative Title
Liber Almansoris ... etc
Creator
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Contributor
Cobbs, Marnie, active 1998-, binder.
Faraj ben Salim, active 13th century translator.
Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187 translator.
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Published / Created
between 1300? and 1399?
Publication Place
Italy
Abstract

Illuminated manuscript, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of Latin translations of Arabic medical texts. Includes texts by Abu Bakr Rhazes: Liber ad Almansorem (ff. 1r-97v); Liber divisionis (ff. 99r-131r); Antidotarium (ff. 131r-141r); Liber introductorius parvus in medicinam (ff. 143v-144v); Liber juncturarum (ff. 145r-151v); Liber puerorum (ff. 151v-154r). The first two texts are translated into Latin by Gerardus Cremonensis. Also contains text by Alguazir Abuale Zor: De curatione lapidis (ff. 141v-142v); and by Galen: Liber VI de medicinis experimentatis (ff. 154v-163r). Galen's text was translated from Greek to Arabic by a certain Joannicius and from Arabic into Latin by Farachius (Faraj ben Salim). Includes a table (ff. 163r-166r). Concludes with the Liber de lapide, ascribed to Abu Bakr Rhazes (ff. 166v-167r).

Description
In Latin.
Title assigned by cataloger.
Script: southern gothic textualis.
Decoration: historiated initials depicting half-length figures with pointed caps or white turbans, perhaps showing Rhazes? (ff. 1-144) Includes red and blue lettering, multi colored initials, and several small portraits.
Layout: 2 columns of 50 lines.
Binding: modern (1992) half calf over oak binding. Previous binding descibed in binder's description accompanying item: 18th-century brown tooled calf.
Provenance
Accompanied by letter communication between Wilfrid A. Voynich and Dr. Cushing. Purchased by Harvey Cushing from Wilfrid A. Voynich in 1929. Accompanied by letters from binder, Marnie Cobbs, with detailed description of previous and current binding.
Extent
1 item (168 leaves) : 310 x 230 mm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Call Number
Manuscript 2 Vault

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Binders
Material
parchment, ill. ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Topic)
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine, Arab
Medicine
Manuscripts
Subjects
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine, Arab
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
4437759
Object ID (OID)
16960282

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