Liber tractatus Averoys ... [etc.]

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Title: Liber tractatus Averoys ... [etc.]
Alternative Title: Trattato di fisica
Creator: Averroës, 1126-1198
Contributor: Averroës, 1126-1198.
Published / Created: 1450-1499.
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript, on paper, in unidentified hand, of an Italian translation of Averroës' Latin Tractatus or Epitome in physicorum libros (ff. 1r-53v)--a text originally written in Arabic. Also includes a treatise on human diseases in 46 chapters (ff. 54r-65r), entitled: In questo libro trataremo de tutte linfermita che posseno avenire nel corpo delomo dentro ede fuora dal capo ai piedii. Concludes with a list of remedies (ff. 65r-68r), written in a different hand; incipit: Per male de pieda cossa provata
Description: In Italian.
Title from closing rubric.
Script: humanist minuscule.
Decoration: 2-line red initials. Rubrication.
Layout: 2 columns of 30 to 40 lines.
Binding: modern brown leather half-binding over brown and green marbled paper (over pasteboard). Spine title in gold-tooling: Trattato di medicina in volgare.
Provenance: Unidentified call number on note (inside back cover): Saint Benoit d'Aniane, 21125. Purchased by Dr. Harvey Cushing from Jacques Rosenthal in 1931. Bookplate of Harvey Cushing on inside front cover. His bequest to Yale Medical School Library.
Extent: 1 item (i + 67 leaves) : 290 mm x 205 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Early works to 1800
Armorial bookplates
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Topic): Medicine, Arab
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine
Manuscripts
Subjects: Medicine, Arab
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 > Bookplate

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