Illuminated manuscript herbal, on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of medical texts, tables, and taxonomies about plants, animals, and herbs by Hippocrates, Dycolapius Plato, Apuleius, Sextus Placitus, Dioscorides, and Apollinis. Includes copious hand-colored drawings of plants and animals, and a number of full-page author portraits
Alternative Title:
In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicine scilicet Ypocratis, Platonis, et Diascoridis, In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicie s. Ypoctis, Platonis, et Diascoridis, and De herbis masculinis et feminis [and other botanical and zoological works, including the Herbarium of Apuleius]
Description:
In Latin., Title from rubricated heading on f. 3r., Script: southern gothic textualis., Layout: 1 column of around 38 lines., Decoration: copious illustriations of plants and animals. Full-page portraits of the authors on ff. 3v, 50v, and 63r. Rubrication., Binding: 18th/19th-century vellum binding over pastedboard. Spine title: Plantan et animal., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical, Herbals, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Zoology, Medieval
Illuminated manuscript herbal, on parchment, in several unidentified hand, containing a herbal in Italian (ff. 1r-49v), incipit: L'erba dicta astrologia o vere aristolatia... Followed by a collection of medical recipes in Italian (ff. 50r-152v), incipit: ungue[n]to da fare. Includes 16 botanical drawings in colored ink
Alternative Title:
Herbal : in Italian ; followed by Medical recipes (on leaves 51-152)
Description:
In Italian., Title devised by cataloger., Script: documentary hands., Layout: single column of varying length., Decoration: 16 botanical drawings: herba alebro biancho (f. 28r), herba pinpinella maiore (f. 28v), herba ceredonia (f. 29r), herba berthonica (f. 29v), herba coriola (f. 30r), herba lunaria minore (f. 30v), herba astologia rotonda (f. 31r), herba oculorum Christi (f. 31v), herba greiima (f. 32r), herba poliponice (f. 32v), herba trefolgi (f. 33r), herba rebarrum (f. 33v), herba siillo di santa maria (f. 34r), herba mandragola femena (f. 34v), herba madragola mascolo (f. 35r), herba dicta tirmitella (f. 35v), unidentified herb (f. 39v). Herbal rubricated., Binding: bound in modern vellum over paper boards., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Also available on microfilm.
Manuscript., Persian., and Anonymous treatise on medicine in Persian, assigned to a certain ʻAyn al-Ḥayat Iskandarī who may or may not have been a real person. Another copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris (Catalogue des manuscrits persans, par E. Blochet, no. 874). Undated ca. 17th cent. in fair taʻlīq writing. Seems to be incomplete at the end. 175 leaves; 20x15 cm.; the written surface measures 14x7.5 cm; 15 line to the page; commentaries on the margins of most pages.
Publisher:
s.n. and د.ن.،
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Persian, Medicine, and Therapeutics
Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī, -901 ثابت بن قرة الحراني، -901
Published / Created:
15--?]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 1
Image Count:
542
Alternative Title:
Dhakhīrah 880-02 and ذخيرة 240-02/(3/r
Description:
No title page. Title from fol. 1b, Manuscript., Arabic., Neat medium size naskh, 15 x 25.5 cm. Written surface: 8 x 17.5 cm. Some interlinear and marginal corrections. Catchwords on bottom of page. Off-white paper is glazed. Leather binding flap is blind stamped. Contains 31 chapters, starting with hygiene and ending with sexual intercourse., Gift of Harvey Cushing., and Bound with: Sharḥ Urjūzat Ibn Sīnā fī al-ṭibb / li-Abī al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd.
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. 1597 880-02 and قانون في الطب. 1597 240-02/(3/r
Description:
"Istaktabahu al-faqīr ilá mawlāhu ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Quṭbī [?] al-Ḥanafī ghafar [...] sanat 1006"--T.p., "Tamma al-juzʼ al-thānī min Kitāb al-Qānūn. Wa-bi-tamāmihi tammat al-kutub al-khamsah al-mushtamilah ʻalá al-Qānūn wa-dhalika fī al-ʻishr al-awsaṭ min Ṣafar min sanat sanat ithnayn wa-tisʻīn wa-sitimiʼah [25 January 1293] ... Wa-kāna al-farāgh min kitābat hādhihi al-naskhah al-mubārakah fī awāʼil shahr Rabīʻ al-Awwal sanat sitt baʻda al-alf [13 October 1597] ..."--Colophon., Two leaves of notes in Arabic and Persian at end., Copied in medium sized naskhi script, 21.5 x 31 cm. Writing surface 14.7 x 22.5 cm. Text is gilt ruled 39 lines to page. Catchwords and headings in red, blue and gold. The leather binding is gilt stamped., and Gift of Harvey Cushing, July 30 1929. Purchased from Dr. Saʻīd Kurdustānī.
Translated by Nicole Prevost., Signatures: a8-i8, k8-p8, q6, r6., Med: Some lettering in red and blue., and Med: Later French binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of letters, attributed to Hippocrates (ff. 1r-50v). Also includes a series of epitaphs (ff. 51r-53v); incipit: Caesari sacrum Ennius Montanus fecit auxit. Concludes with a collection of pseudo-classical letters of unknown Renaissance authorship (ff. 54r-72v): correspondence between Marius Appius and Latianus (2 letters, 54r-55r), letters by and to Curtius Rufus (22 letters, ff. 56r-73v), and a letter by Genutius to the Roman senate (1 letter, ff. 73r-74r). Leaves 50, 73-77 are blank
Alternative Title:
[Epistolae : translated into Latin by Alamanno Rinuccini].
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: historiated gold initial showing king seated on a throne (Ataxerxes?), with sword and orb in hand, and full border decoration including animals, puti, and human figures (f. 1r); five-line gold initial on blue frame (f. 25r); 2-line gold initials on purple and blue frames; gold capital letters. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 15 lines., Binding: old burgundy velvet over parchment., and Foliation added in modern pencil.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Published / Created:
between 1300? and 1399?
Call Number:
Manuscript 2 Vault
Image Count:
348
Resource Type:
text
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).
Alternative Title:
Liber Almansoris ... etc
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., and Binding: modern (1992) half calf over oak binding. Previous binding descibed in binder's description accompanying item: 18th-century brown tooled calf.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
