Includes bibliographical footnotes. and "I have sought ... to indicate the part played by the scholars and physicians of Islám, and especially of Persia."--Pref.
Dealers' descriptions pasted onto back cover (1959) say Johannes Serapion Senior is Jahiah Ben Serabi, 802-849., Leaf a1 (blank) preceded by seven others filled with manuscript notes in a contemporary hand., and Signatures: a8, b8, c6, d8-h8, hh8, i8, k6, l8, m6, n8, o6, p6, q8-t8.
Publisher:
Reynaldus de Novimagio
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, and Materia medica
Petrus Rochabonella, ed.; Prosdocimus Mutius, corr., "Libellus Avicene de viribus cordis translatus ab Arnaldo de villa nova": 6 leaves next to end., and Med: Later German binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
Publisher:
Dionysius Bertochus
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Materia medica, and Heart
Manuscript fragment on parchment of book two of Avicenna's Canon medicinae as translated from Arabic into Latin by Gerard of Cremona; the section contained in the fragment details a variety of herbs and their medicinal qualities
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a heavily abbreviated, Gothic hand., Decoration: each medicinal entry begins with a 3-line initial, alternating red and blue with penwork in the contrasting color. Headings at the top of each page in red and blue. Each column contains decorative borderwork consisting of elongated strokes alternating in red and blue with red penwork., Layout: in two columns of 68 lines each., and Damage: the fragment has been removed from a binding, where it possibly served as a wrapper. Glue and binding material are still attached to one side of the leaf; the other side is discolored with offsetting from the later book. A piece from the spine remains attached and reads "Bbb" [?].
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Avicenna, 980-1037 and Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medieval, and Medicine, Arab
Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis (or rather Gerardus Sablonetanus), with commentary by Jacobus de Partibus and additions by Johannes Lascaris; edited by Jacques Ponceau., Yale Med has volumes I and III, part 1, as described in Goff 1438., and Yale Med has a contemporary German binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
Includes color illustrations on leaf 6 (Liber III), red and blue lettering throughout. and Yale Med copy includes Libri III and V, as described in Goff 1419.
Part [2] has special title page: Officina apothecariorum, seu seplasiariorum, pharmacopolarum, ac juniorum medicorum ..., "Quaestio de vini exhibitione in febribus ab Jacobo Sylvio Ambianate aedita. An in febribus vinum aegrotis tuto dari queat": leaves lv-liiir, 2nd group of paging., Allut xxxviii., and MED,HSL Classics: Leaves 55 and [56] of v. 2 are missing and supplied by photostat.
