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 from Arabic into Hebrew by Jacobus Hebraeus; into Latin by Paravicius., Includes Averroes: Colliget., Yale Med copy from Ulrich Ellenbog, who signed, annotated, and decorated the text with some red and blue letters., and Yale Med copy has contemporary German binding, K109 Salve-Meister, Memmingen. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
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
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing books 1 (1r-97v), 2 (98r-195r), 4 (196r-303v), and 5 (306r-) of Avicenna's Liber Canonis or Canon Medicinae. Book 3 wanting. Collection of short medical texts follows: "Distinctio mensuraru[m] [et] ponderu[m] ex breuiario alfebyr" (342v-343r), "Distinctio ponderu[m] [et] m[en]suratu[m] ex breuiario filii sarapionis" (343r), "Pondera medicinalia signa conati sum[us]" (343r-343v), and the Secreta Ypocratis (343v-344v): "Peruenit ad nos [quia] cu[m] ypocras morti ap[pro]pinquaret". Also includes incomplete alphabetical index of medicial herbs (a-c; leaves iii verso-iv recto) and index of Arabic names: Incipiu[n]t expo[s]itiones nominu[m] arabico[rum] Auice[n]ne (leaves 345r-348v; Alfirdafu-Zicibil).
Alternative Title:
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Latin, Liber canonis, and Liber canonis medicinae
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: several large puzzle initials in red and blue; alternating red and blue two-line initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of 53 lines., and Binding: modern light-brown calf over pasteboards. Spine title in gold-tooling: Avicenna / Canon Medicinae / MS Saec. XIV.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Title-page lacking. Title taken from Hunter. and This translation is attributed by some authorities to Gerardus Sablonetus rather than to Gerardus Cremonensis the elder.
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Published / Created:
10 April 1490.
Call Number:
Incunabula +R-183 (Goff)
Image Count:
190
Description:
Signatures: a8-i8, k6-m6., "Receptae super nonum ad Almansorem", by Petrus de Tussignano: leaves 74v-89., and Illuminated border of flowers and ornaments on leaf a2, two initials painted in several colors, and letters of red and blue.
