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.
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Published / Created:
30 March 1483.
Call Number:
Incunabula +R-182 (Goff)
Image Count:
524
Description:
"Receptae super nonum ad Almansorem", by Petrus de Tussignano: leaves 113-136., Signatures: a8-h8, i6, k6, l6, m8-o8, p6, A8-C8., With this is De anima, de intellectu / Albertus Magnus: Venice: Reynaldus de Novimagio, 1481., and Med: Contemporary German binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
Translation of: Kāmil al-ṣināʻah., Place of publication and name of publisher from colophon, which also gives the date as: Anno domini millesimo quingentesimo xxiij. die vero xviij. mensis Martij., and Title printed in red and black within ornamental woodcut border; woodcut initials.
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
Alternative Title:
Trattato di fisica
Description:
In Italian., Title from closing rubric., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: 2-line red initials. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of 30 to 40 lines., and Binding: modern brown leather half-binding over brown and green marbled paper (over pasteboard). Spine title in gold-tooling: Trattato di medicina in volgare.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
