Manuscript on parchment, composed of 2 parts, both of uneven quality. Part I of the codex written in the 15th century. The final quire, written probably in the 14th century, was bound in with the first 186 ff. in the 16th or 17th century. Contains excerpts of historical tracts, medical recipes, charms, prayers, notes on parliament, philosophy, and dream interpretation, proverbs, poems, notes on horses and hunting, and excerpts from astronomical and religious tracts
Description:
In English and Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-186): Written in Anglicana, by 2 main scribes, with abundant notes and texts added in margins and blank spaces by other hands. On ff. 179r-181r the scribe begins in Anglicana formata but lapses into a more cursive grade. Initials (3- and 2-line), underlining, rubrics and slashes at ends of sentences in red. From ff. 103r-140v, 3- and 2-line initials in blue with red penwork and long flourishes; on ff. 30r-31v (on the exchequer), checkerboards in blue, red and black in upper and lower margins. Water stains on ff. 1-2, only affecting a few words of the text. Part II (ff. 187-193): Written by one scribe in an uneven 14th-century Anglicana. Three-line initial on f. 187r not filled in. Outer column of f. 187 cut off., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Limp, flush boards are made up of fibrous, felted material (paper?) sandwiched between two layers of vellum, which extend across the spine. This case is glued and tacketed to the bookblock with three tackets consisting of at least six threads each. Stitches go through the spine linings around three threads at head and tail. Covered with tawed skin, originally pink, the turn-ins glued over the pastedowns. The cover extends in fore-edge and envelope flaps. Some rodent damage on the upper board and part of the envelope cut away. Discoloration and traces of adhesive on three outer edges of envelope flap.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Charms, English literature, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Guglielmo, da Saliceto, approximately 1210-1276 or 1277
Published / Created:
1473.
Call Number:
Manuscript 54 vault
Image Count:
734
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, on paper, in two unidentified hands, containing Guglielmo da Saliceto's Summa conservationis et curationis (ff. 1r-275r). Followed, in a third hand, by an alphabetical glossary of plants in Latin and German (ff. 275r-278r). Ends with the text of the Chirurgia (ff. 280-364), ending imperfectly. Texts of the Summa conservationes et curationis and of the Chirurgia were likely written separately in Italy, but bound in Germany
Alternative Title:
Summa conservationis & curatione : [and] cyrurgia
Description:
In Latin and German., Title from title page (front flyleaf)., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: double column of 51 lines., Binding: German 16th-century half blind-tooled pigskin binding over oak boards with two fore-edge brass clasps, with catches on the upper board. Lower board repaired with one clasp missing. Parchment binding stay (Germany, 15th-century) between ff. 10 and 11). Binding was rebacked and repaired in the 20th century; pastedown and flyleaf were added (watermark "P" with 4 petals on top, not located in Briquet). Leather spinal label with a gold-tooled title: "Guilielmi/ Placentini De [?]/ Saliceto Summa/ Conservationis/ Et Curationis/ 1473"., Title page has colophon: Wilhelmi Placentini medici de Saliceto summa conservationis et curationis -- item Chirurgia. 1473. Claruit auctor tempore Rudolphi I imp..., End of Summa (f. 275) has colophon: Explicit liber quart et ultimus practice phisicalis excellentissimi magistri guilhelmi piacentini 1473., and Two units foliated separately.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery, Medieval
Untitled medical text in nestaʻlīq script. 463 folios, 26x16 cm., 9 lines per page. Written surface measures 8.5x15 cm. Main text in Arabic, some notes in Persian. The manuscript is difficult to date since the colophon is missing. Old read leather binding with some pieces replaced at some time in the past and colored to match. Author unknown. The introduction states that the treatise consists of four chapters: (1) On the basic principles of classification of medical sciences; (2) On medication and nutrition; (3) On diseases that infect certain body parts; and (4) On diseases that infect other body parts. A printed note, probably clipped from an old catalog, is mounted on the last blank page states: "A very fine and unpublished Persian [sic] manuscript on medicine in red leather binding of 17th century." It is certainly in nice condition, but we cannot vouch for "unpublished" or "17th century.", "Baʻda ḥamd Allāh ʻazza wa-jall ... fa-qad rattabtu hādhā al-kitāb ʻalá arbaʻat funūn ...", Manuscript., Arabic., and Digital version available;
Manuscript written on vellum and paper in black and red ink. and From Carthusian monastery at Cologne; Leander van Ess (no. 171); Sir Thomas Phillipps (manuscript 555); presented to Yale Med in 1958 by David P. Wheatland.
Books four and five of "al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb" (Canon of medicine), a comprehensive work on Arabic medicine, by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, 980-1037) who was born near Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan). Avicenna was the most famous and influential scholar, scientist, and philosopher of the medieval world. He was foremost a physician, but was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, psychologist, philosopher, logician, mathematician, physicist, and poet. His al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb became the authoritative reference on medicine in the Middle Ages, not only in the Islamic world, but, in its Latin translations, in Europe as well. The present manuscript consists of book four (folios 1b-156b) and book five (folios 157a-211a) of a five volume set. Book five is called "al-Aqrābādhīn" (pharmacology, materia medica). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 19th century.
Alternative Title:
Aqrābādhīn., Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Selections, أقراباذين., الكتابان الرابع والخامس من القانون في الطب : مخطوطة / ابن سينا., and قانون في الطب. مختارات
Description:
16.5 x 30.5 cm; written surface: 12.5 x 22.5 cm; 29 lines per page., Binding: In modern dark brown leather binding with flap; spine and flap embossed with central medallions; covers embossed corner decorations., Colophon: "Tamma kitāb al-Aqrābādīn bi-tamāmih min kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb lil-Shaykh al-Raʼīs wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá dhālika ḥamdan lā ghāyah la-hā wa-ṣallá [Allāh ʻalá] al-Nabī al-Hāshimī Abṭaḥī [al-Abṭaḥī] wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi ṣalātan lā mithla la-hā. Ḥarrarahu wa-fī sanat thamāniyat ʻashar.", In good medium naskh script, in black ink on white paper; headings and keywords in red; text within frames in red, blue and gold; many wormholes, mostly on the margins; some corrections and notes on the margins; catchwords., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Fī al-amrāḍ allatī lā takhtaṣṣu bi-ʻuḍw dūna ʻuḍw. al-Kitāb al-rābiʻ min al-Qānūn. Kalām kullī fī al-ḥummīyāt wa-huwa sabʻat funūn ...", On folio 156b: "Fa-hādhā ākhir kitāb [...?] wa-huwa ākhir al-kalām min kitāb [al-kitāb] al-rābiʻ wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh shukran kathīran. Wa-yatlūhu kitāb [al-kitāb] al-khāmis fī al-anqrābādīn. Tammat al-jild al-rābiʻ min al-Qānūn [... ... ... ...] Allāh sākin Kashmar, ghafara Allāh [la-hu] wa-li-wālidayh. 14.", On folio 157a: "al-Kitāb al-khāmis min al-Qānūn lil-Shaykh al-Raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā, raḥimahu Allāh, wa-huwa akhir al-kutub minhu.", On folio 157b: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Rabbi yassir wa-tammim bi-al-khayr. al-Kitāb al-khāmis min kutub al-Qānūn wa-huwa al-Aqrābādīn. Laqad faraghnā min al-kitāb al-arbaʻah ʻan dhikr al-ʻilam al-naẓarī wa-al-ʻamalī al-ḥāfiẓ lil-ṣiḥḥah wa-ḥāna la-nā an nakhtuma kitāb al-Qānūn, al-kitāb al-khāmis, al-muṣannaf fī al-adwiyah al-murakkabah, li-yakūna kamā al-qarābādīn lil-kitāb ...", On folio 1a: "al-Kitāb al-rābiʻ min al-Qānūn lil-Shaykh al-Raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā, raḥimahu Allāh, wa-yalīhi al-kitāb al-khāmis minhu wa-huwa al-Aqrābādhīn.", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: al-ḥammāmāt fa-yuḥammī judrānah., Title supplied by cataloger., Translation of the colophon: "The book of al-Aqrābādīn of al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb [Canon of medicine] of the Grand Master [Avicenna] is completed in its entirety. Praise be to God for this without end. May God pray on the Hashimite and Abṭaḥite Prophet [Muḥammad] and his family and companions, a prayer without equal. Copied in the year eighteen.", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. في الأمراض التي لا تختص بعضو دون عضو. الكتاب الرابع من القانون. كلام كلي في الحميات وهو سبعة فنون ...", الخاتمة: "تم كتاب الأقرابادين بتمامه من كتاب القانون في الطب للشيخ الرئيس والحمد لله على ذلك حمدًا لا غاية لها وصلى [الله على] النبي الهاشمي أبطحي [الأبطحي] وعلى آله وأصحابه صلوةً لا مثل لها. حرره وفي سنة ثمانية عشر.", بداية الورقة الثانية: الحمامات فيحمي جدرانه., على ظهر الورقة 156: "فهذا آخر كتاب [...؟] وهو آخر الكلام من كتاب [الكتاب] الرابع والحمد لله شكرًا كثيرًا. ويتلوه كتاب [الكتاب] الخامس في الانقرابادين. تمت الجلد الرابع من القانون [... ... ... ...] الله ساكن كشمر، غفر الله [له] ولوالديه. 14.", على ظهر الورقة 157: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. رب يسر وتمم بالخير. الكتاب الخامس من كتب القانون وهو الأقرابادين. لقد فرغنا من الكتاب الأربعة عن ذكر العلم النظري والعملي الحافظ للصحة وحان لنا أن نختم كتاب القانون، الكتاب الخامس، المصنّف في الأدوية المركبة، ليكون كما القرابادين للكتاب ...", على وجه الورقة 1: "الكتاب الرابع من القانون للشيخ الرئيس أبي علي ابن سينا، رحمه الله، ويليه الكتاب الخامس منه وهو الأقراباذين.", and على وجه الورقة 157: "الكتاب الخامس من القانون للشيخ الرئيس أبي علي ابن سينا، رحمه الله، وهو آخر الكتب منه."
Subject (Name):
Avicenna, 980-1037 and ابن سينا،--980-1037.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Materia medica, Medicine, Arab, and Medicine, Medieval
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Selections 880-02, Qānūn fī ḥadd al-ṭibb, قانون في الطب. مختارات 240-02/(3/r, and قانون في حد الطب
Description:
Covers book 1 and 2 only. Book 2 misbound before book 1 (121, 121 leaves). Copied in various naskh hands. The date probably 1226 H/1811 M. The written surface measures 13.5x21 cm. Some marginalia. Contains dozen or so crude drawings in the margin. The paper is light brown and glazed. Some loss of text. The leather binding had no flap., Manuscript., Arabic., and Gift of Harvey Cushing. Purchased from Dr. Saʻīd Kurdustānī.