Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Avicenna, 980-1037

Other related names

• Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 14-1187, translator
• Clarke, William, former owner
• Church, John, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954196093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/774413817
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5419609

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1250 and 1299

Place

England

Summary

Sections from Books 1 and 2 of Avicenna's 11th-century comprehensive medical work, as translated into Latin in the 12th century by Gherardo da Cremona. Book 1 addresses medicine generally; the section in the manuscript is from the first treatise and concerns the four elements. Book 2 is devoted to materia medica. A few small stemmata are drawn in the lower margins in Book 1(f. 3r-4r), and marginal notes and headings appear throughout, with marginal chapter numbers in the section from Book 2 (f. 12r-17v). Repairs to the centers of leaves in the section from Book 1, with vellum patches and text supplied in the first half of the 14th century (f. 5-11; Quaritch).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from opening rubric (f. 1r).
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

6-line puzzle initial in red and blue with flourishing in red and blue (f. 1r); 1-line initials alternating between red and blue in the table of contents (f. 1r-2v); 2-line initials alternating between red and blue, with contrasting flourishes, in Book 1 (f. 3r-11v); running head L[iber] I in red and blue, sometimes with simple flourishes in the contrasting color (f. 1r-11v); underlining and rubrication in red throughout; manicules in brown and red ink throughout most of Book 1 (f. 3r-9r).

Script

Provenance

• Possible 18th- or 19th-century ownership inscriptions: John Church (f. 13v); William Clarke (f. 18v).
   
• Sold by Bernard Quaritch Ltd., cat. 1270 (2000), no. 7, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Arab
• Medicine, Medieval
• Materia medica--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• Treatise
• Science -- Medicine
• England
• English

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Manicule, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — Manicule, f. 3r
• fol. 3r — Drawing, Face, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Manicule, f. 3v
• fol. 3v — Drawing, Face, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Manicule, f. 4r
• fol. 4r — Drawing, Face, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Manicule, f. 4v
• fol. 4v — Drawing, Face, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Manicule, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Manicule, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Manicule, f. 6r
• fol. 6r — Drawing, Face, f. 6r
• fol. 6v — Manicule, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Manicule, f. 7r
• fol. 7r — Drawing, Face, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Manicule, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Manicule, f. 8r
• fol. 8r — Drawing, Face, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Manicule, f. 8v
• fol. 8v — Drawing, Face, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Manicule, f. 9r
• fol. 9r — Drawing, Face, f. 9r
• fol. 15v — Manicule, f. 15v
• fol. 16v — Drawing, Face, f. 16v