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Title

Authors

• Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?

Other related names

• Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 14-1187, translator
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9957614163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794938558
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5761416

Publisher

Language

Summary

Upper half of a bifolium from Gherardo da Cremona's 12th-century Latin translation of al-Rāzī's Arabic medical encyclopedia, copied in transitional script in the early 13th century, possibly in Italy. The running titles refer to Book VIIII and Book X and give the author's name as Rasis. One heading refers to the effects of an ulcer (apostema). Each page is written in 2 columns; the incomplete columns have up to 23 lines. 2-line initials alternate between blue with red flourishing and red with blue flourishing; paragraph marks in blue; rubrication in red. Substantial glossing in same ink as main text in smaller script in margins. Prickings visible on one edge.

Notes

• Ms. fragment.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Sold by Philip J. Pirages, cat. 45 (Nov. 2000), no. 985, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Arab

Genres

• Fragments
• Translations
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• Fragment
• Science -- Medicine
• Arabic
• Gloss

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