Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Canon medicinae, liber V

Authors

• Avicenna, 980-1037 (http://viaf.org/viaf/89770781/#Avicenna,_980-1037)

Other related names

• Gherardo, da Sabbioneta, active 13th century, translator (http://viaf.org/viaf/229046600/#Gherardo,_da_Sabbioneta,_active_13th_century)
• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/78699777/#Goodhart,_Howard_Lehman,_1884?-1951)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 4
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms4.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Spain

Summary

This is a Spanish manuscript from circa 1380, which contains Avicenna's Canon medicinae, liber V, translated by Gherardo da Sabbioneta.

Notes

• The text begins defectively and some leaves are corroded by ink; the edges of some leaves are worn away, resulting in a slight loss of text, especially on fol. 1
   

Extent

Iv+73+iv; 304 x 224 mm bound to 311 x 228 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (3, +1), 2-8 (10), 9 (6)

Support

Paper

Binding

Late nineteenth-century parchment binding with two parchment clasps; on spine in pencil: "Avicenna"; on a torn paper label in ink: "43**"

Layout

Single column, twenty-seven to thirty-one lines, no ruling; written area: 260 x 184 mm

Decoration

The spaces for initials are left unfilled, but the guide letters for the decorator are visible

Script

Gothic cursive

Colophon

On fol. 73r: "Completus est liber quintus canonis qui est antidotarius senis regis ab hooli hassen filii arabrassem et eius complemento completus est liber totus. Explicit iste liber possit sua iura magister. Explicit liber quintus auicene."

Provenance

• Typed note glued to inside front cover suggests that the text was "probably" written in Spain; early provenance unknown; purchased in 1949 from H. P. Kraus by Howard L. Goodhart (bookplate), and presented by him to Bryn Mawr College in 1951
   

Related resources

• Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 434, no. 4.
• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40).
• Avicenna, Liber canonis medicinae; (Venetiis, 1527), Liber quintus ff. 391-420.

Keywords

• 14th century
• Spain
• Science--Medicine
• Spanish
• Paper

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Canon medicinae, liber V; incipit: ...et obliuioni, et melancolie, et frigore cerebri, et tremori, et pulsu cordis, et conseruat embrionem [fol. 1r]; explicit: Et omnis obulus est herates iii, et omnis herate est iiii grana ordine et obuli res sunt herate ix. Alcantus est 3.i.5 eboati ii sunt 3.iii obuli viii sunt herates xiiii. Explicit. [fol. 73r]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate for Howard Lehman Goodhart
• Inside front cover — Typed description of manuscript, glued in
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil: a list of other Avicenna manuscripts included in De Ricci
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Notes in ink
• fol. 60v — Manicule
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil: a list of other Avicenna manuscripts included in De Ricci
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Notes in ink