Albucasis (912-1013)

  • Albucasis, 912-1013
Date:
1463
Reference:
MS.17
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Albucasis (912-1013). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Liber Servitoris. [Translated by Abraham Judaeus Tortuosciensis.]

Written in a cursive humanistic hand, in double column, 37 lines to a column. Headings, capitals and paragraph marks in red.

Written by Carolus Guarnarinus of Padua.

Fol. 1, col. 1 (red) Incipit liber seruitoris de/preparatione medicinarum simplicium./[D]IXIT agre/gator huius/operis. Post/quam ego colegi [sic]/librum ... 38, col. 2 ... auffer salem qui est in ea/cum facilitate et serua.// Explicit liber seruitoris quem/ego karlus [sic] de Guarnarinis/scripsi et expleui die. iiio. mensis/nouembris. 1463. Asillo. 38v, 39 Blank. 40 An inscription by an early 16th cent. hand: 'Adi primo delle pentecoste fu sepelito Henrico [?] Cunial [?] et erano incirca giorni 15 che io lo medicaua il putto di Maestro Zuane Zardoy [?]'.

This work was first printed at Venice in 1471.

Produced in Asillo.

Publication/Creation

1463

Physical description

1 volume 40 ll. folio. 30 x 20 1/2 cm. Modern vellum binding.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1930.

Biographical note

The MS. originally formed part of a larger volume which also contained the 'Ordinationes receptarum' by Petrus de Tussignano [MS. No. 781], which is written by the same scribe.

Location of duplicates

This material has been digitised and can be freely accessed online through Wellcome Collection catalogue.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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  • 52406