(Jacobus de Sanatis de Padua)

Lectiones super quartam fen primi Canonis Avicennae.

Written in double column of 51 lines to a column, in a semi-current gothic hand. Initials and paragraph marks in alternate red and blue.

On the first leaf is a large illuminated initial D in gold and colours, with marginal decorations of the same. Within is a miniature portrait, quarter-length, of Avicenna: he has a forked yellow beard, and wears a blue 'haik' with green lining over a red grown, the back-ground is dark blue.

p. 1, col. 1 (DIcemus quod/res medica/cionis etc./Ista est 4a fen primi canonis/in qua determinature de modis/cure egritudinum generaliter... p.223, line 25 Sic quantitas. Nunc Auicenna dictis/finem imponit ad sequentia transiturus supreme/potentie refferendo... line 34 ... ad laudes dei/et beate Virginis marie toctiusque curie ce/lestis triumphantis. Amen.

Produced in Padua?

c.1475

1 volume 112 ll. + 7[8] bl. ll. folio. 33 1/2 28 1/2 cm. Vellum covers from part of a Deed of Sale of an estate dated at Borleto 1300. A blank [?] leaf has been cut out at the end: lower margins of the last 18 leaves cut away, without loss of text. The water-mark on the paper seems to be a variant of Briquet 6138, which is assigned to Ulm 1473.

Purchased 1930.

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

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).