Details

Standardized Title:

Kitāb al-Manṣūrī. Latin. Selections.

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions)
Translations (documents)
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

In Latin.

Summary:

Upper half of a bifolium from Gherardo da Cremona's 12th-century Latin translation of al-Rāzī's Arabic medical encyclopedia, copied in Gothic textualis 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.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn 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.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 88-89 (LJS 391).

Cited as:

UPenn Oversize LJS 391.

Contributor:

Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187, translator.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

794930992

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page