Fragment of manuscript bifolium from the Liber ad Almansorem, between 1200 and 1225?

Contributor:

Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187 (translator)

Name:

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

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1200

Description:

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.

Language:

Latin

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.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs391.html

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions); Translations (documents); Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 leaf : parchment; 107-116 x 384 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. fragment.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; In Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 391

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)