Manuscript bifolia from Liber aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus, ca. 1300

Name:

Ibn Serapion

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1300

Description:

Two bifolia from a 13th-century medical treatise attributed to Ibn Serapion or Serapion the Younger and thought to be a Latin translation by Simon of Genoa and Abraham ben Shem-Tob of Tortosa of an unknown Arabic text. Each bifolia consists of one leaf with the complete text of two columns written in 47 lines and one leaf trimmed with loss of text in one column. Written in an Italian Gothic script, with 2-line initials in blue with red flourishing at the beginning of each entry possibly added in England. These leaves are from the second section of the text, devoted to descriptions of individual herbs, minerals, and animals. Each entry begins with the name of the substance transcribed from Arabic, with a rubric for the Latin name. The text of one leaf is devoted to herbs and the other to minerals. Marginal sketch of a sleeping man.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Renzo Rizzi to Bernard Rosenthal, 1960s.; Sold as part of the Rosenthal Collection by Bernard Quaritch (London), cat. 1348 (2007), no. 56.

Subject:

Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800; Medicinal plants; Medicine, Medieval; Medicine, Arab

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions); Treatises; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval

Physical Description:

1 item (2 bifolia) : parchment; 225 x 328 mm, 246 x 332 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Latin, with words transcribed from Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 591 Folder 21

Collection:

Manuscript Fragment Collection