Fragment of Canon medicinae, 1300s-1400s?

Name:

Avicenna, 980-1037

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1300

Description:

Fragment of a leaf from a large manuscript of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia, known in Latin as Liber canonis or Canon medicinae, cut and folded for use in the binding of a 16th-century Italian book (Cox). The text on the leaf is from Book 3, on diseases and symptoms. It is written in rotunda script and probably was copied in Italy in the 14th or 15th century. It is written in two columns, and at its tallest the fragment has 33 lines from the bottom of the page, with the top of the page missing. The more damaged side of the fragment has two examples of rubrication; running titles in simple boxes of red ink in the lower margin; and a paper label from its reuse in a binding. Torn, creased, and water-damaged.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Isaiah M. Cox (CollectibleBooks.org, Dundee, Oregon), 2017.

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions); Manuscripts, Italian -- 14th century; Manuscripts, Italian -- 15th century; Manuscripts, Medieval

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : parchment; 280 x 325 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

In Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 591 Folder 44

Collection:

Manuscript Fragment Collection