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Rhazes (852-932). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Rhazes (852-932)
- Date:
- Mid 14th Century
- Reference:
- MS.679
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
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Description
Liber divisonum, Antidotarium, Synonima: translated by Gerardus Cremonensis.
Written in double column of 56 lines to a column, in a neat gothic hand, probably of Italian origin. Large decorated initials in colours on fol. 1, fol. 12, fol. 27v: other ornamental initials and paragraphs marks in alternate blue and red: headings in red.
Fol. 1 (red) Incipit liber diuisionum rasys, prologus.//UERBA [ABUBETRI]/filii zacharie [arazi] ventilata/fuit in presentia cuiusdam probi ui/ri... line 15 (red) Explicit prologus. Capitulum primum de alopitia. 12, col. 2, line 47 (red)...Expletus est tractatus nonus./Incipit tractatus .X.us de febribus.//FEBRICITANTES//ET PRECIPUE//acute non solum necess est... 27v, col. 1, line 38 ...que eradicant/pannum delent uestigia earum. (red) Incipit antidotarium rasis al/bubetri filii zaccarie arazi. DIXI IN HOC ME/O LIBRO MEDI/cinas quarum necessitas est... col. 2, line 36 (Text begins) Confectio tincture denigrantis capillos... 33, col. 2, line 30 (End)...in uino stiptico/aut oleo rosato, sedat dolorem usque quod fiat algebra. line 32 (red) Ad doloren capitis./Dolori capitis iuuerit tunc si fuerit... 33v (End) ...et post hoc pone super ipsum/unguentum carnis generatorum. Synonima: written in 7 columns. 34 [Two lines wanting]...et fuerit in/membris omnibus et precipue in/oculis et cito recedunt./Alasef id est nodi qui fuerint in collo/in gutta et sub ascillis et/inguibus./... 36v (End) z ubd./Radix mandragore./z ufferaf.
Publication/Creation
Mid 14th Century
Physical description
1 volume 36 ll. folio. 31 x 27 cm. On vellum, modern half vellum binding. Upper margins throughout damaged by damp, and roughly repaired.
Acquisition note
Purchased 1931.
Biographical note
The last work has also been attributed to Mescue and to Seraption. The lines beginning 'Ad dolorem captitis' on fol. 33, are entered separately by Thorndike in his Catalogue of Incipits col. 217, as anonymous.
Finding aids
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).
Location of duplicates
This material has been digitised and can be freely accessed online through Wellcome Collection catalogue.
Ownership note
These works by Rhazes were first printed at Milan in 1481.
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Accession number
- 64574