Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.304

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    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.304
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.304
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.304
    • Wellcome Library, MS.304
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
  • Date of Origin :
  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 196 leaves (last 2 blank). folio. 29 x 22 cm. Original wooden boards, slightlywormed, 19th cent. rebacking, parts of two clasps wanting.

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Notes

Data Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections

  • Expositio in primam Fen quarti Canonis Avicennae. Written by two lands: ff. 1-164 in a semi-current Italian script in two columns, 38 lines to a column; the remainder in a smaller semi-gothic hand, 52 lines to a column. Rough ornamental pen-drawn initials on fol. 1 and fol. 35. Ff. 26-34 are blank.

    IESVS x pc.//GENTILIS IN QVARTVM AVICENNE.//[F]Ebris est calor extraneus etc./Excusati ab hiis que in librorum/principiis dici consueeverunt... 194v, col. 2 A qua infamia et alliis perculis nos liberet en eternam concedat glorium deus. Amen. Below in the lower margin by the same hand: 'Explicit expositio prime fen 4tl canonis Auicenne dita [sic] ab excellentissimo Magistro Gentili medicine illustra/tore etc. Scripta et completa per me Batista minimum Artium et medicine doctorem/In annis domini 1428 die 14 mensis octubris hora 18 cum dimidia post prandium'.

  • This work was written in 1346, and first printed at Padua in 1476.
  • Purchased 1910.

Bibliography

  • 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).

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