Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.376

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.376
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.376
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.376
    • Wellcome Library, MS.376
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1475
  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 112 leaves + 7[8] bl. leaves folio. 33 1/2 28 1/2 cm. Vellum covers from part of a Deed of Sale of an estate dated at Borleto 1300. A blank [?] leaf has been cut out at the end: lower margins of the last 18 leaves cut away, without loss of text. The water-mark on the paper seems to be a variant of Briquet 6138, which is assigned to Ulm 1473.

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  • Lectiones super quartam fen primi Canonis Avicennae.

    Written in double column of 51 lines to a column, in a semi-current gothic hand. Initials and paragraph marks in alternate red and blue.

    On the first leaf is a large illuminated initial D in gold and colours, with marginal decorations of the same. Within is a miniature portrait, quarter-length, of Avicenna: he has a forked yellow beard, and wears a blue 'haik' with green lining over a red grown, the back-ground is dark blue.

    p. 1, col. 1 (DIcemus quod/res medica/cionis etc./Ista est 4a fen primi canonis/in qua determinature de modis/cure egritudinum generaliter... p.223, line 25 Sic quantitas. Nunc Auicenna dictis/finem imponit ad sequentia transiturus supreme/potentie refferendo... line 34 ... ad laudes dei/et beate Virginis marie toctiusque curie ce/lestis triumphantis. Amen.

    Produced in Padua?

  • Purchased 1930.

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  • 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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