M0004097: Page from Chyrurgia Albucasim, Albucasis (Surgical Treatise, Al Zahrawi)

Date:: 14 December 1934

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/33/46

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        M0004097: Page from Chyrurgia Albucasim, Albucasis (Surgical Treatise, Al Zahrawi)WT/D/1/20/1/33/46

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M0004097: Page from Chyrurgia Albucasim, Albucasis (Surgical Treatise, Al Zahrawi). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Albucasis, Chirurgia Albucasum: title page.

Description

Photograph of the title page from the manuscript title: Chirurgia Albucasum (Surgical Treatise) by Albucasis (Khalaf ibn Abbas Abu al Kasim, also known as al-Zahrawi). Originally in Arabic, this manuscript was translated into Latin by Gerard of Creinona and is dated from the early 14th Century. The original can be found at the British Library under the reference Add MS 36617.

Publication/Creation

14 December 1934

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

Related material

The original manuscript is held at the British Library at Add MS 36617

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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