Albucasis (912-1013)

Liber Servitoris. [Translated by Abraham Judaeus Tortuosciensis.]

Written in a cursive humanistic hand, in double column, 37 lines to a column. Headings, capitals and paragraph marks in red.

Written by Carolus Guarnarinus of Padua.

Fol. 1, col. 1 (red) Incipit liber seruitoris de/preparatione medicinarum simplicium./[D]IXIT agre/gator huius/operis. Post/quam ego colegi [sic]/librum ... 38, col. 2 ... auffer salem qui est in ea/cum facilitate et serua.// Explicit liber seruitoris quem/ego karlus [sic] de Guarnarinis/scripsi et expleui die. iiio. mensis/nouembris. 1463. Asillo. 38v, 39 Blank. 40 An inscription by an early 16th cent. hand: 'Adi primo delle pentecoste fu sepelito Henrico [?] Cunial [?] et erano incirca giorni 15 che io lo medicaua il putto di Maestro Zuane Zardoy [?]'.

This work was first printed at Venice in 1471.

Produced in Asillo.

1463

1 volume 40 ll. folio. 30 x 20 1/2 cm. Modern vellum binding.

Purchased 1930.

The MS. originally formed part of a larger volume which also contained the 'Ordinationes receptarum' by Petrus de Tussignano [MS. No. 781], which is written by the same scribe.

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).

This material has been digitised and can be freely accessed online through Wellcome Collection catalogue.