Avicennae de congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum : being sections of the Kitâb al-shifâ' / The Latin and Arabic texts, edited with an English translation of the latter and with critical notes by E.J. Holmyard and D.C. Mandeville.

Paris : P. Guethner, 1927.

viii, 86 pages ; 25 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: P.Geuthner

The "De mineralibus," appended, in medieval Arabic-Latin versions, to the fourth book of the Meteorologica of Aristotle. It is "partly a direct translation and partly a résumé" of passages in Avicenna's Kitâb al-shifâ' (Book of the remedy), made by Alfred of Sareshel. cf. Introd

"Select bibliography": p. [57]-58.