Avicenna (980-1036)

Liber quintus Canonis. Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis. Written in double column of 53 lines to a column. On the first leaf a large illuminated P in gold and colours: other capitals in alternate blue and red with floreations in red and purple, paragraph marks in alternate red and blue, headings in red. Numerous larger initials are only in outline, and many of the capitals are without decoration. Fol. 1 (red) Incipit liber quintus canone [sic] de medicina et / antidotarium, et cetera. / [P]Ostquam expediti / sumus in libris qua / tuor ... 35v, col.2 [Ends] ... coathi / .1. sunt. iii. oboli viii. sunt kerates xxiiii. / / (red) Expletus est liber Vus libri canonis / auicenne.

Late 14th Century

1 volume 36 ll. (last bl.). folio. 33 x 25 cm. On vellum, modern boards. Corners of first eleven leaves wormed.

Purchased 1910.

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).