Identifier:

*170/524.

Scope and content:

1) f. 1: [Prologue]Verba Abbubecri Rasis fili Izacane liber incipit translatus a magistro G(erardo) Cremonensi in Toleto de arabico in latinum qui ab eo Almansorius vocatur eo quod Regis Mansorii Ysaac filii precepto editus sit. In hoc meo libro regis cuius vitam Deus prolonget . . . regis placeam eique incessanter adherere possim; [list of chapters] Tractatus primus de figura et forma membrorum . . . Tractatus decimus de febribus . . . De aggregationibus et summis iuvamenti membrorum quas nos premittere oportet in principio huius tractatus. De forma ossium . . . De forma matricis; [book 1] De aggregationibus et summis iuvamenti membrorum quas nos premittere oportet in principio huius tractatus, Creator omnium Deus ossa condidit ut per ea corpus . . . membro continuantur sensum et dantes et// f. 1v washed clean.

Abubetri Rhazae Maomethi . . . Opera exquisitiora . . . per Gerardum Toletanum medicum Cremonensem . . . latinitate donata (Basel, 1544) 5-8 line 8, with variations.

2) f. 2: [Book 2 chapters 27-45] //color vero inter rubeum et album medius equalem significat complexionem . . . De significatione pedum, Pedes in quibus carnis est multitudo atque ipsius duricies// f. 2v washed clean.

Ibid. pp. 48-51.

Acquisition information:

Written in Italy in the second half of the thirteenth century. Used for binding; ff. 1v and 2v have been completely washed. The leaves bound in paper over cardboard, s. XIX/XX. Belonged to Dr. Alfred Jerome Brown (1878-1960), professor of surgery at the University of Nebraska and author of Old Masterpieces in Surgery . . . (Omaha, 1926) and More Old Masterpieces in Surgery (Chicago, 1931); his bookplate, inside the front cover. His sale, Swann Auction Galleries, 31 March 1949 (catalog no. 228), lot 229. Bought by UCLA from Zeitlin and Ver Brugge, Los Angeles, in 1974 or 1975.

Physical description:

Parchment, 2 leaves: f. 1, 330 × 203 (232 × 140) mm., in 2 columns of 59 lines; f. 2, 325 × 190 (235 × 132) mm., in 2 columns of 60 lines; ruled in lead; triple lines between the columns. Written in a round Italian gothic bookhand of university type (littera textualis); olive brown ink. Opening word of f. 1 in red and blue majuscule letters, 11-line, on red and blue penwork; f. 1 rb, 8-line initial in blue on red penwork; 1-line initials alternately red and blue, slashed with the opposite color, placed outside the written space; initials in the text touched with red; titles in red minuscule; a running title “L(iber)” in red, f. 2.

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