Bryn Mawr College, MS 4

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16507

Shelfmark:

MS 4

Title:

Canon medicinae, liber V

Canon of Medicine

Author:

Avicenna, 980-1037

Avicenna WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: iv+73+iv; 304 x 224 mm bound to 311 x 228 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951

Howard Lehman Goodhart WIKIDATA

Note:

The text begins defectively and some leaves are corroded by ink; the edges of some leaves are worn away, resulting in a slight loss of text, especially on fol. 1
Binding: Late nineteenth-century parchment binding with two parchment clasps; on spine in pencil: "Avicenna"; on a torn paper label in ink: "43**"
Layout: Single column, twenty-seven to thirty-one lines, no ruling; written area: 260 x 184 mm
Script: Gothic cursive
Decoration: The spaces for initials are left unfilled, but the guide letters for the decorator are visible
Related resource: Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962, p. 434, no. 4.
Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40).
Related resource: Avicenna, Liber canonis medicinae; (Venetiis, 1527), Liber quintus ff. 391-420.
Provenance: Typed note glued to inside front cover suggests that the text was "probably" written in Spain; early provenance unknown; purchased in 1949 from H. P. Kraus by Howard L. Goodhart (bookplate), and presented by him to Bryn Mawr College in 1951

Keyword:

Paper

Spain

Spanish (culture or style)

Science

Medicine

Fourteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS04.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS4/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College