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Gerard of Cremona
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Hôtel-Dieu de Beaufort-en-Vallée
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medical / scholastic / academic
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ca. 1300
13. century
14. century
1275Gregorian
1325Gregorian
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Extent: fols. 1; membrane; 305 x 218 (190 x 128)
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Layout: 2 columns, 49 lines
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Decoration: 4 2-line initials in red with faint contrasting penwork opening new chapters, rubrics and textual underlining in red
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Bifolium recycled as a wrapper for a later accounts book dated 1586
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Provenance: Medieval, and later, ownerwhip by the Hôtel-Dieu de Beaufort-en-Vallée in Anjou
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Fragment recycled as a bookbinding for a 16th-century account book at the Hôtel-Dieu de Beaufort-en-Vallée in Anjou. The original manuscript was likely used at this hospital. 13th-century translation into Latin of the 9th-century Syriac medical treatise Serapion.
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The translator, Gerard of Cremona is not to be confused with the 12th-century translator of Aristotle by the same name.
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Incipit: Fol. 468.1: et confert et cauterium
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Fol. 468.2: propter illud qod sumitur in comestione
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Explicit: Fol. 468.1: lanam inunctam oleo…in quo decoctum est
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Fol. 468.2: cum eis utrique spica inda et miscetur
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Text from Tractatus IV, Ch. 10-12 (fol. 468.1) and Ch. 20-21 (fol. 468.2), on the topics of the kidneys and bladder and the extraction of kidney stones
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26 August 2024
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26 August 2024
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