Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187 (translator of Arabic works into Latin)
Person
Dates
- Existence: [1113,1114]-1187- - 1187
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
MS 165: Composite manuscript containing three texts, 13th century
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Identifier: MS 165
Contents
Contains three texts, all in the same hand. Although these are three separate texts, the binding of them together, with the two short texts following Avicenna's Canon is a common arrangement.ff. 1r-406r: Canon of Medicine by Avicenna [Arabic: Ibn Sina], in 12th-century Gerard of Cremona's Latin translationff. 407r-411v: synonima Avicenniff. 411v-412r: Expositiones...
Dates:
13th century
MS 166: Composite manuscript containing sixteen texts by/attributed to Galen, late 13th century
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Identifier: MS 166
Contents
Contains sixteen texts by/attributed to Galen, in two different hands.ff. 1r-15v; 271r-274v:'De morbo et accidente'ff. 15v-48r; 266v-271r: 'De Interioribus'ff. 48r-75v: 'Megategni', 11th-century Latin translation by Constantinus Africanusff. 75v-92r: 'De Creticis Diebus'ff. 92r-114v: 'De Crisibus', 12th-century translation by Gerard of Cremonaff. 115r-125v: 'De elementis secundum Hippocratem', translated by Gerard of...
Dates:
late 13th century
MS 170: Practica cum antidotario, by Johannes Serapion, 13th-14th century
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Identifier: MS 170
Contents
MS 170 is the Practica sive breviarium, a Latin translation from the 12th century by Gerard of Cremona. Gerard translated one of the two medical texts by 9th-century Christian physician, Johannes Serapion (also known as Yahya ibn Sarafyun, and Serapion the Elder). Little is known about Serapion, other than that he lived during the second half of the 9th century, and wrote medical treatises in Syriac. Through Gerard's Latin translation, which made the text...
Dates:
13th-14th century