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Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, ? 865-? 925 (medieval Islamic physician)

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Dates

  • Existence: 0865?-0925?- - 0925

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

De sectionibus et cauteriis et ventosis, by Al-Razi , 13th century

 Part
Identifier: MS 167/ff. 19v-21r
Contents ff. 19-21 of MS 167 contain a text on cauterisation, by the nineth-tenth century physician from Baghdad, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi, known as Al Razi, or Rhazes in the Latin West. The text is titled on f. 19v: Hic incipit modus cauterizandi, and begins properly with Sciendum est quod antiqui in pluribus locis... The short treatise ends on f. 21r, with parcium...
Dates: 13th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including eight medical texts

Expositio cum questionibus super textu Rasis in nono Almansoris, 1481

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Identifier: MS 169/ff. 3r-37r, 41r-44r
Contents The first treatise in MS 169 is seemingly a uniquely extant text (noted in Thorndike and Kibre's Catalogue of Incipits. In the late 15th-century hand of Robert of Sherburn, it is entitled Expositio cum questionibus super textu Rasis in 9o Almansoris. The text itself is contained on ff. 3r-37r, and on ff. 41-44 there is an index to the text. The treatise seems to be questions, or a form of commentary, on...
Dates: 1481
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript containing six medical texts

Lumen luminum minus et perfecti magisteri by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī (version by Wynandus de Ruffo Clipeo), 15th century

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Identifier: MS 121/ff. 73r-94r
Contents The treatise expounds the process to obtain the Rebis, i.e. the philosopher's stone, the most important goal sought by alchemy. The author presents himself as Wynandus de Ruffo clipeo (possibly a Latinized form of the German surname Rothschild), a doctor from an area which corresponds today to the Netherlands (Trajectensis; Wynandus entitles the work Gloria mundi et lux solis et via veritatis....
Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript containing seventeen texts