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Articella

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: The Articella is a collection of medical treatises bound together in one volume that was used mainly as a textbook and reference manual between the 13th and the 16th centuries.It grew around Hunayn bin Ishaq's exposition of ancient Greek medicine, principally based on Galen's Ars Medica.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

MS 163: Composite manuscript containing tables and three texts, 12th-15th centuries

 Item
Identifier: MS 163
Contents Contains three texts, and tables subsequently inserted into the volume. The fly leaves (ff. i-ii) containing the tables are by later hands, while the rest of the manuscript is by a single 12th-century hand with only the exception of f. 72, which is written by a different but contemporary 12th-century hand.The tables on f. ir and f. iiv list three additional texts, now missing, or perhaps never copied: 'Liber urinarum a voce theophili' (Theophilus Protospatharius's, also known as...
Dates: 12th-15th centuries