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Viaticum

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Author: Constantine, the African, approximately 1020-1087.

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Viaticum by Constantine the African with gloss, 13th century

 Part
Identifier: MS 173/ff. 9r-102v
Contents MS 173 contains Viaticum by Constantine the African (Constantinus Africanus). Constantine's text is a Latin translation of a medical manual by a 10th century Arab physician, Abu Ja‛far Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn abī Khālid al-Jazzār, a student of the Arab Jewish physician Isaac Israeli ben Solomon (known as Isaac Judaeus in Europe). Constantine's Latin adaption of the original text followed the same organisational structure of medical knowledge and treatments,...
Dates: 13th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including two texts