Medicine -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800

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,...