Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. ebr. 368

Vatican, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. ebr. 368

Medical treatises

Physical Description
  • Material: Paper
  • Pages: 114 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 210 x 145-158 mm

Detailed Description
  • Hand Description:
    Italian hand, various writers.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th cent.
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts
  • Benjamin Richler , Hebrew Manuscripts in the Vatican Library, Vatican City (2008) , 310-314
  • Carsten Schliwski , "Averroes’ Medical Work in Hebrew: Translation and Compilation", in: Raphaela Veit & Carsten Schliwski (ed.), Averroes as a Physician – Intellectual and Social Contexts of Medicine in Al-Andalus (forthcoming)
Content
Medical treatise in oils 19r - 19v
Medical recipes 67r - 67v
On signs of feces 66v - 66v
Medical recipes 66r - 66r
Fragment from a medical treatise 64r - 65v
Treatise on drugs 56r - 63r
The Beginning of Wisdom 54v - 55v
Laws on terefot 52r - 54r
Kitāb al-Manṣūrī 39r - 51v
Medical recipes 29r - 38v
Treatise on pulses 27r - 28r
Extracts on medicine 25r - 26v
Treatise on astrology 22r - 24v
Medical recipes 20r - 21v
Chirurgia by Bruno of Longoburgo 1r - 18v
Averroes Information about Diarrhoeal Diseases 68r - 68v
  • Explicit:
    וזאת היא העצה הנכונה ועל זה והשם יאריך בעזרתיו ובעזרתכם אמן . נשלמה אגרת השלשול מבן רשד החכם

  • Note:
    Without the introduction of the translator. Not a work originally composed by Averroes, for details cf. C. Schliwski, Averroes' Medical Work in Hebrew. Translation and Compilation, in: R. Veit/C. Schliwski (eds.), Averroes as a Physician – Intellectual and Social Contexts of Medicine in Al-Andalus (forthcoming).

  • Colophon:
    בסופו: "נשלמ’ אגרת השלשול אבן רשד החכם".

Treatise on uroscopy 69r - 69v
Treatise on uroscopy 70r - 70v
ספר אגור 71r - 74v
Hippocrates Prognostics 75r - 76v
Fragment on pulses 77r - 77v
Medical remedies 93r - 96r
Astrological tables 97r - 103v
Astrological treatise 104r - 115r