![]() The founder of paleography Bernard de Montfaucon defined the volume as Liber Avicennae elegantissimus (the most elegant).Ĭonsistent with medical manuscript tradition, most miniatures in Avicenna's Canon of Medicine (MS 2197) show a physician exercising his profession in a variety of scenes: a wrist test, a urine test, a pharmacy, and the curing of mental illness with medicinal herbs. The manuscript's painted decoration includes ten large miniatures and nearly 500 pages decorated with a wealth of floral borders, animal miniatures, zodiac signs, and golden frames with sophisticated flower motifs. An Exquisitely Elegant Medical Compendium His Canon of Medicine was translated in many languages and published in dozens of copies throughout the centuries - MS 2197 features the only complete and most popular Hebrew version, completed in 1279 by Natan ha-Meati. The manuscript provides invaluable information on late medieval medicine and boasts stunning miniatures and sophisticated decorations where rich color hues blend with gold details.Īvicenna – also known as Ibn Sina – was a famous polymath who lived in what is modern-day Iran from 980 until 1037 CE. ![]() The five volumes, spanning a total of 532 numbered parchment folios, contain the most prominent Hebrew translation of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine, which has been penned in over one hundred copies. Made in northern Italy during the first half of the fifteenth century, Avicenna's Canon of Medicine counts as one of the most exhaustive medical encyclopedias of its age. ![]()
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