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_id: 00559033
data:
  descriptionLanguage: eng
  generalNotes:
    - 'Title from caption at incipit on leaf [a2] recto. '
    - 'Dated after February 1473 in BN cat. des incun. A-807.  The text was copied from an exemplar of the edition printed in Milan by Philippus de Lavagnia for Johannes Antonius and Blasius de Terzago on 12 February 1473 (ISTC ia01417500; GW 3115). '
    - 'Dated before 1473 in GW 3114 and Goff A1417. '
    - 'In five parts. '
    - 'Translated from Arabic into Latin by Gerardus Cremonensis. '
    - 'Text in two columns. '
    - 'Spaces left blank for initials. '
    - 'Signatures:  Part I: [a-g¹⁰ h⁸ i¹⁰ k⁴⁺¹];  Part II: [²a-²g¹⁰ ²h⁸ ²i⁶];  Part III: [³a⁶ ³b¹² ³c-³g¹⁰ ³h⁸ ³i⁶⁺¹ ³k-q¹⁰ ³r⁶ ³s-³z¹⁰ A¹⁰ B⁸];  Part IV: [⁴a⁴ ⁴b-⁴n¹⁰];  Part V: [⁵a-⁵d¹⁰].  Leaves [a1], [²a1], [³b1] and [⁴n10] blank. '
    - 'Avicenna [i.e. al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī Ibn Sīnā]. Canon medicinae, Books I-V, in the Latin translation by Gerardus Cremonensis, [a2]r-[⁴n9]v, with each book preceded by a table of contents. '
    - 'BM 15th cent., I, 65 '
    - 'BN cat. des incun., A-807 '
    - 'BSB-Ink, A-956  (with digital facsimile) '
    - 'Goff, A1417 '
    - 'GW, 3114  (with digital facsimiles) '
    - 'Hain, 2197* '
    - 'ISTC, ia01417700 '
    - 'Klebs, 131.3 '
    - 'Oates, 101 '
    - 'Unbound. '
    - 'Fragment: Two leaves only, i.e. leaves [⁴k9] and [⁴k10] from Book IV, Fen VI: incipit on [⁴k9] recto "scothoi[m]a et tenebrositas oculi" and explicit on [⁴k10] verso "Lacertus / [S]Pes latertor[um] [sic] est salama[n]dra : ... et accidunt ei q[ui] bibit carnem [eius apostema]". '
    - 'Illumination and decoration:  Initial in gold set against a ground of blue and red with white tracery, with floral sprays in brown and green and gold bezants extending into the margin, on leaf [⁴k10] recto; initials in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red throughout, line-fillers in blue and red and paragraph marks in alternating red and blue throughout; highlighting of printed capitals in yellow; all supplied by hand, England, late 1470s or early 1480s. '
    - 'Another leaf from the same copy, foliated "541", and also from Coventry Grammar School was presented to Gonville and Caius College by John Tattersall in 1911, and is now Caius: Lower Library, Aa.2.19 (G.A.S. 96): see G. A. Schneider, A descriptive catalogue of the incunabula in the Library of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Cambridge, 1928, no. 96. '
    - '[93, 84, 237, 124, 40] leaves ;'
    - 'Original item identifier in source database: 5518389'
  holdingInstitutionCollection: Inc.0-1
  holdingInstitutionId: CambridgeUL
  hostItemId: ia01417700
  provenance:
    - agent:
        - name: 'Murray, A. G. W.'
          ownerId: 00018798
          role: R390
          type: person
    - agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          name: Cambridge University Library
          ownerId: 3463
          professionOrType:
            - lib
          role: R390
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      certainty: a
      decorationNote: 'Illumination and decoration:  Initial in gold set against a ground of blue and red with white tracery, with floral sprays in brown and green and gold bezants extending into the margin, on leaf [⁴k10] recto; initials in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red throughout, line-fillers in blue and red and paragraph marks in alternating red and blue throughout; highlighting of printed capitals in yellow; all supplied by hand, England, late 1470s or early 1480s.'
      msNote: "Manuscript foliation '507' and '508' in brown ink in upper right corner of rectos, England, late 15th century."
      note: 'Coventry Grammar School Library.  A.G.W [i.e. Alexander Gordon Wynch] Murray, Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge: his note relating to the Coventry provenance in pencil on leaf [⁴k10] recto.  Presented by his brother, Rev. Donald W. Murray, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1919.'
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2653941
          name: Cambridge
  shelfmark: 'Inc.Fragments.0[77]'
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  history:
    - timestamp: 2017-04-30T12:00:00Z