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Book/Printed Material The Book of Medicine Dedicated to Mansur and Other Medical Tracts. Liber ad Almansorem

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Title

  • The Book of Medicine Dedicated to Mansur and Other Medical Tracts.

Other Title

  • Liber ad Almansorem

Summary

  • Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi (also known by Latinized versions of his name, Rhazes or Rasis, 865--925 AD) was a Persian polymath, physician, and philosopher. He was born in Rayy, south of present-day Tehran, Iran. After studying philosophy, at around the age of 30 he began studying medicine under the supervision of Abu Al-Hassan al-Tabari. He became the head of a Rayy hospital and later headed a hospital in Baghdad. Al-Razi was known in the fields of medicine and chemistry, which he combined to prescribe medications for numerous ailments. Al-Razi's Kitab al-Mansouri (Book of medicine dedicated to Mansur) is a short, general textbook on medicine in ten chapters, which he dedicated in 903 to the Samanid prince Abu Salih al-Mansur ibn Ishaq, governor of Rayy. The work was rendered into Latin as Liber ad Almansorem by Gerard de Sabloneta, a 13th-century Italian, who specialized in translating Arab medical texts and who is said to have translated the work of the great Islamic scholar ibn Sīnā, or Avicenna (980--1037), into Latin by order of Emperor Frederick II. The first Latin printed edition of Al-Mansouri was produced in Italy in 1481. This edition from 1500, containing the translation of Al-Mansouri along with other medical tracts by various Arab, Greek, and Jewish authors, was printed in Venice by Johannes Hamman.

Names

  • Gherardo, da Sabbioneta, 13th century Translator.
  • Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925? Author.

Created / Published

  • Venice : Johannes Hamman, 1500.

Headings

  • -  Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • -  Iraq
  • -  865 to 1500
  • -  Medicine, Arab
  • -  Textbooks

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
  • -  Content in Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666769

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Gherardo, Da Sabbioneta, 13Th Century Translator, and Abū Bakr Muḥammad Ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī. The Book of Medicine Dedicated to Mansur and Other Medical Tracts. Venice: Johannes Hamman, 1500. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666769/.

APA citation style:

Gherardo, D. S. & Rāzī, A. B. M. I. Z. (1500) The Book of Medicine Dedicated to Mansur and Other Medical Tracts. Venice: Johannes Hamman. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666769/.

MLA citation style:

Gherardo, Da Sabbioneta, 13Th Century Translator, and Abū Bakr Muḥammad Ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī. The Book of Medicine Dedicated to Mansur and Other Medical Tracts. Venice: Johannes Hamman, 1500. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666769/>.