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
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