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Title

University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 359 - Liber canonis (Video Orientation)

Authors

Dot PorterFollow

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Date of this Version

Fall 2015

Comments

Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 359 - Liber canonis, by Avicenna. Written in England, between 1250 and 1299.

Summary: Sections from Books 1 and 2 of Avicenna's 11th-century comprehensive medical work, as translated into Latin in the 12th century by Gherardo da Cremona. Book 1 addresses medicine generally; the section in the manuscript is from the first treatise and concerns the four elements. Book 2 is devoted to materia medica.

See More at Penn in Hand

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/medren/detail.html?id=MEDREN_5419609

Link to eBook

http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/121/

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/LJSchoenbergManuscripts/html/ljs359.html

Disciplines

Medieval Studies | Other Arts and Humanities

Streaming Media

Recommended Citation

Porter, D. (2015, October 01). University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 359 - Liber canonis (Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/73