Constantine the African (c. 1020-1098/9), translator

Fragmenta Manuscripta 030: Portions of Constantinus Africanus, Viaticum (Book II, chs. 4 & 7)

1200 - 1250

Parchment, (178 x 122 mm).
Two columns with 43 lines visible, grid dimensions 168 x 48 mm, writing on top, bounding lines on verso (hair) with bounding line between 2 columns, 5mm in from each column.

Script: Gothic

Condition: Discolored on verso, recto

Notes: Text seems intact, glossing trimmed at top

Contains portions of Constantinus Africanus's Viaticum, a Latin adaptation of a medical manual written by Abu Ja‛far Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn abī Khālid al-Jazzār (d. 979 or 1004-5) and titled Kitāb Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-hādir (Provision for the Traveller and the Nourishment of the Settled).

Recto: Book II, ch. 7
Verso: Book II, ch. 4

Identification of the text by Byungwoong Yoo, independent researcher.

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.

Digital Scriptorium: https://search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS10103

Fragmenta Manuscripta 030

John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

Latin

manuscript fragment

England