MINIATURIST, Italian
(active 1300-1320)

Rasis: Liber medicinalis Almansoris

1300-20
Manuscript (Plut. 73. 43)
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence

This manuscript contains the Italian translation of the famous medical text by the renowned ninth-century Islamic doctor Rasis. It is written in two columns and contains four miniatures on folio 6v. In the first Rasis is shown presenting his work to King Almansor; in the second he is examining urine; in the last two he is examining and treating patients.