[2690] Magliabech. XX-20, fol. 12r; Sloane 1305, fol. 19r.
[2691] Conciliator, Diff. X., fol. 16GH, in ed. Venice, 1526.
[2692] Commentary on the Sphere, cap. 3.
[2693] Also given as Muhammad ibn Zakariya (Abu Bakr) ar-Razi and Abu Bekr Mohammed ben Zachariah.
[2694] Withington in his Medical History, 1894, gives the date as 932, perhaps by a misprint.
[2695] Ibn Abi Usaibi’a (1203-1269, himself a physician and son of an oculist) “Sources of Information concerning Classes of Physicians,” compiled at Damascus, 1245-1246, ed. by Müller, Cairo, 1882; and Ibn Khallikan (1211-1282), “Obituaries of Men of Note,” written between 1256 and 1274.
For these titles and most of the general account of the life and works of Rasis which follows I am indebted to G. S. A. Ranking’s “The Life and Works of Rhazes,” pp. 237-68, in Transactions of the Seventeenth International Congress of Medicine, Section XXIII, London, 1913.
[2696] The list is reproduced by Ranking (1913) in Arabic and Latin, largely on the basis of a MS at the University of Glasgow, which contains a Latin translation by a Greek priest, who died in 1729, of the Arabic work of Usaibi’a, or part of it, mentioned in the previous note: Hunterian Library, MS 44, fols. 1-19v.
[2697] I have examined both these editions at the British Museum; Withington does not mention them in his History of Medicine, but cites editions of the Continens, Venice, 1542, and Opera Parva, 1510, and a modern edition (1858) by the Sydenham Society of On the Small Pox and Measles. The pages are not numbered in the edition of 1481, so that I shall not be able to give exact references to them.
[2698] This was sometimes reproduced separately: see Wolfenbüttel 2885, 15th century, fol. 1, Phisonomia Rasis, fol. 2, Phisonomia Aristetelis, Rasis et Philomenis, summorum magistrorum in philosophia.