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Rhazes Liber Nonus Title Page

1497

The title page of a 1497 printed edition collecting several of al-Razi's medical writings in Latin translation.

This printed edition gathers al-Razi's medical writings, showing their lasting importance in European medicine centuries after his death.

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Scanned page of a 1497 printed book with a handwritten annotation at top and a printed heading 'Contenta in hoc volumine' followed by a two-column table of contents listing titles in Latin, with further handwritten notes at the bottom. — Title page of a 1497 printed edition of al-Razi's medical writings.

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What it is

This is the title page of a 1497 printed book listing the contents of a volume collecting many works by al-Razi (Rhazes) in Latin, including the Liber ad Almansorem and other treatises on illnesses, children's diseases, and more. The page carries handwritten annotations as well as the printed table of contents.

Why it matters

By 1497, printing had made it possible to gather many of al-Razi's scattered writings into a single affordable volume for European readers and students. This shows how deeply al-Razi's medical works, originally written in Arabic centuries earlier, had become part of the standard medical curriculum in Europe.

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Why might a printer choose to collect many different works by the same author into one volume?
What does the long list of titles tell us about how prolific and wide-ranging al-Razi's writing was?
What do the handwritten notes added to this printed page suggest about how readers used the book?

This book is part of the curated material that grounds the AI version of Al-Razi on Humy.ai — when students ask about related events, the AI can quote it and cite it.