NOTE SULLA TRADUZIONE LATINA DEL KITĀB AL-ADWIYA AL-MUFRADA (LIBER DE SIMPLICI MEDICINA) DI AL-GĀFIQĪ

NOTES ON THE LATIN TRANSLATION OF THE KITĀB AL-ADWIYA AL-MUFRADA LIBER DE SIMPLICI MEDICINA) WRITTEN BY AL-GĀFIQĪ In this paper, I put together some preliminary notes on the Latin translation of al-Gafiqi’s Kitab al-adwiya al-mufrada. This translation, known as Liber de simplici medicina, was translated by a certain, not yet identified, “magister G.” in Lerida in 1258, and has not been examined in full so far. In this paper, I provide some new information about the Latin translation and its manuscript transmission, as well as on its characteristic. The article is completed by an appendix in which I provide a transcription of some selected chapters taken from the Liber and the Capitula de simplicibus medicinis, a short pharmacological collection handed over by the same manuscripts transmitting the Liber de simplici medicina, and attributed to Arnold of Bamberg.