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2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20391982 |
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- <p>This paper presents a primary-source-anchored census of seven witnesses to Jacques Despars's commentary on Avicenna's <i>Canon medicinae</i> (Latin translation of Gerard of Cremona), assembled inside a research substrate that tracks 599 manuscripts, 210 historical figures, and 305 findings across the late-medieval medical record. Despars (c. 1380-1458), regent master of medicine at the University of Paris and physician to the houses of Burgundy and France, compiled his <i>Commentarii in Canonem</i> between 1432 and 1453.</p><p>The substrate identifies seven on-disk witnesses spanning 1431 through 1498: British Library Harley 3799 (volume one of an eleven-volume Despars set), Bibliothèque nationale de France Latin 6915 (Despars-tradition copy carrying preparatory annotations attributed to Despars), BnF Lat. 6926, 6927, 6928, and 6937 (four further Despars commentary volumes from the Jean Budé presentation set, copied 1486-1487), and the Lyon 1498 printed <i>editio princeps</i> (Trechsel / Clein).</p><p>The corpus is corroborated by a thirty-two-folio handwritten-text-recognition walk of the Lyon 1498 volume three (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich digital surrogate, processed under Kraken with the CATMuS Medieval 1.6.0 model), returning 239 raw hits across seven substrate-tracked Latin pharmacological class-words (paleographer-verification pending). The seven witnesses are situated against the Padua-scholastic medical tradition (Cermisone, Montagnana, Hugo Senensis, Gentile da Foligno). The paper closes with a programmatic statement on the Despars-Canon corridor as a substrate-anchored entry into late-medieval medical scholarship the Voynich-studies field has under-engaged with.</p>