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| contents | <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> |
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| spellingShingle | The Despars Avicenna Canon Corpus: A Seven-Witness Substrate-Anchored Census (1431-1498) Honeycutt, Edwin Marshall III Voynich Manuscript Jacques Despars Avicenna Canon medicinae Gerard of Cremona medieval medicine manuscript census Handschriftencensus handwritten text recognition Kraken HTR CATMuS Medieval Padua medical faculty Antonio Cermisone Bartolomeo Montagnana Lyon 1498 Trechsel Jean Bude substrate research BL Harley 3799 BnF Latin 6915 <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> |
| title | The Despars Avicenna Canon Corpus: A Seven-Witness Substrate-Anchored Census (1431-1498) |
| topic | Voynich Manuscript Jacques Despars Avicenna Canon medicinae Gerard of Cremona medieval medicine manuscript census Handschriftencensus handwritten text recognition Kraken HTR CATMuS Medieval Padua medical faculty Antonio Cermisone Bartolomeo Montagnana Lyon 1498 Trechsel Jean Bude substrate research BL Harley 3799 BnF Latin 6915 |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20391982 |