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Defective copy of a commentary on a poem on medicine by Ibn Sīnā. This copy contains marginal and interlinear notes and glosses in Latin and Spanish, a statement in Spanish authorizing a Christian physician named Miguel Xeb of Játiva to examine the manuscript, signed by the Archbishop Martín de Ayala of Valencia, dated March 25, 1566 (fol. 107b) and a statement in Spanish by Hieronymo de Mur, s.j., to the effect that he examined the ms. by order of Gregorio Miranda, apostolic inquisitor in the kingdom of Valencia. This statement is confirmed by Nicolás Verdun, notary for the Inquisition (fol. 135b). For more details, see Skemer, D. An Arabic book before the Spanish Inquisition.
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