# UNESCO Memory of the World lists Canon-related medical manuscripts for conservation and access

Date: 2005

## The fact

The 2005 inscription of medieval medical-pharmacy manuscripts, including a Canon Book II, is also a conservation-and-access policy. Listing creates duties to preserve and to make the objects known.

## Context

Split the living-recipe risk onto the worsening Book II row. High confidence on 2005.

[Avicenna](/people/avicenna) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

The named official or archival page and the independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: UNESCO Memory of the World — Medieval manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy (https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/medieval-manuscripts-medicine-and-pharmacy; UNESCO).

## Significance

A Memory of the World file is a conservation-access path, not a pharmacopoeia licence.

A Memory of the World file is a conservation-access path, not a pharmacopoeia licence.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Avicenna: https://factrail.ai/people/avicenna

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Avicenna
- https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/medieval-manuscripts-medicine-and-pharmacy

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/av-memory-world-2005-access