Liber canonis primus quem princeps aboali abinsceni de medicina edidit. translatus a magistro Gerardo cremonensi in toleto ab arabico in latinu[m] Uerba aboali abinsceni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Avicenna, 980-1037.

Contributor:

Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187.

Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311.

Maufer, Petrus, active 1474-1494, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Latin

Language:

Arabic

Latin

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Medicine, Arab.

Therapeutics--Early works to 1800.

Therapeutics.

Medicine, Arabic.

Medical Subjects:

Medicine, Arabic.

Therapeutics.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

500 unnumbered leaves (first leaf blank) ; 24 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Goff title: Canon medicinae

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Petrus Maufer et Socii], [1486]

Language Note:

Translated from the Arabic into Latin by Gherardo da Cremona.

Notes:

Title from incipit of Book 1.

Imprint from colophon of Book 5 (leaf dD8) which reads: Adest [com]plementu[m] libri quinti q[ui] dicit[ur] antidotariu[m] libri toti[us] canonis senis regis aboali hassen filij hali abinsceni cuius [com]plemento totus iste liber finitus est su[m]ma ac dilige[n]tia emendatus. Imp[re]ss[us] venetijs impensis ac ingenio magistri petri maufer gallici [et] socio[rum]. Anno incarnatio[n]is d[omi]ni. M.cccc.lxxxvi. die. x. mensis Junij.

Also contains Avicenna's De viribus cordis (leaves eE1-9) translated by Arnaldus de Villanova. Incipit reads: Libellus Auicenne de virib[us] cordis tra[n]slatus ab Arnaldo de villa noua barchinoe felicit[er] incipit. Colophon on leaf eE9 reads: Impressus Uenetijs Anno incarnationis Dominice. M.cccclxxxvi.

Signatures: a-h⁸ i-k⁶ 2a-2i⁸ 2k⁶ A-Z⁸ AB⁸ 2A-2L⁸ 2M-2N⁶ 2O⁴ aA-dD⁸ eE¹⁰ fF⁸ (a1 blank).

Incipit of each book printed in red.

Median quarto. Area of text: 167 (173) X 117 mm. Text printed in two columns; 58 lines plus headline; col. width: 57 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation and catchwords. Register at end.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 228 x 172 mm.

Without rubrication.

Library's copy imperfect: the incipits of books 1 and 5 have not been printed.

In Library's copy, sheets fF1.8 and fF2.7 appear in two states. In the first, leaf fF8 is blank; in the second, leaf fF8 contains register. The second copy of these four leaves is bound immediately after the blank leaf fF8.

Library's copy has early ms. notes and diagram on front free endpapers, one dated 14 Feb. 1490, and a few early ms. notes and fist in margins.

Binding: modern maroon cloth over boards; brown morocco label on spine with author's name, title and date stamped in gold.

Library's copy has a piece of paper, used as bookmarker, with the ms. inscription "Davendorf" laid in.

Cited in:

BM 15th cent. V, p. 298 (IB. 21308)

BN cat. des incun. A-812

BSB-Ink. A-959

Goff A-1422

GW 3120

Klebs 131.9

Contains:

Avicenna, 980-1037. Adwiyat al-qalbīyah. Latin.

OCLC:

83497854