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Lot Essay
EDITIO PRINCEPS of Avicenna's highly influential canon of Aristotelian and Islamic medical knowledge. Drawing on earlier work of Galen, Hippocrates and Aristotle, it contains many original contributions in the fields of anatomy, gynaecology, and contagion, among others. The second book of the Canon describes 760 drugs and was the most complete materia medica of its day. The Canon was transmitted to the West in the Latin translation of Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114-1187) and others, and continued to be a standard text until the mid 17th century.
This first edition in Arabic (the first Latin edition appeared at Strassburg c.1473) was printed at the press established in 1590 by Ferdinand de' Medici at the request of Pope Gregory III. The fine Arabic types were designed by Robert Granjon. The press's first publication was the Gospels in Arabic, printed to further missionary work in the Levant. See Adams A-2322; Garrison-Morton 44; NLM/Durling 376; Osler 466; Norman 1951.
This first edition in Arabic (the first Latin edition appeared at Strassburg c.1473) was printed at the press established in 1590 by Ferdinand de' Medici at the request of Pope Gregory III. The fine Arabic types were designed by Robert Granjon. The press's first publication was the Gospels in Arabic, printed to further missionary work in the Levant. See Adams A-2322; Garrison-Morton 44; NLM/Durling 376; Osler 466; Norman 1951.