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AVICENNA (980-1037). Liber canonis. De medicinis cordialibus. Venice: Giunti, 1562.
2 volumes, 2° (355 x 240mm). Woodcut device on title, colophon and index, 6 woodcut illustrations. (title re-cornered, some worming and dampstaining throughout, light soiling to a few leaves, a few short marginal tears, several leaves with adhesion, pencil marks to colophon.) Later vellum preserving much of the contemporary vellums sides (some dampstaining).
Avicenna was an Arabian physician and philosopher who 'had perhaps a wider influence in the eastern and western hemispheres than any other Islamic thinker' (PMM). Liber canonis, his voluminous medical encyclopaedia, presents a comprehensive account of Muslim medical knowledge of his time, tracing its origins to the teachings of Hippocrates, Galen and Aristotle. NLM/Durling 387; cf. Norman 1590; PMM 11.
2 volumes, 2° (355 x 240mm). Woodcut device on title, colophon and index, 6 woodcut illustrations. (title re-cornered, some worming and dampstaining throughout, light soiling to a few leaves, a few short marginal tears, several leaves with adhesion, pencil marks to colophon.) Later vellum preserving much of the contemporary vellums sides (some dampstaining).
Avicenna was an Arabian physician and philosopher who 'had perhaps a wider influence in the eastern and western hemispheres than any other Islamic thinker' (PMM). Liber canonis, his voluminous medical encyclopaedia, presents a comprehensive account of Muslim medical knowledge of his time, tracing its origins to the teachings of Hippocrates, Galen and Aristotle. NLM/Durling 387; cf. Norman 1590; PMM 11.
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