Details
AVENZOHAR (1094-1160). Liber Teisir, sive Rectificatio medicationis et regiminis. -Antidotarium. -- AVERROES (1126-1198). Colliget, Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 4 January 1490/91, 2° (297 x 204mm), 107 leaves (of 108, title supplied in facsimile), double column, gothic type, printer's device, 3-7-line initial spaces with guide-letters (occasional light marginal spotting), contemporary marginal annotations in a humanist hand, modern vellum. [H 2186; GW 3103; BMC V, 341; Goff A-1408; Stillwell, Awakening 284]
FIRST EDITION of the Liber Teisir; the Colliget, a medical encyclopedia by the great natural philosopher Averroes, had been printed in 1482. Avenzohar's practical medical handbook had been translated from the Arabic into Hebrew by Jacobus Hebraeus, and from Hebrew into Latin by Patavinus as early as 1281.
FIRST EDITION of the Liber Teisir; the Colliget, a medical encyclopedia by the great natural philosopher Averroes, had been printed in 1482. Avenzohar's practical medical handbook had been translated from the Arabic into Hebrew by Jacobus Hebraeus, and from Hebrew into Latin by Patavinus as early as 1281.
Provenance
Kremsmünster, Benedictine abbey (17th-century inscription).