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MEDICINE
AVICENNA
Abu-’Ali al Husain Ibn ’Abdallah Ibn-Sina, The Great Arabian Philosopher
and Physician, born at Afshana, died at Hamadan about 1030.
176 Canon de medicina. (Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis.) De
virihus cordis. (Translated by Arnoldus de Villa Nova.) Padova,
(Johannes Herbort), 1479.
Fol. Goth, letter, 2 cols., 63 lines, 434 unn> leaves with sign. Original
monastic chain-binding, finely blind tooled brown calf on wooden boards,
five embossed brass pieces, two clasps, at the head of the under cover an
iron attachment and a ring of the chain. The original upper cover is wanting
and supplied by a thick pasteboard. Frs. 7000.—
Gesamtkatalog 3117- Hain*-Cop. 2202. Proctor 6800. Osler, Incunabula medica,
180. Choulant, Handbuch, p. 363 (with an error of the date: “1497” instead of 1479).
Early, finely printed and extremely scarce edition of the Standard Work
of Early Medicine.
The Canon is the thief work of Avicenna. Osler says on Avicenna and his
work (p. 18): “The Arabian who ruled the professions of Western Europe for five
centuries was Ibn Sina, Avicenna, the prince, philosopher, poet, statesman, and physi-
cian. A Persian of the end of the tenth century who practised in the courts of various
Persian sovereigns, he died about 1030 at Hamadan, of which he had been appointed
vizier. It is not easy to understand upon what was based the extraordinary estimate
of the value of his writings; probably it was, as Neuburger says: ‘the points of form,
of sparkling lucid diction, the exemplary, comprehensive, profound, yet always clear,
arrangement of the logical sequence’. In his Canon, in five books, Graeco-Arabic me-
dicine is presented in concrete form. His medicine was largely that of Galen; he knew
the writings of Aristotle and Plato. Granting the pathological premises, which were ex-
ceedingly simple, and those of humoral pathology, his practice followed as a logical
conclusion ...” The Canon is divided into 5 books. The first and second treats of
physiology, pathology and hygiene, the third and fourth deals with the
methods of treating disease, and the fifth describes the composition and pre-
paration of remedies.
This early edition of the Canon is one of the 6 books which Joh. Herbort de
Seligenstadt had printed at Padua during 5 years (1475—80). From Padua Herbort
went to Venice.
Our copy is in a fine state of preservation, with large margins. Only some
leaves at the end are si. waterstained and damaged at top margin. Note of owner-
ship on 1. 2.
Complete copies, including all 5 books and the register, are extremely
scarce. We have not found a copy in a bookseller’s catalogue during the last years.
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AVICENNA
Abu-’Ali al Husain Ibn ’Abdallah Ibn-Sina, The Great Arabian Philosopher
and Physician, born at Afshana, died at Hamadan about 1030.
176 Canon de medicina. (Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis.) De
virihus cordis. (Translated by Arnoldus de Villa Nova.) Padova,
(Johannes Herbort), 1479.
Fol. Goth, letter, 2 cols., 63 lines, 434 unn> leaves with sign. Original
monastic chain-binding, finely blind tooled brown calf on wooden boards,
five embossed brass pieces, two clasps, at the head of the under cover an
iron attachment and a ring of the chain. The original upper cover is wanting
and supplied by a thick pasteboard. Frs. 7000.—
Gesamtkatalog 3117- Hain*-Cop. 2202. Proctor 6800. Osler, Incunabula medica,
180. Choulant, Handbuch, p. 363 (with an error of the date: “1497” instead of 1479).
Early, finely printed and extremely scarce edition of the Standard Work
of Early Medicine.
The Canon is the thief work of Avicenna. Osler says on Avicenna and his
work (p. 18): “The Arabian who ruled the professions of Western Europe for five
centuries was Ibn Sina, Avicenna, the prince, philosopher, poet, statesman, and physi-
cian. A Persian of the end of the tenth century who practised in the courts of various
Persian sovereigns, he died about 1030 at Hamadan, of which he had been appointed
vizier. It is not easy to understand upon what was based the extraordinary estimate
of the value of his writings; probably it was, as Neuburger says: ‘the points of form,
of sparkling lucid diction, the exemplary, comprehensive, profound, yet always clear,
arrangement of the logical sequence’. In his Canon, in five books, Graeco-Arabic me-
dicine is presented in concrete form. His medicine was largely that of Galen; he knew
the writings of Aristotle and Plato. Granting the pathological premises, which were ex-
ceedingly simple, and those of humoral pathology, his practice followed as a logical
conclusion ...” The Canon is divided into 5 books. The first and second treats of
physiology, pathology and hygiene, the third and fourth deals with the
methods of treating disease, and the fifth describes the composition and pre-
paration of remedies.
This early edition of the Canon is one of the 6 books which Joh. Herbort de
Seligenstadt had printed at Padua during 5 years (1475—80). From Padua Herbort
went to Venice.
Our copy is in a fine state of preservation, with large margins. Only some
leaves at the end are si. waterstained and damaged at top margin. Note of owner-
ship on 1. 2.
Complete copies, including all 5 books and the register, are extremely
scarce. We have not found a copy in a bookseller’s catalogue during the last years.
fTlEndetne eft Iflxllw ©e rfcftw cordlequf prfa
ceDO^uWnaedidif.fr'gmprcfius l^afaug Slnno
Cbrifti opnmi.^cccclxKijc.ocraHo tone nouebrfe.
GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2.