Bod-Inc: A-635

Avicenna

Canon medicinae (Lib. I–V), et al.

 

Analysis of Content

a2r Avicenna: Canon medicinae [preface]. ‘Liber canonis primus quem princeps Aboali Abinsceni de medicina edidit.’ Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis. [Edited by Petrus Rochabonella. Corrected by Prosdocimus Mutius, as acknowledged in the last colophon.] Incipit: ‘[I]n primis Deo gratias agamus, sicut sui ordinis celsitudo et beneficii ipsius multitudo meretur . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 705 and G. C. Anawati, ‘Science', The Cambridge History of Islam, ed. P. M. Holt, A. K. S. Lambton, and B. Lewis, II (Cambridge, 1970), 772-3.

p8r [First colophon.]

p8r [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Simplicium liber hic dictus de more secundus | Est hispalensis principis Aboali'; 2 elegiac distichs.

Imprint

Imprint: Padua: Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt, 1476. Folio.

Remarks: In five parts, dated: (I) 28 Sept. 1476; (II) 12 Dec. 1476; (III) 28 Nov. 1476; (IV and V) 9 Nov. 1476.

Collation

Collation: Part I‑II: a b¹⁰ c⁸ d e¹⁰ f–h⁸ [*²] i k¹⁰ l m mn n–p⁸; part III: ²[a⁴ b²] A B¹⁰ C⁸ D E¹⁰ F⁸ G¹⁰ H I⁸ II⁶ K¹⁰ L⁸ M N¹⁰ O–T^8.10 U X⁶; part IV‑V: [*⁴] aa⁸ bb cc¹⁰ dd⁸ ee¹⁰ ff–ii⁸ kk ll⁶ mm¹⁰ nn⁸ oo⁶ pp⁸; ³a¹² [*²].

References

ISTC: ia01418000

GW: GW 3116;

Hain: HC 2201;

Goff: Goff A‑1418;

Proctor: not in Pr;

Others: BSB‑Ink A‑957; CIBN A‑808; Osler, IM 112; Rhodes 238; Sheppard 5586.

LCN: 14803273

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