tia01425000

Text-inc Id:

tia01425000

Bod-inc Id:

A-636A

Headings:

Avicenna Canon medicinae [Latin] (Lib. I–V), et al.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a2r Avicenna: Canon medicinae [preface]. ‘Liber canonis primus quem princeps Aboali Abinsceni de medicina edidit translatus a magistro Gerardo Cremonensi . . .’ The work was translated by Gerardus Cremonensis, as recorded in the heading. Incipit: ‘[I]n primis Deo gratias agamus, sicut sui ordinis celsitudo et beneficii ipsius multitudo meretur . . .’ See A‑636.
3. a2r [Table of contents.]
4. a4v ‘Registrum'.
5. b1r Avicenna: Canon medicinae [book I]. Incipit: ‘[D]ico quod medicina est scientia . . .’
6. n1r [Alphabetical index.]
7. n3v Avicenna: Canon medicinae [book II]. Incipit: ‘[H]orum librorum quos de medicina specificauimus . . .’
8. A1r [Table of contents.]
9. B1r Avicenna: Canon medicinae [book III]. Incipit: ‘[I]nquit Galienus “Intentio in creando caput non est cerebrum . . .”  ‘
10. AA1r Avicenna: Canon medicinae [book IV]. Incipit: ‘[F]ebris est calor extraneus accensus in corde . . .’
11. QQ6r [Table of contents.]
12. RR1r Avicenna: Canon medicinae [book V]. Incipit: ‘[P]ostquam expediti sumus in libris quattuor a relatione . . .’
13. YY1r Avicenna: De viribus cordis. Translated by Arnoldus de Villa Nova, as recorded in the heading. Incipit: ‘[C]reauit Deus ex concauitatibus cordis sinistram vt esset armarium spiritus . . .’ See A‑636.
14. ZZ3r [First colophon.]
15. ZZ3v [Table of contents.]
16. ZZ12r [Second colophon.]

Imprint:

Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 20 July and 21 Nov. 1500. 4°.

Collation:

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References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia01425000 GW 3123; HC *2211; Goff A‑1425; BMC V 524; Pr 5416; BSB‑Ink A‑962; CIBN A‑815; not in Sheppard. LCN: 15712489

Copies:

1. A-636A(1) Copy Wanting the title-page, a1. Bound in three volumes: vol. 1: Canon medicinae, books I and II, and table for book III; vol. 2: book III; vol. 3: books IV and V, and De viribus cordis. Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) parchment. Author and title at the head of the spine of each volume in manuscript in black ink. Size: Vol. 1: 220 × 160 × 29 mm; vol. 2: 221 × 162 × 36 mm; vol. 3: 220 × 165 × 28 mm. Size of leaf: 212 × 157 mm. Some early marginal annotations, commenting on and structuring the text, also ‘nota' marks and extraction of key words. Several loose leaves of bibliographical notes by Lawn. Provenance: Hicks Parker (eighteenth century?); name on the recto of the front endleaf of each volume. Dr Brian Lawn (1905-2001); book-plate; catalogue, p. 28. Bequeathed in 2001. SHELFMARK: Lawn d.5.