tia01419000

Text-inc Id:

tia01419000

Bod-inc Id:

A-636

Headings:

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

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Avicenna: Canon medicinae [preface]. ‘Liber canonis primus quem princeps Aboali Abinsceni de medicina edidit.’ Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis. Incipit: ‘[I]n primis Deo gratias agamus, sicut sui ordinis celsitudo et beneficii ipsius multitudo meretur . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 705.
2. a2r [Table of contents.]
3. a4r Avicenna: Canon medicinae [book I]. Incipit: ‘[D]ico quod medicina est scientia . . .’
4. g6r [First colophon.]
5. g7r [Alphabetical index.]
6. [*1r] Avicenna: Canon medicinae [book II]. ‘Liber canonis secundus Auicenne verba principis Aboali.’ [Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis.] Incipit: ‘[H]orum librorum quos de medicina specificauimus . . .’
7. p6v [Second colophon.]
8. H2r [Table of contents.]
9. A1r Avicenna: Canon medicinae [book III]. [Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis.] Incipit: ‘[I]nquit Galienus “Intentio in creando caput non est cerebrum . . .”  ‘’
10. R10r [Third colophon.]
11. [*1v] [Table of contents.]
12. aa1r Avicenna: Canon medicinae [book IV]. [Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis.] Incipit: ‘[F]ebris est calor extraneus accensus in corde . . .’
13. kk1r Avicenna: Canon medicinae [book V]. [Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis.] Incipit: ‘[P]ostquam expediti sumus in libris quattuor a relatione . . .’
14. nn1r Avicenna: De viribus cordis. Translated by Arnoldus de Villa Nova. Incipit: ‘[C]reauit Deus ex concauitatibus cordis sinistram vt esset armarium spiritus . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 273. Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz, Index scriptorum Latinorum medii aevi Hispanorum (Madrid, 1959), 328-9 no. 1608, and Juan A. Paniagua, Estudios y notas sobre Arnau de Vilanova (Madrid, 1963), 18. Dated 6 Nov. 1479. See Wickersheimer I 45-99, Juan A. Paniagua, Estudios y notas sobre Arnau de Vilanova (Madrid, 1963), and Michael McVaugh, ‘Arnald of Villanova', DSB I 289-91.
15. oo2r [Fourth colophon.]
16. oo2v [Alphabetical index.]

Imprint:

Padua: [Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt], 1479. Folio. In five parts, dated: (I) 19 Aug. 1479; (II) 27 Aug. 1479; (III) 27 Oct. 1479; (IV and V) [undated].

Collation:

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References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia01419000 GW 3117; HC *2202; Goff A‑1419; BMC VII 917; Pr 6800; BSB‑Ink A‑958; CIBN A‑809; Osler, IM, 180; Sack, Freiburg, 413; Sheppard 5588. LCN: 13955793

Copies:

1. A-636(1) Copy On g7r an impression of bearer type; see GW Anm. Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled leather over wooden boards, corner-pieces and two clasps lost; very worn and rebacked. On both covers triple fillets form a double frame; the inner rectangle is divided by triple fillets into lozenge-shaped compartments. In the compartments there are three different rosette stamps. Size: 440 × 293 × 135 mm. Size of leaf: 429 × 284 mm. Major initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue with reserved white decoration and occassional pen-flourishing; other initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; red capital strokes. Provenance: Fiecht, Tyrol, Benedictines, S. Josephus (formerly St Georgenberg); inscription ‘Ad Bibliothecam Monasterij Montis S. Georgii 1659' on a3r. Purchased for £1. 16. 0; see Books Purchased (1851), 5. SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 1.13.