tia01428000

Text-inc Id:

tia01428000

Bod-inc Id:

A-637

Headings:

Avicenna Canon medicinae (Lib. I; III, Fen 1-22; IV, Fen 1).

Analysis of content:

1. a1v Lascaris, Janus: [Letter, incorporating a paraphrase of the Royal privilege, to] Jacobus Ponceau. ‘Operis huius magistri Jacobi de partibus in Auicennam nuncupatio ac priuilegii ne alibi imprimatur aut aliunde aduehatur manifestatio.’ Incipit: ‘Vetus sane Romanorum institutum fuit, vt qui ciuem hostibus circumuentum ab exitio defendisset . . .’ On the privilege see Elizabeth Armstrong, Before Copyright. The French Book-privilege System 1498-1526 (Cambridge, 1990), 140 and 209.
2. a2r Avicenna: Canon medicinae [preface]. ‘Liber canonis primus Auicenne principis Abohaly de medicina.’ Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis. Incipit: ‘[I]n primis Deo gratias agemus, sicut sui ordinis celsitudo et beneficii ipsius multitudo meretur . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 705.
3. a2r Jacobus de Partibus: [Commentary.] ‘Explanatio.’ Incipit: ‘Titulus operis . . . Atteude(!) quod canon arabice Latine dicitur norma . . .’
4. a3r ‘Tabula.’
5. a5r Avicenna: Canon medicinae, book I.
6. a5r Jacobus de Partibus: [Commentary.]
7. eee5v [First colophon.]
8. [*2r] ‘Tabula.’
9. [*2v] ‘Carmen in tertium canonis Auicenne principis.’ Incipit: ‘Sancta sedes anime caput est ratione fruentis | Particulas cuius docet hec fen et vtilitates'; 4 hexameters.
10. A1r Avicenna: Canon medicinae, book III, fen 1-12. Tables of contents preceding each fen.
11. A1r Jacobus de Partibus: [Commentary.]
12. Aa1v ‘Tabula.’
13. Aa2r Avicenna: Canon medicinae, book III, fen 13-22. Tables of contents preceding each fen.
14. Aa2r Jacobus de Partibus: [Commentary.]
15. Yyy5v Jacobus de Partibus: [Note by the commentator.] Incipit: ‘Ego, Jacobus Despars de Tornaco natus, magister in medicina Parisius, exposui ad longum totum primum librum Canonis Auicenne . . .’
16. aaaa1v ‘Tabula.’
17. aaaa1v ‘Carmen in fen sequentem.’ Incipit: ‘Charior hac tibi sit fen nulla magisque legenda | Que plus dimidio tribuit praxis medicine'; 4 hexameters.
18. aaaa2r Avicenna: Canon medicinae, book IV, fen 1.
19. aaaa2r Jacobus de Partibus: [Commentary.]
20. zzzz7r [Note by the printer.]
21. zzzz7r [Second colophon.]

Imprint:

Lyons: Johannes Trechsel, completed by Johannes Clein, 24 Dec. 1498. Folio.

Collation:

a–z [et] [con] [rum] aa–zz [et][et] [con][con] [rum][rum] aaa-ccc⁸ ddd eee⁶ [*²] A–S⁸ T⁶ U–Z AA–ZZ⁸ AAA BBB⁶ Aa–Zz Aaa–Xxx⁸ Yyy⁶ aaaa⁸ bbbb-yyyy⁶ zzzz⁸. Aa₂ is signed Aa. One woodcut diagram in volume 2.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia01428000 GW 3127; H *2214; Goff A‑1428; BMC VIII 302; Pr 8616; BSB‑Ink A‑964; CIBN A‑816; Hillard 248; Rhodes 241; Sack, Freiburg, 417; Sheppard 6678. LCN: 13955752

Copies:

1. A-637(1) Copy Bound in four volumes. Two leaves with a table of contents of the Canon medicinae bound in as endleaves in vol. 1. Wanting the blank leaves eee6 and zzzz8 and leaves C3 and T2. Binding: All volumes are bound uniformly in seventeenth-century(?) English (Oxford) blind-tooled calf; two leather straps lost; staple-marks of a hasp at head of the upper covers. Size: Vol.1: 403 × 300 × 110 mm; vol. 2: 402 × 290 × 85 mm; vol. 3: 400 × 298 × 83 mm; vol. 4: 398 × 285 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 386–92 × 268–76 mm. Leaves from a missal printed on parchment used as reinforcing pieces in all volumes. Early marginal notes. In vol. 3 loose leaves with manuscript notes interleaved. Provenance: Jérôme de Monteux (fl. 1523); ‘Hieronimus de montuis astuis me possidet 15^a Augusti 1523' on a1r of vol. 1; similar inscriptions on [*1r] of vol. 2, on Aa1r of vol. 3 and on aaaa1r of vol. 4. Acquired by 1602/3; see James, ‘Catalogus' (1602), fol. 167^r; James, Catalogus (1605), 181. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 1.5-8.