AVICENNE. Liber canonis, de medicinis cordialibus, et Cantic - Lot 7

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AVICENNE. Liber canonis, de medicinis cordialibus, et Cantic - Lot 7
AVICENNE. Liber canonis, de medicinis cordialibus, et Cantica. Venice, Juntas [heirs of Lucantonio Giunta], 1555. In-folio of [6] ff. including title, 86 ff. pp. 87-90, ff. 91-590, [1] ff., 1 bl. f.,19 ff. 1 diagram and 6 woodcuts on 2 leaves in the text. Printer's mark on title and colophon. Saddle leather over wood, 5-rib mute spine, boards cold-stamped with religious motifs (evangelists, saints and passion) within a large double scroll (Binding stamped 1565). Rare Venetian edition of the works of the Arab physician AVICENNE (980?-1037) by Paolo ALPAGO. It includes the life of the scholar by Venetian physician Niccolo MASSA, Avicenna's Canon in the Latin version by Gerard de CREMONE, the treatise De medicines cordialibus translated by Arnaud de VILLENEUVE, the Cantica Avicennæ translated by Blaise ERMENGAUD with comments by ALPAGO, De removendis nocumentis and De syrupo acetoso (apple vinegar as a remedy for cholera and stomach pains). Finally, the glossary of Arabic terms by ALPAGO with separate foliotation. The 6 woodcut figures show various osteopathic works. Graesse, Trésor de livres rares et précieux, I, 264. Some dampstaining; the binding is missing a few places, notably the spine, without the clasps.
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