Medicine – One of the most important works of the middle ages – Avicenna (Abu ‚Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdalla ibn Sina). – Liber canonis totius medicine…a Gerardo Cremone(n)si ab arabica lingua in latina(m) reductus.

The Canon of Medicine is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books compiled by Persian physician-philosopher Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and completed in 1025. Perhaps one of the most famous and influential early books, that continued to influence later creations. It presents an overview of the contemporary medical knowledge of the Islamic world, which had been influenced by earlier traditions including Greco-Roman medicine, particularly Galen, Persian medicine, Chinese medicine and Indian medicine. The Canon of Medicine remaind a medical authority for centuries. It set the standards for medicine in Mediaval Europe and the Islamic world and was used as a standard medical textbook through the 18th century in Europe. It is an important text in Unani medicine, a form of traditional medicine practiced in India. – Title printed in red an black within an elaborate woodcut architectural frame with portraits of Hippocrates, Galen and Avicena as mediaval doctors. – Title-page with two small wholes missing some parts of illustration, on the reverse side missing a few letters. Parts of the leaves with contemporary annotations, also partly some underlinings, last two leaves of index with small whole missing a few letters; missing page 451. – „Avicenna’s Canon is the most famous medical textbook ever written and it has remained as a medical bible for a longer period than any other work“ (Osler, 1922). This copy is compared with the digitalized copy at the Bayrische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. The leaves 395 and 396 are missbound, they are bound in after leaf 404, leaf 451 is missing and is added in copy from the copy of the Bayrische Staatsbibliothek. This copy has many contemporary annotations, from one hand, many depicting medical recipies, which makes this copy interesting for reasearch. More extensive description upon request.