Liber canonis p[ri]m[us] que[m] p[ri]nceps abohali abiusceni de medicina edidit.

Accession number: 
PML 23171
Author: 
Avicenna, 980-1037.
Published: 
[Strasbourg] : [The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch)], [after February 1473]
Description: 
[93, 84, 237, 124, 40] leaves ; 37 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1925.
Notes: 

Title from caption, part I, leaf [1]/2r: Liber canonis p[ri]m[us] que[m] p[ri]nceps abohali abiusceni de medicina edidit. translatus a magistro gerhardo cremonensi i[n] toleto ab arabico in latinum. Verba abohali abiusceni.
Imprint from ISTC.
Dated by CIBN. GW and Goff date before 1473, but this edition probably follows the Milan, Lavagnia edition of 12 Feb. 1473 (GW 3115).
Collation, part I: [1-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9¹⁰ 10⁴(1+1: resoluantur)]: 93 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank; part II: [1-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9⁶]: 84 leaves; part III: [1⁶; 2¹² 3-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9⁶(1+1: aut super ignem); 10-16¹⁰ 17⁶; 18-24¹⁰ 25⁸]: 237 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [2]/1 blank; part IV: [1⁴; 2-13¹⁰]: 124 leaves, leaf [13]/10 blank; part V: [1-4¹⁰]: 40 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 35.5 x 27.5 cm.

Binding: 
20th-century (Austrian?) stiff parchment binding (37 x 28 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Liber canonis primus quem princeps abohali abiusceni de medicina edidit.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication largely unrealized, a few initials sporadically throughout added in the 16th/17th century. Annotations: Some marginal notations in a 16th/17th-century Germanic hand sporadically throughout, primarily in part I, quires [1-3].

Provenance: 
Johann Niessel and Servatius Niessel (active 1560s-1590s), priest in parish of St. Wolfgang near Mondsee (Austria), inscription: "Totum hoc opus quod inscribitur Avicennae medico praeclaro suae aetatis, distinctum est in libros V ut t[??]inopre vel ex sequiriti indice. Possessorem vero agit iam haereditarium Servatium Niessl proximum post Ioannem Niessl suo pio parente Cano[??] in Ma[?] See qui vita optunctus. Anno a Redemptione mundi." (part I, leaf [1]/1r); (Austrian?) Bundesdenkmalamt, stamps (front pastedown); unidentified Gilhofer & Ranschburg catalogue description (rear endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Dec. 1925.
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