Shelfmark
Ga.1.01 - Ga.1.05
Author
Uniform title
[Qanun fi al-tibb.]
Title
Hic merito inscribi pote[ns] vite liber corp[or]alis Albohali abysceni canonis libros q[ui]nq[ue] duplici fere p[er] totus co[m]mento munitos nuperq[ue] tra[n]slatos: De viribus cordis. Ac cantica[m] eiusde[m] expositam. Aliaue q[uam]plura diligenti patefacie[n]da lectori luculentissime apprehendit./ Doctores circa textus positi vt locis suis apparebit hi sunt vs. Gentilis de fulgineo. Iacobus de partibus. Ugo senensis. Dinus florentinus. Mattheus de gradi. Thadeusq[ue] florentinus.
Varying form of title
Parallel title: Canon of medicine.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Venetijs : per Bernardinum Benalium., [1503].
Physical description
5 v. ; 44 cm. (Fo.)
Note
Imprint details taken from colophon of vol. 2. Imprint dates taken from vol. 2, leaf Lll8v: 'Impressum Venetijs per Bernardinum Benalium. 1503. die. iiij. nouembris.'.
Note
Edited by Hieronymus Surianus, as per statement in vol. 5, leaf LLLL4v.
Note
Register at the end of each volume.
Note
Text in two columns, with commentary surrounding main text in centre.
Citation/references note
Edit16, CNCE 3534
Citation/references note
Hain, 2199
Provenance
Inscription on title-page of vol. 1: Ex dono Andreae Windesor di Stoake armigerj: 1600. Andrew Windsor is recorded as having given £10 towards the purchase of books in the Eton College audit book for 1599-1600. Birley suggests he was the Andrew Windsor who was lord of the manor of Eton and of Booniardens near Stoke Poges. See Birley, History of Eton College Library, p. 20.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on verso of t.p. of each volume.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington on the verso of t.p. of each volume and subsequently pasted over - presumably added in error.
Binding
16th century English mid-brown calf; blind tooled frames of triple fillet, ?griffin roll; flowers in lozenges roll; central panel of blind tooled of flies and flowers (not known to Oldham); gold tooled Eton College stamp superimposed as centrepiece; traces of clasps and chain; lime wood boards; blind tooled single fillet on spine, with hatched compartments at head and tail; faintly sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Some annotations in red ink.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Ga.1.2-6; Dp.1.3-7.
Subject
Avicenna, 980 - 1037 Qanun fi al-tibb.
Subject
Medicine, Arab Early works to 1800.
Subject
Medicine, medieval Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Surianus, Hieronymus, ? - 1522 editor.
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Dinus de Garbo,
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Added entry--place
Italy Venice
Language code
lat ara
Identifier
B46118