Book/Printed Material Commentary on Avicenna's Canon of Medicine, Three Volumes. Expositio super tertio Canonis Avicennae : [1-5]
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Title
- Commentary on Avicenna's Canon of Medicine, Three Volumes.
Other Title
- Expositio super tertio Canonis Avicennae : [1-5]
Summary
- This copy of the commentary by Italian professor and physician Gentilis de Fulgineo (died 1348) on the medical handbook by Abu 'Ali al-Husayn ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Sina (980--1037), commonly known as Avicenna, was printed in Padua, Italy, but illuminated in Germany. Its first owner was Hartmann Schedel (1440--1514). It was included in Schedel's large library of more than 600 works that came into the possession of Johann Jakob Fugger (1516--75) around the middle of the 16th century, before being passed on to the Munich court library in 1571. Schedel himself spent several years in Padua, studying various subjects, including medicine, anatomy, and surgery from 1463 until his graduation as a medical doctor in 1466. After his return to Germany, he practiced as a town physician in Nördlingen from 1470 to 1477, before moving to Amberg and finally returning to Nuremberg in 1482. It was in Nuremberg that Schedel commissioned an unknown book illustrator with the decoration of this printed work. On the title page (folio 2 recto) the two authors, Avicenna and his commentator-their names inscribed by Schedel himself-are depicted wearing magnificent red robes and corresponding hats and seated on a wooden bench beneath a curtained canopy, partially facing each other and engaged in learned discussion. At the bottom of the page, a double coat-of-arms displays Schedel's crest (a moor's head) together with that of his first wife, Anna Heugel (two crossed garden hoes), with whom Schedel was married from 1475 until her death in 1485. A large ornamented initial and a foliate border complete the decoration of the page. As a handwritten note on the back pastedown indicates (v 1/2 lb pro illigatura in singulis), Schedel had the book bound for 5 and one-half pounds in the Nuremberg workshop identified as the Münzer-Meister. The humanist's assiduous use of the book is testified not only by his autograph notes on the flyleaves (folio 178 verso is signed and dated to 1480), but in particular by the numerous glosses he inscribed, mostly in triangular text blocks on the margins of the pages.
Names
- Avicenna, 980-1037 Author.
- Gentilis Fulginas, died 1348 Commentator.
Created / Published
- Padua : Pierre Maufer, 1477-12-01.
Headings
- - Iran, Islamic Republic of
- - 1025
- - Diseases
- - Illuminations
- - Incunabula
- - Medicine
- - Medicine, Medieval
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "BSB shelfmark: 2 Inc.c.a. 622-1,1, 2 Inc.c.a. 622-1,2|This description of the work was written by Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt of the Bavarian State Library."--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 2 volumes ; 29.62 x 43.71 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: Bavarian State Library.
- - Content in Latin.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
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Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021667077
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