Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)

The Tetragrammaton and orders of heaven surmounting portraits of famous medical philosophers (Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna etc.) and John Woodall. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.

An introduction to Islamic cosmological doctrines : conceptions of nature and methods used for its study by the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā', al-Bīrūni, and Ibn Sīnā / Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

Meditsina epokhi Avitsenny / Iu. Nuraliev.

Bibliographie d'Ibn Sina / [Yahya Mahdavi].

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) : d. fürstl. Meister aus Buchara / Burchard Brentjes, Sonja Brentjes ; [herausgegeben von D. Goetz and others].

Nukat fī aḥwāl al-Shaykh al-Raʼīs Ibn Sīnā / li-Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad al-Kāshī ; taḥqīq Aḥmad Fuʼād al-Ahwānī.

Primus [et secundus] Avicennae Canonis ... una cum lucidissima Gentilis Fulginatis expositione ... / Additis annotationibus omnium auctoritatum et priscorum et recentiorum auctorum ... Nuper ... correctus ... emendatus.

Dynus super quarta primi. Dyni Florentini super quarta fen primi Avicennae praeclarissima commentaria. [Expositio super canones universales] / [Dinus].

Super quarta Fen primi Canonis Avicennae expositio / cum annotationibus Jacobi de Partibus noviter ... correcta.

Libri canonis, necnon de medicinis cordialibus et cantica ab Andrea Bellunensi ... / correcti ... una cum interpretatione nominum arabicorum.

[The Canon ... a system of medicine, to which is added his compendium of Aristotelian philosophy, entitled al-Najāt, an abridgement of his larger work al-Shifā.] [Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (romanized form)] / [Avicenna].

Liber canonis, de medicinis cordialibus, et cantica / jam olim quidem a Gerardo Carmonensi ex arabico sermone in latinum conversa. Postea vero ab Andrea Alpago Bellunensi ... infinitis pene correctionibus ad veterum exemplarium Arabicorum fidem in margine factis, locupletissimoque nominum Arabicorum ab ipso interpretatorum indice decorata. Nunc autem demum a Benedicto Rinio ... lucubrationibus illustrata ... His accesserunt Avicennae libellus de removendis nocumentis, quae accedunt in regimine sanitatis: ejusdem tractatus de syrupo acetoso. Ab eodem Alpago ex Arabico in Latinum sermonem translati.

Prognosticacion drawen out of the bookes of Ipocras, Auicen, and other notable auctours of physycke, shewynge the daunger of dyuers syckenesses, that is to say, whether peryll of deth be in them or not, the pleasure of almyghtye God reserued.

al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb / ta'līf al-Shaykh al-Ra'īs Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Sīnā.

Online resource (5 volumes : title page in red & black with woodcut border , (fol.)).

Praesens maximus codex est totius scientie medicine principis Aboali Abinsene cum expositionibus omnium principalium et illustrium interpretum ejus ... : Expositores ... Gentilis de Fuliginio, Averrois Cordubensis, Jacobus de Partibus, Matheus de Gradi, Dinus Florentinus, Thadeus Florentinus, Ugo Senensis, Gentilis Florentinus.  Ejusdem codicis divisio commodissime facta est in quinque volumina.

Online resource (164 unnumbered leaves, (folio)).

Expositio super tertia, quarta et parte quintae Fen IV libri Avicennae cum textu, etc.

vii, 612 pages, 3 plates (1 colour) : colour frontispiece, illustrations, folded tables, diagrams ; 25 cm

A treatise on the Canon of medicine of Avicenna : incorporating a translation of the first book / by O. Cameron Gruner.

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Prognosticacion drawen out of the bookes of Ipocras, Auicen, and other notable auctours of physycke, shewynge the daunger of dyuers syckenesses, that is to say, whether peryll of deth be in them or not, the pleasure of almyghtye God reserued.

al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb / ta'līf al-Shaykh al-Ra'īs Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Sīnā.

Expositio super tertia, quarta et parte quintae Fen IV libri Avicennae cum textu, etc.

A treatise on the Canon of medicine of Avicenna : incorporating a translation of the first book / by O. Cameron Gruner.

An introduction to Islamic cosmological doctrines : conceptions of nature and methods used for its study by the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā', al-Bīrūni, and Ibn Sīnā / Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

Meditsina epokhi Avitsenny / Iu. Nuraliev.

Bibliographie d'Ibn Sina / [Yahya Mahdavi].

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) : d. fürstl. Meister aus Buchara / Burchard Brentjes, Sonja Brentjes ; [herausgegeben von D. Goetz and others].

Nukat fī aḥwāl al-Shaykh al-Raʼīs Ibn Sīnā / li-Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad al-Kāshī ; taḥqīq Aḥmad Fuʼād al-Ahwānī.

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Prognosticacion drawen out of the bookes of Ipocras, Auicen, and other notable auctours of physycke, shewynge the daunger of dyuers syckenesses, that is to say, whether peryll of deth be in them or not, the pleasure of almyghtye God reserued.

al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb / ta'līf al-Shaykh al-Ra'īs Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Sīnā.

Expositio super tertia, quarta et parte quintae Fen IV libri Avicennae cum textu, etc.

A treatise on the Canon of medicine of Avicenna : incorporating a translation of the first book / by O. Cameron Gruner.

An introduction to Islamic cosmological doctrines : conceptions of nature and methods used for its study by the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā', al-Bīrūni, and Ibn Sīnā / Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

Meditsina epokhi Avitsenny / Iu. Nuraliev.

Bibliographie d'Ibn Sina / [Yahya Mahdavi].

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) : d. fürstl. Meister aus Buchara / Burchard Brentjes, Sonja Brentjes ; [herausgegeben von D. Goetz and others].

Nukat fī aḥwāl al-Shaykh al-Raʼīs Ibn Sīnā / li-Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad al-Kāshī ; taḥqīq Aḥmad Fuʼād al-Ahwānī.

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