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Credit: Sales catalogue: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[8] 1489 aD. ARCULANUS, Jouannes (died 1484). Expositio in Avicennae Canonis quarti Fen primam. EDITIO PRINCEPS. Gotbie Letter, double columns of 54 lines. Initial spaces, with guide-letters. Initials painted in red and blue alter- nately, paragraph-marks and marginal flourishes in red —by an early hand. Ferrara, Andreas Gallus, 24 January, 14809. Folio. Fifteenth century binding of wooden boards covered with stamped brown leather (back cover gone). Collation : a**b-d’e’f*g-n*op*q-s*t°u-z* zo 4°A-H*I°K*=272 leaves, the first blank. Hain 1552. Reichling, App. II, p. 118. Not in Proctor. First Edition of an important commentary on Avicenna’s Book 4, Fen. 1, ‘de febribus.’ Arculanus or Herculanus of Verona taught Logic, Philosophy, and Medicine at Bologna (1412-1427), then at Padua until his death (1484). He is memorable as one of the leading pioneers of dentistry and the surgery of the mouth. ‘Nicolaus Pol Doctor. 1494,’ inscribed by Dr. Pol inside front cover. The ownership note of 1632 of the Collegiate Church at Innichen appears on the first printed page. Along the tail edges is the shelf letter I. A large copy; the leaves at beginning and end somewhat stained. Only two copies in U.S.A. (according to Census). IO](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31647339_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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