Sales catalogue: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/74
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 10 | 1490 AD. AVENZOAR, or ABUMERON (died 1162). Rectificatio medicationis et regiminis; “Al Teisir.”” ['Trans- lated by Paravicius. |—Averroés. Colliget. EDITIO PRINCEPS. Gothic Letter, double columns of 70 lines. Initial spaces, with guide-letiers. Initials painted in blue and red alter- nately, paragraph-marks and marginal flourishes in red— by an early hand. Printer’s device at end. (See Reproduc- tion overleaf). Venice, Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 4 January, 1490. Folio. Bound up with No. 11 during the XVth century tn wooden boards covered with stamped brown leather. Collation: [**]; a-f°g*; a-k‘l*=180 leaves. Hain *2186. Pellechet 1652. Proctor 4513. British Museum Cat. Incun., Vol. V, p. 341. Cat. Incun. Coll. of Physicians, Philadelphia, No. 66 (the Coll. of Physicians has, only a fragment). Choulant, p. 375. A large copy of the rare First Edition of Avenzoar’s Al Tezsi7, a medical treatise full of interesting details; followed by Averroes’ meee a system of medicine founded upon the philosophy of ristotle. Avenzoar (1113-1162) was a Spanish physician and surgeon. Probably a Jew, born near Seville, of a renowned medical family, he was called ‘ Te Wzse and Illustrious.’ He experimented on animals, and was probably the first to attempt the total extirpation of the uterus. Recommended goat’s milk in phthisis and noted the harmful effect of emanations from a swampy ground. He described the Acarus scabzet, and advocated that experience should be the sole guide of the physician. ‘Nicolaus Pol Doctor. 1494,’ inscribed by Dr. Pol inside front cover. Shelf letter F painted along the tail edges.
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