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Credit: Sales catalogue: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 18 | 1492 AD. HALY ABBAS (died 994). Liber medicinae dictus regalis. [Translated into Latin by Stephanus. Edited by Antonius Vitalis. ] EDITIO PRINCEPS. GotBice Letter, double columns of 79 lines. Initial spaces, with guide-letters. Large coloured initial with pen-orna- mentations at the beginning of each book, small initials in red or blue, paragraph-marks and marginal flourishes in red —by an early hand. Printer’s device, white on black ground, on the final page. (See Reproduction on opposite page). Venice, Bernardinus Ricius, Novariensis, for Johannes de Nigro, 25 September, 1492. Large folio. Unbound in buckram case. Collation: [**]; a-y*z°z°=192 leaves, leaf 5 blank. Hain *8350. Proctor 4964. British Museum Cat. Incun., Vol. V, p. 403. Cat. Incun. Coll. of Physicians, Philadelphia, No. 169. A fine, large copy of the rare first, and only fifteenth century, edition of this canonical treatise on medicine. The author, Haly ben Abbas, a Persian physician, died in 994. His book, entitled El-Maltki:, the Royal Book, is divided into two _ parts. The first ten chapters treat of the theory, and the second ten of the practice of medicine. He deals especially well with the subject of dietetics. It was the standard text-book until it was superseded by the Canon](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31647339_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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