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[ARABIC MEDICAL COMPENDIUM] Avicenna et al Manuscript on paper Venice or Naples 1425
TEXTS: AVERROES/AVICENNA/Armengaud Blaise, ed. & tr. Commentary on Avicenna’s ‘Cantica’ (Urjûza fi’ t-tibb) fols. 1-112.AVICENNA/Arnaud de Villanova, ed. & tr. De viribus cordis (Kitâb al-adwîya al-qalbîya) fols. 112-128.MONDINO DEI LUZZI. Anatomia 128-150v. [And:] MISCELLANY. 150v-151v.
Extremely interesting early 15th-century medical manuscript, uniting the medical traditions of two cultures, Arab and Western, as well as two distinct medieval traditions of medical study: Avicenna’s Cantica—here accompanied by Averroes’ extensive commentary—attempts to summarize the whole of medical knowledge into 1300 rhyming couplets. The second text by Avicenna treats cardiac medicine. These two texts are both theoretical treatises, and originate from the late 13th-century Barcelona-Montpellier axis of medical learning; the first was translated from Arabic by the Montepellier master Armengaud Blaise; the second by his famous uncle, Arnaud de Villanova. The third text, Mondino de Luzzi’s Anatomia, from Bologna, represents the earliest empirical tradition of anatomical instruction during the medieval period—it was written to accompany a dissection.
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