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Avicenne liber canonis medicinae. Cum castigationibus Andree Bellunensis.

Publication Details

Venice: Luc-Antonio Giunta, 1527 CE.

Revised and improved text of the Canon and other works of Avicenna by Andrea Alpago of Belluno, who had acquired a deep understanding of both the language and the subject during his thirty years of service as physician to the Venetian embassy at Damascus. Alpago supplied emendations derived from Arabic manuscripts to the earlier Latin editions of the Canon, the Cantica, and De viribus cordis (which he more accurately entitled De medicamentis cordialibus), and compiled a new glossary, mainly of Arabic names of drugs. His corrections were first published posthumously by his nephew Paolo in the Giunta edition of 1527. Digital facsimile of the 1544 Giunta edition edited by Alpago from Google Books at this link.

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Entry Number#7202
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/9369
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLavicenne-liber-canonis-medicinae-cum-castigationibus-andree-bellunensis

Geographic Context

Publication place: Venice

Mentioned in annotation: Damascus