Libellus Arabicus in malos medicos
Contributors: Elisio, Giovanni Battista, active 1500
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 34, item 6
Published: 1500
Place of publication: Italy
Language: lat
Notes: Goff B-1017 [Italy: after 1500?]; Schullian 121 [as Goff]; Ballard 222 [Venice: Johannes et Gregorius de Gregoriis? about 1500?]; British Museum. Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy ... from 1465 to 1600. London, 1958 p. 119 [J. Beplin: Rome, 1510?]

Cf. G. Meersseman O.P. La chronologie des voyages et des oeuvres de frère Alphonse Buenhombre O.P. In Archivum fratrum praedicatorum. v. 10 (1940) p. 94-95 & 106-108 ("appendice F"), who shows that the claim made by the editor Joannes Elisius of Naples to have translated the work himself from the Arabic in 1500 is a fraudulent one: the work was originally translated by the Spanish Dominican Alfonsus Bonihominis (Buenhombre) in 1342 and Joannes Elisius has merely repolished the earlier translator's Latinity.

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