Liber canonis primus quem princeps aboali abinsceni de medicina edidit. tra[n]slatus a magistro Gerardo cremonensi in toleto ab arabico in latinu[m]. Uerba aboali abinsceni
Contributors: Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311, translator; Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187, translator; Locatelli, Boneto, active 1486-1523, printer; Scotto, Ottaviano, -1498, publisher
Publisher: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus
Published: 1490
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Translated from: ara
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Medicine; Early works to 1800; Arab Medicine; Therapeutics; Arabic Medicine
Work titles: Qānūn fī al-ṭibb
Notes: Also contains Avicenna's De viribus cordis (leaves 2g5v-2h4r), translated by Arnaldus de Villanova. Incipit reads: Libellus Auicen[n]e de virib[us] cordis translat[us] ab Arnaldo de villa noua barchinone feliciter i[n]cipit.

Chancery quarto, text printed in 2 columns; 60 lines plus headline; col. width: 63 mm.; area of text: 186 (193) x 134 mm. With initial spaces, guide-letters, and printed paragraph marks; without foliation and catchwords. Register and publisher's device on recto of final leaf.

Colophon reads: Regis aboali hassem filii hali abinsceni liber tot[ius] finitus est vna cum tractatu de viribus cordis translato ab Arnaldo de vilanoua. Impressus [et] diligentissime correctus ma[n]dato et impensis nobilis viri Octauiani Scoti ciuis modoetiensis. Uenetiis. Anno salutis. M.CCCCXC. die. 24. Martij.

Imprint from Goff.

Signatures: a-p⁸ q¹⁰ t-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-N⁸ O-P⁶ Q-Z⁸ 2a-2b⁸ 2c¹⁰ 2d-2g⁸ 2h¹⁰ (a1 blank).

Title from incipit of Book 1.

BM 15th cent., V, p. 438 (IB. 22840)

BN cat. des incun., A-814

GW, 3122

Goff, A-1424

Klebs, 131.11

Walsh, J. E., 15th cent. printed books, 2281

Translated from the Arabic into Latin by Gherardo da Cremona.