Liber Avicenna
Publisher: Simon Bevilaqua
Published: 1500
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 632
Subjects: Arab Medicine; Medieval Medicine; Arabic Medicine
Other titles: De viribus cordis.
Work titles: Qānūn fī al-ṭibb
Notes: Canon contains a treatise on medicine in five books: I, II on physiology, pathology and hygiene; III, IV on treatment of disease; V on preparation of medicine. De viribus cordis contains a description of passions and disorders of the blood, and their treatments.

Canon translated by Gerardus Cremonensis; De viribus cordis translated by Arnaldus de Villa Nova.

Hain, 2211

Klebs, 131.14

GW, 3123

BM 15th cent., V, p. 524

Proctor, 5416

Goff, A-1425

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2542-2543

MS signature on front flyleaves, "Dr. Delhoume"; illegible bookstamp inside front covers.

Bound in two volumes, the first containing books 1, 2, and 4, the second, 3 and 5. Initials and paragraph marks added in red or blue. 16th-century blind-stamped leather over paste-paper boards.