Adiecto nuper secundo, quod nunquàm anteà fuerat typis excusum; de membris capite Monte, Giovanni Battista da 1498-1551 Durastante, Giano Matteo active 16th century Valgrisi, Vincenzo active 1540-1572 printer. Costantini, Baldassare active 16th century printer. text text it Venetiis In aedibus Vincentij Valgrisij, et Balthassaris Constantini 1557 monographic lat

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No Known Copyright Iano Matthaeo Durastante, medico, ac philosopho; Sanctoiustano; oculatissimo, ac diligentissimo; censore. (AVICENNA). MONTE, Giovanni Battista da, commentator. In primi lib. canonis primam fen, profundissima commentaria. Adiecto ... de membris capite. Iano Matthaeo Durastante ... censore. Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi and Balthassar Constantini, 1557. Small 8vo, 2l + 1t + 1 + 9 (preface) + 21 (index) + 651 + 1 + 2l, with printer's device on title, repeated at colophon, three attractive woodcut intials at the beginning; some contemporary marginalia and underlining; a fine copy of contemporary limp vellum; inner hinge broken. Second edition (first 1554) of Da Monte's commentaries on Booke one, fen 1, of the Cannon of Avicenna, edited by Gian Matteo Durastante with the addition of De membris (mentioned on the title), De facultatibus and De virtutibus naturalibus ministrantibus (not mentioned on the title). These additions in fact complete the first fen, the whole comprising the philosophical foundation of Avicenna's entire system of medicine. Da Monte was professor of medicine at the university of Padua, where in 1465 a statue was passed mandating the teaching of the whole of Book I of the Canon. During 3273 (imperfect); NUC records four other locations, New York Academy of Medicine, Cornell, and two at Yale; the earliest edition in the Wellcome Library is 1558; this edition not in the British Library. May have been issued with the editions of Monte's commentaries on other parts of the Canon published in Venice under the same imprint between 1556 and 1557. The newly added chapter De membris (p. 553-605) is followed by 2 others: De facultatibus and De virtutibus naturalibus ministrantibus. Corrected and enlarged edition of the work previously edited by W. Lublin and published in Venice in 1554. Printer's device with inscription "Vincent" on t.p. and repeated on leaf 2S6v. Signatures: *-2*⁸ A-2S⁸ (2S7-8 blank). Includes index. Woodcut initials. Main Heritage Shelves General R128.3 .M66 1557 Book Item-ID: i10106674 BIB-ID: 1012303 Avicenna 980-1037 Kitāb 1 Commentaries Early works to 1800 Medicine, Arab Italy Venice R128.3 .M66 1557 M1681 52066250 aacr EQO 010925 20120410063325.0 ocm52066250 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.5 using MARC21slim2MODS3-5.xsl (Revision 1.111 2016/3/24)