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(AVENZOAR). COLLE, Giovanni, commentator, De cognitu difficilibus in praxi ex libello Hippocratis de insomniis, et ex libris Avenzoaris per commentaria, & sententias dilucidatas. Venice, Evangelista Deuchinus, 1628. 4to, 2l (bin.) + 1t + 1 + 3 + 4 + 5 epist. + 14 ind. + 123 + 1 Errata + 1t + 1 + 180 + 14 ind. + 1 Errat. + 1 + 2l (bind.), general title printed in red and black, separate title for the Avenzoar section in black only, both with woodcut printer's device, numerous woodcut initials; a very good copy in contemporary limp vellum, ownership inscription on front-fly-leaf recording the purchase of the book in Rome, 1630. First edition of this commentary (with the text) of Hippocrates' work on insomnia, and on selected passages from the al-Taysir of Abu Marwan ibn Zuhr. Abu Marwan's text is presented in the form of 125 "sentences," adapted from the larger work, followed by commentary. The index of diseases is divided into ailments of the head, throat, stomach, uterus, skin, and also fevers. Giovanni Colle's main claim to fame is to have published the first definite description of a blood transfusion in Methodus facile parandi incunda tuta et nova medicamenta, Venice, 1628 (Garrison-Morton 2011). Colle was professor of medicine in the university of Padua. Bruni Celli 770; Krivatsy 2581; apart from the National Library of Medicine copy (Krivatsy) none is located in NUC., Main Heritage Shelves General, RC548 .C65 1628, Book, Item-ID: i1007739x, BIB-ID: 1009375 |
