Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā approximately 865-approximately 925 Locatelli, Boneto active 1486-1523 Scoto. Ottaviano (heirs of) text text it Venetiis] [Octavianus Scottus] 1529 monographic lat ara

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No Known Copyright en tibi liber quem in medicina edidit Abuchare filius Zacharie Rasis ... : hunc Helchauy, hoc est Continentem appellauit: quia omnem fere medicinalem artem contineret. In eo enim quecunque a priscis illis, tam Grecis quam Arabibus auctoribus annotatu digna in medicina sunt sparsim conscripta collecta congestaque in vnum comperies ... habebis nunc emendatissimum ... RHAZES. Continens ... en tibi liber quem in medicina edidit Abuchare filius Zacharie Rasis ... Hunc Helchauy, hoc est continentem appellavit ... [Venice, heirs of Ottaviano Scoto], 1529. Folio, 1 l(b.) + 1t + 1 + 14(cont.) + 508 + 1 l(b.), title printed in red and black, with large woodcut of an oriental scholar at his reading desk, within a magnificent woodcut border, at the top Aesculapius (Greek god of medicine) surrounded by putti n a frieze, the architrave supported by two pairs of double columns, at the foot a row of half-length portraits of Mesue, Avicenna, Hippocrates, Galen and Rhazes; printed in double columns, two elaborate woodcut initials on first page; old vellum with new endpapers. An extremely rare edition of Books 1-12 of Rhazes's Continens (al-Hawi), the largest and most important of his works. "The arrangement of the subject-matter in al-Hawi gives the impression that the author probably had several study-files, each containing quires for copying notes from reference books. He did not neglect to record even those opinions which seemed false to him, invariable adding his private comments and personal experiences ... Each of al-Razi's medical study files was reserved for notes on a certain topic [and from these he] selected subject-matter for his other written works" (A. Z. Iskandar, Religion, learning and science in the Abbasid period, pp. 373-74). Signatures: a-z8 [et]8 [us]8 [rum] 8 aa-ee8 ff6 [prescription sign]4 gg-zz8 [2et]8 [2us]8 [2rum]8 A-Q8. Colophon (Q8r): "Impressum Venetijs mandato & sumptibus heredi ... Octauiani Scoti ... per Bonetum Locatellum ... sexto supra millesimi quinquiesq; centesimum quintodecimo kalendas maias paschali videlicet tempore." Device of Ottaviano Scoto on t.p. Printed in two columns. Decorative woodcut initials. Medicine, Arab R128.3 .R39 1529 234075473 aacr CaOTUTF 070426 20120410035133.0 ocn234075473 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.5 using MARC21slim2MODS3-5.xsl (Revision 1.111 2016/3/24) eng