Avicenna. Compendium de anima. De mahad, i[d est] de dispositione seu loco, ad quem revertitur homo vel anima eius post mortem. Aphorismi de anima.... Show moreAvicenna. Compendium de anima. De mahad, i[d est] de dispositione seu loco, ad quem revertitur homo vel anima eius post mortem. Aphorismi de anima. De diffinitionibus & quaesitis. De divisione scientiarum. Ab Andrea Alpago Bellunensi ex arabico in latinum versa. Cum expositionibus eiusdem Andreae colectis ab auctoribus Arabicis. Venice, heirs of Lucantonio Guiunta, 1546. 8vo, 1l (bin.) + 1t + 3 + 390 + 1 + 1 + 1l (bin), with woodcut printer's device on title, repeated at colophon; a very good copy in modern stiff vellum with ties. First edition of Alpago's translation (De anima had only once appeared separately before, at Pavia in 1484, in the translation of Johannes Hispalensis and Domingo Gundisalvo). Alpago made his name through his translations of Avicenna. His eminent version of the Canon went through numerous editions, but this book and his other trnaslations appeared in one edition only. "Avicenna insisted on the Soul's individual immortality. To begin with, he held that the immaterial is incorruptible. Moreover he was convinced not only of the soul's immateriality but also of his individuality. He argued for both these points simultaneously: Wehen one refers to himself as 'I', this cannot be a reference to his body. If a man were to come into being fully mature and rational but suspended in space so that he was totally unaware of his physical circumstances, he would still be certain of one thing - his own existence as an individual self" (The encyclopedia of philosophy Die Vorlage enth. insgesamt ... Werke. Main Heritage Shelves General B753.F32 A95 1546 Book Item-ID: i10073760 BIB-ID: 1009012 Show less
Medicine, Medicine--Early works to 1800, RB24 .I266 1543
[SERAPION, the elder]. Iani Damasceni Decapolitani summae inter Arabes autoritatis medici, therapeutice methodi, hoc est, curandi artis libri VII.... Show more[SERAPION, the elder]. Iani Damasceni Decapolitani summae inter Arabes autoritatis medici, therapeutice methodi, hoc est, curandi artis libri VII. partim Albano Torino Vitodurano paraphrste, partim Gerardo iatro Cremonensi mataphraste ... Basle, Henric Petri [1543] Small folio, 1 l(b) + 1t + 1 + 8(pref.) + 14(ind.) + 491 + 1device) + 1 l(b), with woodcut printer's device on verso of colophon leaf; contemporary blind tooled calf, rebacked, new endleaves, clasps restored. First edition of Alban Thorer's (Albanus Torinus) paraphrase of books I-IV of Serapion's Therapeutica methodi, the remainder in the translation of Gerard of Cremona, with the Aphorisms published for the first time. Serapion the elder was a Christian physician who flourished in Damascus in the second half of the ninth century. He wrote, in Syriac, two medical compilations, one in 12, the other (as here) in 7 books. The latter was several times translated into Arabic, and thence into Latin by Gerard of Cremona. Serapion's theraputics were "very popular in the Middle Ages. Sezgin, III, pp. 240-42. Adams I14; Bird 1294; Choulant p. 347; Durling 4778; Parkinson & Lumb 2278; Wellcome 4272. Main Heritage Shelves General RB24 .I266 1543 Book Item-ID: i10104847 BIB-ID: 1012120 Show less