Avenzohar

Chancery folio (303 x 205mm.), 103 leaves (of 104, without final blank), a-q⁶ r-s⁴, double column, 69 lines plus headline, gothic type, 4- and 13-line initial spaces, modern vellum, early annotations, paper repairs in outer margin (affecting some annotations)

Goff A1410; HC (Add) 2188; BSB-Ink A951; Bod-inc A-630; GW 3105; Klebs 127.3

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The third edition of Avenzohar's Kitab al-Teisir, a treatise on the alleviation of disease, also containing Averroes' al-Kulliyyat, his major medical work based on Galen and to a lesser extent on Hippocrates. Avenzohar (Ibn Zuhr) and Averroes (Ibn Rushd) were friends and contemporaries in twelfth-century Muslim Spain; these two works of theirs "were meant to constitute a comprehensive medical textbook" (DSB XII, p.7b).

Both treatises were written in Arabic, translated into Hebrew and then into Latin in the thirteenth century. This edition was prepared by the Camaldolese monk Girolamo Suriano (died 1522). For another volume containing a work by Avenzohar, with annotations in the same hand, see lot 119.