Cantica de medicina by Avicenna]]> <p>This edition of Avicenna&rsquo;s <em>Canon</em> is its first appearance in print as well as the first printing of a medical treatise in Hebrew&mdash;and the only one produced during the fifteenth century. Hebrew printing in the 15th century was restricted to Italy and the Iberian peninsula; after the expulsion from Spain in 1492, printers in Italy and Portugal produced a very small number of works. The Gunzenhauser family founded the first Hebrew press in Naples in 1486; this edition of the <em>Canon</em>was one of the last Hebrew books printed in that city.</p>]]> Canon medicinae (Naples, 9 November 1491) written in Hebrew]]> Canon, written by Mordechai bar Elia in a rabbinical hand, was formerly in the library of Prince Dietrichstein of Nikolsburg.]]> Canon]]>