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Cantica de medicina

This lesser-known medical work of Avicenna is bound in a manuscript musical sheet with an unusual skull-and-crossbones illuminated initial.

Tags: Avicenna, Ballard Collection, Exhibit: Sages Scholars and Healers, Hyams Collection, incunabula

The Canon medicinae, a compendium of medical knowledge and a guide to clinical teaching, was derived from Galenic and Hippocratic writings and infused by Avicenna with Arabic medical lore. The Canon includes detailed disquisitions on pathology,…

Tags: Avicenna, Ballard Collection, Exhibit: Sages Scholars and Healers, Exhibit: The Fifteeners, Hyams Collection, incunabula, Judaica

A leaf from the Canon Medicinae of Avicenna

This manuscript copy of Avicenna's Canon, written by Mordechai bar Elia in a rabbinical hand, was formerly in the library of Prince Dietrichstein of Nikolsburg.

Tags: Arabic medicine, Avicenna, Ballard Collection, Canon medicinae, Exhibit: Gilt by Association, Exhibit: Sages Scholars and Healers, Hyams Collection, Judaica, medieval manuscripts