medicine · 11th century · 4 crossings
Canon of Medicine
القانون في الطبal-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb
Ibn Sina's complete system of medicine, begun at Jurjan, continued at Rayy and finished at Hamadan around 1024, in the gaps of a political career. In Latin it organized European medical teaching into the 17th century.
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Liber Canonis
translated by Gerard of Cremona in Toledo
Made with his team of collaborators in Toledo. The attribution rests on the Commemoratio librorum, the list of translations his students compiled at his death, where the Canon is item 63. A rival attribution to a 13th-century 'Gerard de Sabloneta' has no medieval testimony behind it.
- Lemay 1978 item 63 in the students' list
- Burnett 2001
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edited by Adolf Rusch in Strasbourg
The editio princeps, usually credited to Strasbourg around 1473, with Milan 1473 also claimed. About 15 editions followed by 1500, and some 60 more, whole or in part, between 1500 and 1674; Montpellier and Louvain still taught the book around 1650.
- Siraisi 1987 census of the printed editions
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translated by Nathan ha-Me'ati in Rome
The first complete Hebrew Canon, finished in Rome in 1279. The Hebrew text was printed at Naples in 1491-92, before the Arabic ever reached print.
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edited by Giovanni Battista Raimondi in Rome
The Medici Oriental Press printed the Arabic text itself in Rome, in type cut for the purpose, largely for export back to the lands that wrote it. The book had waited five and a half centuries for its own language to reach print.