Zahrawi (Abu'l-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-, & [Theodorus Priscianus]). Octavii Horatiani Rerum medicarum lib. quatuor.I. Logicus, De curationibus omnium ferme morborum ... II. De acutis & chronicis passionibus ... III. Gynecia ... IIII. De physica scientia ... Albucasis chirurgicorum omnium primarii, lib. tres. I. Cauterio cum igne, & medicinis acutis per singula corporis humani membra. Cum instrumentorum delimatione. II. De sectione & perforatione, phlebotomia, & ventosis. De vulneribus, & extractione sagittarum, & ceteris similibus. Cum formis instrumentorum. III. De restauratione & curatione dislocationis membrorum. Cum typis item instrumentorum, 2 parts in one volume, Strasbourg: Johann Schott, 26 February 1532, [4 leaves] + 319 pages, title within decorative woodcut border, numerous woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments throughout the text, title-page slightly browned and marked, small early ink inscription at foot ‘R 1 . (.) .’ later ownership inscription (‘Geo. Bell’) to head of title, 18th-century engraved bookplate of one Angelo M. Sisinni verso, title restrengthened with archival tissue to margins verso, following leaf with minor repair to upper right corner, bookplate removed from front endpaper, fine modern antique-style blind-decorated full calf gilt, folio (29.5 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Adams P2119; Choulant 217; Durling 3764; Hirsch-H. IV, 677; Parkinson 1965; STC 415; Stillwell, Awakening, 532; Waller 7646; Wellcome I, 5256. 'The most attractive printed edition' of the chapter on surgery and surgical instruments from the Kitab al-Tasrif (Vrolijk & van Leeuwen, Arabic Studies in the Netherlands, p. 6), the foundational Arabic medical treatise by 10th-century Andalusian physician Abu'l-Qasim al-Zahrawi (circa 936-1013), 'the greatest surgeon of the medieval ages', and known in the Latin West as Albucasis (Meri, ed., Medieval Islamic Civilisation: an Encyclopaedia, I p. 783). The Kitab al-Tasrif is divided into thirty chapters, of which the first (on general principles of medicine), the second (on symptoms and treatments of diseases), and the thirtieth (the present chapter, on surgery) account for more than half the book's entire length. The chapter on surgery is 'the first comprehensive and illustrated treatment on its subject' (Library of Congress cataloguing, online), and is itself divided into three sections: on cauterization, on phlebotomy, dissection, wounds, and the extraction of arrows, and on bone-setting. It was translated into Latin from the Arabic by Gerard of Cremona in the 13th century, and first printed, in Latin, in 1497. In this edition al-Zahrawi's text is proceeded by a companion work, Rerum medicarum libri quatuor, which is the Latin translation by Byzantine physician Theodorus Priscianus (fl. 4th century CE) of his own compendium of medical remedies, the Euporista, originally written in Greek. It is attributed here to 'Octavianus Horatianus'.
Zahrawi (Abu'l-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-, & [Theodorus Priscianus]). Octavii Horatiani Rerum medicarum lib. quatuor.I. Logicus, De curationibus omnium ferme morborum ... II. De acutis & chronicis passionibus ... III. Gynecia ... IIII. De physica scientia ... Albucasis chirurgicorum omnium primarii, lib. tres. I. Cauterio cum igne, & medicinis acutis per singula corporis humani membra. Cum instrumentorum delimatione. II. De sectione & perforatione, phlebotomia, & ventosis. De vulneribus, & extractione sagittarum, & ceteris similibus. Cum formis instrumentorum. III. De restauratione & curatione dislocationis membrorum. Cum typis item instrumentorum, 2 parts in one volume, Strasbourg: Johann Schott, 26 February 1532, [4 leaves] + 319 pages, title within decorative woodcut border, numerous woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments throughout the text, title-page slightly browned and marked, small early ink inscription at foot ‘R 1 . (.) .’ later ownership inscription (‘Geo. Bell’) to head of title, 18th-century engraved bookplate of one Angelo M. Sisinni verso, title restrengthened with archival tissue to margins verso, following leaf with minor repair to upper right corner, bookplate removed from front endpaper, fine modern antique-style blind-decorated full calf gilt, folio (29.5 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Adams P2119; Choulant 217; Durling 3764; Hirsch-H. IV, 677; Parkinson 1965; STC 415; Stillwell, Awakening, 532; Waller 7646; Wellcome I, 5256. 'The most attractive printed edition' of the chapter on surgery and surgical instruments from the Kitab al-Tasrif (Vrolijk & van Leeuwen, Arabic Studies in the Netherlands, p. 6), the foundational Arabic medical treatise by 10th-century Andalusian physician Abu'l-Qasim al-Zahrawi (circa 936-1013), 'the greatest surgeon of the medieval ages', and known in the Latin West as Albucasis (Meri, ed., Medieval Islamic Civilisation: an Encyclopaedia, I p. 783). The Kitab al-Tasrif is divided into thirty chapters, of which the first (on general principles of medicine), the second (on symptoms and treatments of diseases), and the thirtieth (the present chapter, on surgery) account for more than half the book's entire length. The chapter on surgery is 'the first comprehensive and illustrated treatment on its subject' (Library of Congress cataloguing, online), and is itself divided into three sections: on cauterization, on phlebotomy, dissection, wounds, and the extraction of arrows, and on bone-setting. It was translated into Latin from the Arabic by Gerard of Cremona in the 13th century, and first printed, in Latin, in 1497. In this edition al-Zahrawi's text is proceeded by a companion work, Rerum medicarum libri quatuor, which is the Latin translation by Byzantine physician Theodorus Priscianus (fl. 4th century CE) of his own compendium of medical remedies, the Euporista, originally written in Greek. It is attributed here to 'Octavianus Horatianus'.
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