RHAZES -- AL-RAZI, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya (865?...

Summi medici opera exquistiora , quibus nihil utilius ad actus practicos extat, omnia enim penitus quae habet aut Hippocrates obscuriora, aut Galenus fusiora, fidelisime doctissimeq[ue] exponit, & in lucem profert. Per Gerardum Toletanum... Andream Vesalium... Albanum Torinum... Basileae in Officina Henrichi Petri. [Colophon:] ... mense Martio, anno M.D.XLIIII

Basle: Heinrich Petri, 1544.
Folio: a--d6 A--Zz6 AA6 BB--CC4 DD6, 320 leaves, pp. [48] 590 [2].Roman letter with Italic headings. Woodcut printer's device on verso of last leaf, woodcut initials. Leaf size and condition: 286 x 187mm. Title and last leaf soiled and with erased inscriptions; annotation partially washed out of T1 leaving a stain; waterstain in lower corners of sigs Oo--Xx; corners of leaves Rr1--3 restored; some light discolouration in places, but on the whole a clean copy with good margins. Binding: Eighteenth-century English mottled calf, old rebacking. Corners worn Provenance and annotation: Early inscriptions on title erased; engraved armorial bookplate on verso of title, 'E Libris Thomae Addams M.D. Coll. Med. Lond. Soc.', probably Thomas Addams, MB of Trinity College, Cambridge, FRCP 1741 and physician to St Thomas's Hospital 1759 (see Munk); inscriptions on endleaf: 'John Read Corrie, Ap. 2 1830'; and 'J. King jun. from R. Jones June 1852'. Walter Pagel (1896--1983), signature dated 1955; B. E. J. Pagel (1930--2007). References: VD16 M 6770; Adams R224; Bird 2027; Durling 3313; Manchester 2010; Wellcome 5460. Cushing, Vesalius, I.-3.
First edition the Liber ad Almansorem to contain Vesalius' paraphrase of the 9th book (the ninth book was first printed in 1479; all 10 books in 1481; and Vesalius' paraphrase in 1537).
§ This edition of the ten books of al-Razi, Liber ad Almansorem contains the third printing of Vesalius' Paraphrasis, an annotated paraphrase (or rather a revision of earlier translations) of the ninth book, a popular treatise on pathology and therapeutics that was often printed on its own. This was Vesalius' first publication, printed at Louvain in February 1537. He corrected and amplified his notes and more than doubled their number for the second edition, printed at Basle only a month later. In this edition Vesalius' annotations are printed as marginal notes. As well as the Liber ad Almansorem this edition includes a number of shorter works by Rhazes: Liber de pestilentia; liber divisionum; De antidotis; De affectibus juncturarum; De morbis infantium; Aphorismorum, sive secretorum medicinalium; Antidotarius; De praeservatione ab aegritudine lapidis; De sectionibus, caueriis, & ventosis; and De facultatibus partium animalium. The texts were edited by Alban Thorer, all the translations being by Gerard of Cremona, except for the Vesalius translation of Liber ad Almansorem Book 9 and Thorer's own translation of Book 10, and the Liber de pestilentia translated by Giorgio Valla (Durling). The greatest of all the Arab physicians, al-Razi (Latinised Rhazes or Rhases, 865--925), was chief physician at the hospital in Baghdad and ranks with Hippocrates and Galen as one of the founders of clinical medicine. Grolier, Medicine, 6 cites the 1481 edition of the Liber ad Almansorem; Garrison--Morton 39.1 the 1497 edition.

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