HALY ABBAS (`Ali ibn al-`Abbas al-Majusi, d.994)
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ID 1514360
Lot 137 | HALY ABBAS ('Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi, d.994)
Valeur estimée
5000GBP £ 5 000 – 7 000
Liber totius medicine necessaria... Lyon: Jacobi Myt, 1523.
Second Latin edition of this ‘almost modern’ 10th-century Persian medical compendium. The Kāmil al-Ṣināʻa al-Ṭibbīya, called al-Malakī, by the Persian physician al-Majusi ‘consists of twenty treatises on the theory and practice of medicine (ten on each). In it the author referred to how he has studied and used indigenous medicinal plants, as well as animal and mineral products, as therapeutics...’ (DSB). His descriptions of pleurisy, the venous system, the importance of sleep, and the relationship between psychology and medicine are ahead of their time, sometimes ‘almost modern’; al-Majusi also discusses meteorology, hygiene, human behaviour, surgery, embryology, poisons and their antidotes, drug addiction and abuse; and upholds the principals of the Hippocratic oath. The text was originally translated by Stephen of Antioch, with annotations by Michael de Capella, in 1127, and first published in Venice as Liber regalis in 1492, edited by Antonius Vitalis Pyrranensis. Adams 746; DSB 9&10 pp.40-41; NLM/Durling 168; Wellcome 3048.
Quarto (198 x 135 mm). Without final blank O8. Double columns, title in red and black, headings in red. Woodcut title-page and initials (hinges of title and following leaf renewed, waterstaining at margins most pronounced at the beginning and end, bottom corners of k6 and r3 lost, marginal fraying most obvious at G). Contemporary French blindstamped calf, new endpapers (rebacked, lacking clasps, creased with small losses mainly at hinges and edges). Provenance: Marginal notes in Latin in a 16th-century hand on ff.131-4; William Hillary M.D. (1697–1763, author on tropical diseases; his annotations in Latin on title and final page), purchased in 1730 from the bookseller Robert Gray according to annotation on the title; ‘James Haywood’, surgeon (beside the erased ownership inscriptions at head of title); two small stamps ‘4127’ on title; S. & B. Nock Medical and General Booksellers (ticket inside upper cover); Royal Society of Medicine (ink stamp [Medical and Chirurgical Society] on verso of title and on final page).
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