INCUNABULA RHAZES [i e Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al Ra

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RHAZES [i. e., Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi]. Liber nonus ad Almansorem. With commentary by Silanus de Nigris. [89] (of [90]) leaves; lacks final blank. Gothic type. Folio, 291x199 mm, later 17th-/early 18th-century calf gilt; contents toned, minor spotting and stains toward end, repairs in blank lower margin of last 3 leaves. (Venice: Otinus de Luna, 21 July 1497)

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Sixth edition in Latin and fourth with this commentary, which was first published in 1476. The Liber ad Almansorem was a medical compilation in 10 books by the Baghdad physician Rhazes (circa 854-circa 935), "the greatest clinician of Islam and of the Middle Ages" (Sarton). The ninth book was widely used as a textbook of pathology and therapeutics and separately published and commented upon; see lot 194. BMC V, 569; Goff R183; Klebs 946.4; Sarton I, 609, and III, 1193.