1471 MESUE, Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (يوحنا بن ماسويه) (777 – 857)
Opera medicinalia. Ed: Peregrinus Cavalcobovis, with a preface by Nicolaus Gupalatinus. Consisting of: Canones universales. De simplicibus. Grabadin. Practica.
This undated edition, which the ISTC im00508000 catalogues as "not before 18 May 1471", may be the earliest printed edition of the writings of the medieval Persian or Assyrian Nestorian Christian physician Yuhanna ibn…
GMN 10960 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13156
1472 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); FERRARI DA GRADI, Giovanni Matteo [Ferrarius, Johannes Matthaeus, de Gradibus, de Grado] (1392 – 1472)
Opera medica, sive Practica cum textu noni ad Almansorem.
A commentary on Rhazes with notes and additions. For bibliographical and other details regarding this, the first large medical book to be printed, see the essay by Arnold C. Klebs in: Essays on the history of medicine…
GMN 2192 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1389
1473 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); GERARD OF CREMONA, (Gerardus Cremonensis) (1114 – 1187)
Canon medicinae [Latin] (Lib I-V) (Tr: Gerardus Cremonensis) (5 vols.)
Avicenna is said to have written more than 100 books, most of which have perished. He wrote on the etiology of epilepsy and described diabetes, noticing the sweetish taste of the urine. His Canon is one of the most fa…
GMN 43 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8764
1476 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); NEGRIS, Salani de
Liber nonus ad Almansorem (cum expositione Silani de Negris).
The Almansor, so named after the prince to whom it was addressed, was a popular textbook and one of the first general medical texts to be printed. Rhazes ranks with Hippocrates and Galen as one of the founders of clin…
GMN 39 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/45
1481 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); MESUE, Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (يوحنا بن ماسويه) (777 – 857)
Liber ad Almansorem sive Tractatus medicinae I-X. Add: Liber divisionum; De aegritudinibus juncturarum; De aegritudinibus puerorum; De secretis sive aphorismi; De sectionibus et ventosis; Synonyma. Galenus: De medicinis experimentatis. Mesue (the elder): Aphorismi. Hippocrates: secreta; Capsula eburnea; De humana natura; De aere et aqua et regionibus; De pharmaciis. Tabula de herbis medicis.
Rhazes was the first to devote an entire treatise to diseases of children. Although he lived so many years before the advent of printing, he was still regarded as an authority in the 15th century and his works were am…
GMN 6313 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8065
1486 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); FERAGIUS SALERNITANUS; BUGATUS, Joannes
Rhazes: Liber Elhavi sive Ars medicinae. Translated by Feragius Salernitanus. Edited by Joannes Bugatus.
The Al-Hawi, or Continens, a great encyclopedia of medicine. The above first Latin translation by Feragius Salernitanus is the largest and heaviest of the medical incunabula. The original manuscript was in Arabic. IST…
GMN 40 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8762
1492 IBN AL'ABBAS AL MAJUSI, Ali (Haly Abbas) (930 – 994); STEPHEN OF ANTIOCH, (Stephen of Pisa); VITALIS, Antonius
Liber medicinae, sive Regalis dispositio. Tr: Stephanus Antiochenus. Ed: Antonius Vitalis.
The Almaleki, or Liber regius, of Haly Abbas was the leading treatise on medicine for a hundred years, when it was displaced by Avicenna’s Canon. This was the only edition printed in the 15th century. ISTC No. ih00003…
GMN 42 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8763
1497 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); AVENZOAR [IBN ZUHR (ARABIC: ابن زهر ] (1092 – 1162); MESUE, Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (يوحنا بن ماسويه) (777 – 857)
Rhazes: Liber ad Almansorem sive Tractatus medicinae I-X. Liber divisionum. De aegritudinibus juncturarum. De aegritudinibus puerorum. De secretis sive aphorismi. Antidotarium. De praeservatione ab aegritudine lapidis; Introductorium medicinae. De sectionibus et ventosis. Synonyma. De animalibus. Add:Tabula de herbis medicis; Maimonides: Aphorismi; Mesue (the elder): Aphorismi; Hippocrates: Secreta; Prognosticatio secundum lunam; Capsula eburnea; De humana natura; De aere et aqua et regionibus; De pharmaciis; De insomniis; Avenzohar: De cura lapidis.
The best edition of the Opuscula of Rhazes, containing the second printing of the celebrated Liber ad Almansorem, not to be confused with Liber nonus ad Almansorem, as well as De aegritudine puerorum (No. 6313), and o…
GMN 39.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/46
1520 –1522 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); AVENZOAR [IBN ZUHR (ARABIC: ابن زهر ] (1092 – 1162); AVERROËS [IBN RUSHD (ARABIC: ابن رشد), FULL NAME ʾABŪ L-WALĪD MUḤAMMAD IBN ʾAḤMAD IBN RUŠD] (1126 – 1198); ARNALD OF VILLANOVA, (Arnaldus de Villa Nova; Arnau de Vilanova; Arnaldus Villanovanus; Arnaud de Ville-Neuve; Arnaldo de Villanueva) (1240 – 1311); GENTILI DA FOLIGNO, Gentile (Gentilis Fulginas; Gentilis de Flugineo) ( – 1348); DESPARS, Jacques (Jacobus Partibus) (1380 – 1458)
[Vol. 1:] Primus Avi. Canon. Avicenna, medicorum principis, Canonum liber (translatus a Gerardo Cremonensi), una cum lucidissima Gentilis Fulgi. expositione, qui merito is Speculator appellatus, additis annotationibus omnium auctoritatum and priscorum and recentiorum auctorum (edente Barthomomeo Tantuccio) .... - [Vol. 2:] Secundus Canon Avic., Cum exquisitissima Gentilis Fulg. expositione. Demum Plinii auctoritates, secundum annotata capita in de Simplicibus nuperrime addite. - [Vol.3:] Tertius Can. Avic., Cum amplissima Gentilis Fulgi. expositione. Demum commentaria nuper addita, videlicet Jacobi de Partibus super "Fen" VI and XIIII. Item Jo. Matthei de Gradi super "Fen" XXII, quia Gentilis in eis defecit. - [Vol. 4:]: Secunda pars Gentilis super tertio Avic. Cum supplementis Jacobi de Partibus, Parisiensis, ac Joannis Matthei de Gradi, Mediolanensis, ubi Gentilis vel breviter vel tacite pertransivit. - [Vol.5:] Quartus Canon Avicenna, cum preclara Gentilis Fulginatis exhibits. Thadei item Florentini expositio super secunda "Fen" ejusdem. Gentilis Florentini iterum super duos primos tractatus quinte "Fen". Quintus etiam Canon, cum ejusdem Gentilis Fulginatis lucidissima exhibits. Canticorum liber, cum commento Averroys, translatus ex arabico a magistro Armegando Blasii, Libellus de Viribus cordis translatus ab Arnaldo de Villanova). Omnia accuratissime revisa atque castigata ....
The commentary by Gentile da Foligno upon Avicenna's Canon was among the most influential medical texts of the Later Middle Ages. See Roger K. French, Canonical medicine: Gentile da Foligno and scholasticism (Leiden: …
GMN 8344 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10520
1527 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); ALPAGO, Andrea [Andreas Alpagus Bellunensis] (1450 – 1521)
Avicenne liber canonis medicinae. Cum castigationibus Andree Bellunensis.
Revised and improved text of the Canon and other works of Avicenna by Andrea Alpago of Belluno, who had acquired a deep understanding of both the language and the subject during his thirty years of service as physicia…
GMN 7202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9369
1542 MESUE, Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (يوحنا بن ماسويه) (777 – 857); DUBOIS, Jacques [Jacobus Sylvius] (1478 – 1555)
Joannis Mesuae Damasceni De re medica libri tres Jacobo Sylvio medico interprete.
Dubois, better known as Sylvius, produced a new translation of the complete works of Mesue, which became the standard text, and was reprinted 21 times. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11598
1548 ALEXANDER OF TRALLES [ἈΛΈΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΌΣ; ALEXANDER TRALLIANUS] (525 – 605); RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); GOUPYL, Jacques (Goupil) (1525 – 1564)
Alexandrū Trallianū Iatrū Biblia Dyokaideka. Alexandri Tralliani medici libri XII. Rhazae De pestilentia libellus ex Syrorum lingua in Graecam translatus. Edited by Jacques Goupil.
First edition of the Greek text of the works of Alexander of Tralles, together with an edition of Rhazes on the plague. Both texts were edited by Jacques Goupil. The work was issued by the distinguished scholar printe…
GMN 11111 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13307
1593 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); RAIMONDI, Giovanni Battista (Giovan) (1536 – 1614)
Kitāb al-Qānūn fial-ţibb. [Libri V Canonis medicinae.]
Title transliterated. Text and title page (except imprint) are in Arabic. This is the first printing of the text in Arabic of Book V of al-Qānūn. See also S. M. Afnan, Avicenna, his life and works. London, 1958.
GMN 44 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8765
1766 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); CHANNING, John (1703 – 1775)
De variolis et morbillis commentarius.
The first medical description of smallpox was written by Rhazes, about the year 910… The above work is the first edition of the Arabic text with a parallel Latin translation by the English pharmacist and scholar, John…
GMN 2527.99 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3481
1830 –1833 ABU MANSUR MUVAFFAK HARAWI (PERSIAN: ابو منصور موفق هروی) (970 – ); SELIGMANN, Franz Romeo (1808 – 1892)
Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae. Auctore Abu Mansur Mowafik ben Ali al Herui. Epitome codicis manuscripti persici Bibl. caes. reg. Vienn. inediti. Primus Latio donavit Romeo Seligmann. 2 vols.
The most important early Persian pharmacological work, first published in print in Latin translation. Muvaffak flourished in Herat (current Afghanistan), under the Samanid prince Mansur I ibn Nuh, who ruled from 961 t…
GMN 1788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1842
1842 WENRICH, Johann Georg (1787 – 1847)
De auctorum graecorum versionibus et commentariis syriacis, arabicis, armeniacis persicisque commentatio.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10601
1848 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); GREENHILL, William Alexander (1814 – 1894)
A treatise on the smallpox and measles. Translated from the Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill.
Rhazes differentiated measles from smallpox. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 4, 22-84. For original publication see No. 5404. The first English translation appeared in No. 5417. Digital facsimile from the Internet A…
GMN 5441 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7473
1868 WÜSTENFELD, Heinrich Ferdinand (1808 – 1899); AL-QAZWINI, Abu Yahya Zakariya ibn Muhammad (Zakarya Qazini) (1203 – 1283); ETHÉ, Carl Hermann (1844 – 1917)
Zakarīyā b. Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī's Kosmographie. Nach der Wüstenfeldschen Textausgabe, mit Benutzung und Beifügung der reichhaltigen Anmerkungen und Verbesserungen des Herrn Prof. Dr. Fleischer in Leipzig, aus dem Arabischen zum ersten Male vollständig übersetzt von Dr. Hermann Ethé. Die Wunder der Schöpfung. 1. Halbband
Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
GMN 10180 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12369
1893 ABU MANSUR MUVAFFAK HARAWI (PERSIAN: ابو منصور موفق هروی) (970 – ); ACHUNDOW, Abdul-Chalig
Die pharmakologischen Grundsätze (Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae) des Abu Mansur Muwaffak bin Ali Harawi zum estern Male nach dem Urtex übersetzt und mit Erklärungen versehen von Abdul-Chalig Achundow aus Baku. (aus Bd. 3 (1893) der Historischen Studien aus dem pharmakologischen Institute der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat). 2 vols.
First translation into a modern language.
GMN 8581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10758
1902 HIRSCHBERG, Julius (1843 – 1925); AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); LIPPERT, Julius (1839 – 1909)
Die Augenheilkunde des Ibn Sina aus dem Arabischen Übersetzt und Erläutert.
Translation of Book III, Fan III of Avicenna's Canon pertaining to the eye and its diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8824 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11002
1903 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); IBN AL'ABBAS AL MAJUSI, Ali (Haly Abbas) (930 – 994); AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); KONING, Pieter de
Trois traités d'anatomie arabes par Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi, 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas, et 'Ali ibn Sina. Text inédit de deux traités. Traduction de P. de Koning.
Parallel Arabic and French texts. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10539
1924 FICHTNER, Horst (1893 – )
Die Medizin im Avesta.
The Avesta (Persian: اوستا) is the primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the otherwise unrecorded Avestan language.
GMN 6512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8079
1928 SIDDĪQĪ, Muhammad Zubair; IBN SAHL RABBAN AL-TABARI, Abu al-Hasan Ali (علی ابن سهل ربان طبری ) (838 – 870)
Firdausu'l-Hikmat or Paradise of wisdom. Edited by M. Z. Siddiqi.
Firdous al-Hikmah is one of the oldest encyclopedias of Islamic medicine, based on Syriac translations of Greek sources (Hippocrates, Galen Dioscorides, and others). It is divided into 7 sections and 30 parts, with 36…
GMN 8326 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10502
1930 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); GRÜNER, Oskar Cameron (1877 – 1972)
A treatise on the Canon of Medicine incorporating a translation of the First Book
This translation of Book I of the Canon accompanied by a large number of valuable notes and comments on the text, which bring out the close connection between Arabic and Chinese medicine, and the influence which Avice…
GMN 45 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8766
1952 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); RAHMAN MALIK, Fazlur (1919 – 1988)
Avicenna's psychology: An English translation of Kitāb Al-najāt, Book II, Chapter VI, with historico-philosophical notes and textual improvements on the Cairo edition
GMN 13155 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15414
1956 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); JAHIER, Henri (1899 – 1977); NOUREDDINE, Abdelkader
Avicenne, Poème de la médecine, Urgūza fi' t-tibb, Cantica Avicennae.
GMN 12518 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14753
1959 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); RAHMAN MALIK, Fazlur (1919 – 1988)
Avicenna's De anima (Arabic text) being the psychological part of Kitāb al-Shifā'. Edited by R. Rahman.
GMN 13156 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15415
1965 AL-AKHAWYNI BOKHARI, Abu Bakr Rabee Ibn Ahmad (910 – 983); MATINI, Jalal (1928 – )
Hedayat al-Motaallemin fi Tebb. Edited by Jalal Matini.
First printed edition of the earliest medical work written in the Persian language. Matini based his edition on the 11th century codex Bodleian Library Ms. 37, checking that against the other two known copies of the t…
GMN 12569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14808
1973 AL-BĪRUNĪ, Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (973 – 1048); SAID, Hakim Mohammed (1920 – 1998)
Al-Biruni's book on pharmacy and materia medica (Kitāb al-saydan fī al-tibb). Edited and translated by Hakim Mohammed Said. 2 vols.
GMN 8524 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10701
1978 RICHTER-BERNBURG, Lutz (1945 – )
Persian medical manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles. A descriptive catalogue.
GMN 8468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10645
1999 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); GRÜNER, Oskar Cameron (1877 – 1972); BAKHTIAR, Laleh Mehree (1938 – )
The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fi'l-tibb). Adapted by Laleh Bakhtiar from translations of Volume 1 by O. Cameron Gruner and Mazar H. Shah. Correlated with the Arabic by Jay R. Crook with notes by O. Cameron Gruner.
GMN 10936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13132
2009 ABU MANSUR MUVAFFAK HARAWI (PERSIAN: ابو منصور موفق هروی) (970 – )
Kitab al-Abniya to Haqayiq al-adwiya ["The principles of the real character of medicinal plants"]. (Rawdat al-wa Us Manfaat al-nafs)[ By] Abu Mansur Muwaffaq bin Ali al-Hirawi. 5th AH Century. Facsimile Copy of the original manuscript AF 340. Austrian National Library, Vienna. Transcribed by Alī bin Ahmad Asadī Tūsī. Copied 447 Hijri. Persian Introduction: Iraj Afshar and Ali Ashraf Sadeghi. English Introduction: Bert G. Fragner / Nosratollah Rastegar, Karl Holubar, Eva Irblich and Mahmoud Omidsalar.
GMN 8582 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10759
2013 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); ABU-ASAB, Mones; AMRI, Hakima; MICOZZI, MARC S. (1953 – )
Avicenna's medicine: A new translation of the 11th-century Canon with practical applications for integrative health care.
A new translation of volume one of Avicenna's Qānūn (Canon), directly from the original Arabic.
GMN 8823 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11001
2015 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); MCVAUGH, Michael Rogers (1938 – ); BOS, Gerrit
Al-Rāzī, On the treatment of small children (De curis puerorum). The Latin and Hebrew Translations, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh.
One of the few texts on pediatrics that circulated during the Middle Ages, this short Latin tretise is the translation of a lost Arabic original attributed--perhaps mistakenly--to Rhazes.
GMN 8260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10436
2017 BERGMAN, Ronald Arly (1927 – ); AFIFI, Adel K.
Medieval Islamic medicine and medical luminaries.
GMN 11139 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13335
2018 SPEZIALE, Fabrizio
Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud.
"... discusses interactions between Ayurveda and Persian medical culture in South Asia. It presents, for the first time, a study of the Persian translation movement of Ayurvedic sources that took place from the fourte…
GMN 10540 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12733
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