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AVENZOHAR [Abu Marwan 'Abd al-Malik ibn Abi'l-'Ala' ibn Zuhr] (ca. 1092-1162). Liber teisir, sive rectificatio medicationis et regiminis. -Antidotarium . Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Jacobus Hebraeus, then into Latin by Parvicius. - AVERROES [Abu'l-Walid Muhammad ibn Admad ibn Muhammad ibn Rushd] (1126-98). Colliget . Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 4 January, 1490/91. 2 o (310 x 210 mm). Collation: s4; a-f 6 g 4; a-k 6 l 4 (r title, v blank, r-3r table and register to Avenzohar, v-4v table to Averroes, a1r-g1v Avenzohar Liber teisir , g1v-4r Avenzohar Antidotarium , g4v blank; a1r title, a1v blank, a2r-l4r Averroes, L4r colophon, register to Averroes, and printer's woodcut device (Kristeller 227), l4v blank). 108 leaves. Double columns. 70 lines and headline. Types 15:160G* (first title), 18:120G (second title), 17:80G b, 67G, and 16:66G. Initial spaces with printed guide-letters. (Unobtrusive dampstains to lower blank margins discreetly repaired on ca. 30 leaves, blank corner of second title replaced, small wormhole to extreme upper blank margin of ca. 15 leaves.) 18th-century vellum over pasteboard (rebacked in vellum). Provenance : neat marginalia in a 16th-century hand, especially frequent in Averroes; occasional marginal notes in a 17th-century hand; "B.A." (initials flanking a tower in an armorial shield supporting a pointing hand on h8v); "F.C." (initials flanking an armorial shield supporting a pointing hand on f5v, a similar device on k2r). FIRST EDITION. Avenzohar, a Moorish physician of the Western Caliphate, served the rulers of Spain and Morocco. His Kitab al-Taysir , which concerned the treatment of particular diseases, was written at the request of his friend, the great natural philosopher and physician Averroes. The work offers many clinical descriptions, including that of scabies and inflammation of the middle ear, and it recommended tracheotomy and artificial feeding. In Hebrew and Latin translation, Avenzohar's text circulated widely in medieval Europe. Averroes, best known as a commentator on the works of Aristotle, praised the Kitab al-Taysir as the best work available on particulars in medicine and therapeutics. His Kitab al-Kulliyyat , composed as its counterpart, was intended to supplement Avenzohar with a general theory of medicine. The two works were frequently published together. Goff A-1408; BMC V, 341 (IB.20989); GW 3103; H 2186; IGI 1103; Klebs 127.1; Pellechet 1652; Polain 438; Garrison-Morton 47; Stillwell Science 284; Wellcome 563; Norman 2282.