AVICENNAE Liber Canonis De Medicinis cordialibus Cantica De Remouendis nocumentis in regimine fanitatis De Syrupo acetofo. Venetiis, Apud Iuntas, MDLXII (1562). 1 volume (out of 2), in Folio, p. [2]+76 (Index)+vi (leave numbering)+176 (leave numbering)+[1]. With woodcut device on title and colophon. This volume includes the 2 of the 4 Avicennas books (Libros I-II). The version of the viribus cordis is by Arnaldus de Villanova and that of Cantica by Armengandus Blasii. [Bound together, at the begining of the volume] Index in Avicennae Libros nuper Venetiis editos. With woodcut device on title as well. A comprehensive index to its contents whose compilation must have been a considerable undertaking. The titlepage says that it is particularly intended to provide a reference to the effects of medicaments ‘both simples and compounds’ on the human body. Other ornaments and engraved capital letters throughout the whole volume. Full calf of the time, four spine nerves, with handwritten (pen) title; leather visibly rubbed, some joints cracked, scattered signs of worming. Clean and tight inside, wtih dampstaining throughout, light soiling to a few leaves, a few short marginal creases. Avicenna (also known as Ibn Sina, 980-1037) was an Arabian philosopher and arguably one of the outstanding medical scientists and physicians of the time, who had perhaps a wider influence in the eastern and western hemispheres than any other Islamic thinker (PMM).He made significant contributions in the development of various medical fields in the golden age of Islamic medicine (9-12th century AD) and in Europe. Ibn Sina contributed immensely to human anatomy, physiology, pathology and management of most disorders of the human body. Liber canonis, his voluminous medical encyclopaedia, presents a comprehensive account of Muslim medical knowledge of his time, tracing its origins to the teachings of Hippocrates, Galen and Aristotle.