Ibn Masawayh, Abu Zakaria Yuhanna.( Known as Mesue). et al. D[omi]ni Mesue vita.

Doctorum artis peonie cognomina. Canones universales divi Mesue de consolatione medicinarum . . . Grabadin . . . quod antidotariu[m] nuncupatur [and other texts].

      Antonius du Ry for Jacobus & Franciscus de Giunta and partners,, Lyon 1523 - Small 8 vo. [348] leaves, with B1-7 (end of chapter 2 and most of chapter 3 of Canones universales) bound between gatherings a and b at the end. Title in red and black within woodcut historiated border, contents browned with occasional marginal dampstaining and scattered early marginalia, preliminaries reinforced in gutters, burn marks in blank upper inner corner of last few leaves. (Lyon: Antonius du Ry for Jacobus & Franciscus de Giunta and partners, 16 May 1523). Abu Zakariyya Yuhanna Ibn Massawayh (c.777-857) is one of the great names in Arab medicine. He was personal physician to the Abbasid Caliphs al-Ma'mun, al-Mu'tasim, al-Wathiq and al-Mutawakil, and spent most of his life in Baghdad and Samarra. He contributed to the translating activities of the famous " Bayt al-Hikma"; and Hunayn ibn Ishaq, the most influential of the translators of Greek scientific texts, was his pupil. Despite his distinction, much of Ibn Masawayh writing had not reached us. Just a handful of his texts are extant in Arabic. More has been preserved in Latin translation, though the attribution of some texts to an elder as opposed to a younger Mesue has given the false impression that there was more than one Ibn Masawayh. This work is a collection of medical writings ascribed to Ibn Massawayh (d. 1015), including a popular pharmacopoeia based on Muslim knowledge, "for centuries the standard text-book of pharmacy in the West" (Sarton). this edition contains the apparent earliest printing of the anatomia porci falsely attributed to Copho, a medieval account of the public dissection of a pig for teaching purposes at Salerno, which "may be said to mark the beginning of anatomical research in western Christian Europe" (Sarton). Also included are Symphorien Champier''s life of Mesuë and Doctorum artis peonie cognomina, a list of epithets customarily applied to noted medical authors from antiquity onward; Pietro d''Abano''s supplement to the pharmacopoeia; the antidotary of Nicolaus Salernitanus; the Ars medendi supposedly by Copho; and a synopsis by Jacques Desparts of selected remedies credited to Mesuë. Durling 3136; Choulant, Handbuch, page 355; Sarton I, 728 and 770, and II, 237; Stillwell 569. This edition has never been listed in American Book Prices Current. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]