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The Canon in Arabic Type, Rome 1593

القانون بحروفه في روما

In 1593 the Medici Press in Rome printed the Arabic text of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine in Arabic type, together with his Book of Deliverance (al-Najat) – the first Arabic edition of the Canon. Nearly three centuries later it was printed in Tehran in 1867, and at Bulaq, Egypt, in 1877.

Author
Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (d. 1037)
Field
Medicine
Arabic title
القانون في الطبّ، ومعه كتاب النجاة (روما، مطبعة آل ميديتشي، ١٥٩٣م)
Latin title
Kitab al-Qanun fi al-tibb (Romae: In typographia Medicea, 1593)

See also: The Canon in Europe's universities, in its Latin translation

A page of Book III of the Canon in the Rome edition of 1593, in the Arabic type of the Medici Press
A page of Book III of the Canon in the Rome edition of 1593, in the Arabic type of the Medici Press
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