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Comm. Avicenne Canon IV 3-5

Dinus de Garbo · 6 pictures

A printed medical commentary on Avicenna's Canon, Book IV, by the Italian physician Dinus de Garbo, a text for university-trained physicians of the Middle Ages, set in dense Latin black-letter columns. The pages show a few decorated historiated initials with woodcut-style figures and some rubricated chapter headings, offering a designer dense text blocks, hand-set column rhythm, and small framed initials as models for historical typographic layout.

Médecins du Moyen Age

Internet Archive · Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé (Paris) · Public domain · More from this library