Hebrew translations of Avicenna, Sefer ha-kanon (Canon of Medicine) by Nathan ben Eliezer ha- Me’ati
Hebrew translations of Avicenna, Sefer ha-kanon (Canon of Medicine) by Nathan ben Eliezer ha- Me’ati, and Maimonides, Ma’amar ha-nikhbad (On Poisons) by Moses ibn Tibbon Italy (?), 15th c. University of Pennsylvania, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, LJS 311 Avicenna (Arabic: Abū Alī al‘Husain ibn Abdullāh ibn Sīnā; Hebrew: Aven Sina; ca. 980–1037) was the most renowned Islamic medical author of the Middle Ages. Consisting of approximately one million words, the Canon of Medicine is an immense compendium of ancient and Islamic medical knowledge. -- source link
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