The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the RenaissanceThe Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

Surgery, with the Shape of Instruments

Surgery

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Guy de Chauliac (ca. 1298–ca. 1368) Chirurgia parva Albucasis [Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-‘Abbās az-Zahrāwī (936–1013)] Chirurgia cum formis instrumentorum (Trans. Gerardus Cremonensis) Jesus filius Hali [ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Kahhal (fl. 1010 ad)] De oculis (Trans. Dominicus Marrochinus) Canamusali de Baldach [Abu’l-Qûsim Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili?] De oculis Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for the heirs of Octavianus Scotus, 27 Jan. 1500/1 The Le Roy Crummer Collection

This volume contains a number of medical treatises, of which the second is on display: the editio princeps of Gerard of Cremona’s Latin translation of Albucasis’s surgical treatise, Chirurgia cum formis instrumentorum (Surgery, with the shape of instruments). This three-part manual became the most popular surgical text of the Middle Ages.