{"id":6641,"date":"2017-08-11T20:59:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=7329"},"modified":"2017-08-11T20:59:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:59:55","slug":"abu-al-qasim-august-2017-notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-hardin-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2017\/08\/11\/abu-al-qasim-august-2017-notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-hardin-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu al-Qasim | August 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"ABU AL-QASIM (d. 1013?). Liber theoricae necnon practicae Alsaharavii. [Augsburg: Impensis Sigismundi Grimm, & Marci Vuirsung, 1519].<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abu al-Qasim (or Abulcasis, or Albucasis, as he is variously known), a native of Cordova in Moorish Spain, may be classed with Avicenna in the importance of his great medical encyclopedia, al-Tasrif<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Kitab Al-Tasrif<\/em>\u00a0was originally published in 30 volumes in about 1000 CE, and then published in three parts after the invention of printing: the pharmaceutical part in 1471, the surgical in 1497, and the featured volume on general medicine, in 1519, edited by the Augsburg physician and printer Sigismund Grimm (fl. 1519).<\/p>\n

The work was known to physicians and surgeons in the West as well as in the Muslim world. \u00a0This book describes haemophilia for the first time.<\/p>\n

Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi is considered the most influential Arab surgeon to date and is considered the father of modern surgery. \u00a0More information about Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi<\/a> available from Muslim Heritage. \u00a0Arabic Wikipedia entry on Albucasis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The woodcut vignette from title page, is signed HB, for Hans Burgkmair (1473-1531), the famous sixteenth-century painter and printmaker of Augsburg, although it may have been cut by the Petrarca Master, whose splendid woodcut printer\u2019s device appears on the last leaf.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

You may view this book in the John Martin Rare Book Room, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences<\/a>. Make a gift to the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences by donating online<\/a> or setting up a recurring gift with The University of Iowa Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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