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This copy of the commentary by Italian professor and physician Gentilis de Fulgineo (died 1348) on the medical handbook by Abu ‘Ali al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Sina (980–1037), commonly known as Avicenna, was printed in Padua, Italy, but illuminated in Germany. Its first owner was Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514). It was included in Schedel’s large library of more than 600 works that came into the possession of Johann Jakob Fugger (1516–75) around the middle of the 16th century, before being passed on to the Munich court ...