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� The first page <strong>of</strong> a copy <strong>of</strong> Al-Qanun<br />

74 The works <strong>of</strong> Ibn Sina in <strong>the</strong> Süleymaniye Manuscript Library<br />

Next page, top left and clockwise: A decorated chapter opening<br />

<strong>of</strong> a work by Ibn Sina; A gilded binding <strong>of</strong> an edition <strong>of</strong> Al-Qanun;<br />

The title page from a copy <strong>of</strong> Ibn Sina’s Al-Qanun, better known<br />

to Renaissance Europe as ‘Avicenna’s Canon’, <strong>the</strong> great medical<br />

textbook; A decorated page from a copy <strong>of</strong> Al-Qanun �

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