The “Articella” was written in Baghdad by the physician, writer, translator, and scientist Hunayn bin Ishaq, better known in the West as Iohannitius. It contains a synthesis of classical Greek medical works mainly treatises by Hippocrates (5th–4th century BC) and Galen (1st century AD), among other authors and was used as a textbook and reference manual between the 13th and 16th centuries.
This is an incunabulum edition, printed during the early years of the modern printing press. These types of editions, of which only a few copies were produced, are small works of art that imitated every detail of handwritten books, with printers who were themselves artists expressing their craft through their work.
In short, a highly valuable book that, like other incunabula, has become a historic publication that, for the first time, made culture accessible to everyone.