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The early Latin Canon incunables are large folios priced for faculties and rich houses

Split that access gain onto the 1473 improving row. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Income Inequality.

The early Latin Canon incunables are large folios priced for faculties and rich houses

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The dated public bibliographic instrument used here is ISTC ia01417700. A five-book folio is not a cheap pamphlet. Access for a faculty or a prince is not access for a village barber.

Context

Print also multiplies copies relative to manuscripts. Split that access gain onto the 1473 improving row.

Avicenna is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

An expensive medical folio is an inequality heading: knowledge priced as furniture.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Avicenna

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.24 · verified

    Named physician-philosopher as heading of later editions, faculties, and commemorations. Printers, faculties, and agencies publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactThe early Latin Canon incunables are large folios priced for faculties and rich houses
    2. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 12 February 1473 · verified

    An expensive medical folio is an inequality heading: knowledge priced as furniture.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.ISTC ia01417700 — Canon medicinae Latin, Rusch after Feb. 1473Consortium of European Research Libraries · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Siraisi, Avicenna in Renaissance Italy (Princeton)Princeton University Press · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

CERL’s ISTC records the Latin Canon medicinae in the Gerard of Cremona version printed from 1473 (Milan Lavagnia dated 12 February 1473; the Rusch Strasbourg issue after that February).

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAvicenna
  2. contributed toFactThe early Latin Canon incunables are large folios priced for faculties and rich houses
  3. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

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Factrail. (2026). The early Latin Canon incunables are large folios priced for faculties and rich houses. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/av-latin-incunable-price-1473

https://factrail.ai/facts/av-latin-incunable-price-1473

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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