# Johannes Herbort at Padua prints a dated Latin Canon in 1476 for a university town

Date: 1476

## The fact

ISTC ia01418000 records Padua: Johannes Herbort, 1476, with part I dated 28 September 1476, a Latin Canon with De viribus cordis. Padua is later a famous medical faculty. Print on the spot is an access path into a teaching city.

## Context

Padua also locked the Canon into exams. Split that harm onto Siraisi. High confidence on ISTC dating.

[Avicenna](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

The named official or archival page and the independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: ISTC ia01418000 — Canon medicinae, Padua Herbort 1476 (https://data.cerl.org/istc/ia01418000; Consortium of European Research Libraries).

## Significance

A 1476 Padua Canon is a faculty-town access path, not a licence to freeze anatomy.

A 1476 Padua Canon is a faculty-town access path, not a licence to freeze anatomy.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Avicenna: https://factrail.ai/people/avicenna

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://data.cerl.org/istc/ia01418000
- https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691609492/avicenna-in-renaissance-italy

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/av-padua-herbort-canon-1476