# Siraisi’s 1987 Princeton monograph documents the Canon as a locked Italian university textbook

Date: 1987

## The fact

Nancy G. Siraisi’s [Avicenna](/people/avicenna) in Renaissance Italy, issued by Princeton University Press in 1987, is a completed scholarly instrument showing that Latin Canon books remained obligatory teaching matter in Italian faculties into the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The dated carrier is the 1987 monograph. Avicenna did not sit a Padua board. Lock-in is the welfare path: one medieval encyclopedia as the gate of a medical degree.

## Context

Print access and curricular monopoly are twins. The 1473–1544 folios sit on access rows. Do not invent a unique 1600 mortality coefficient from the lock-in alone.

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: Siraisi, Avicenna in Renaissance Italy (Princeton) (https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691609492/avicenna-in-renaissance-italy; Princeton University Press).

## Significance

A documented university lock-in of the Canon is a teaching-access cost against rival methods.

A documented university lock-in of the Canon is a teaching-access cost against rival methods.

## 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://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3558117/
- https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691609492/avicenna-in-renaissance-italy

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/av-siraisi-university-lock-1987