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Which royal library gave Avicenna access to works of science and philosophy?

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Avicenna The title page of the 1556 edition of Avicenna's *The Canon of Medicine* (*Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb*). This edition (sometimes called the 1556 Basel edition) was translated by medieval scholar Gerard of Cremona.

After successfully curing the sultan of Bukhara of an illness that had baffled other court physicians, Avicenna was granted access to the royal Sāmānid library. This opportunity provided him with a vast collection of works on science and philosophy, which proved instrumental in his intellectual development.1