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AËTIUS OF AMIDA. c.450-c.550. Contractae ex veteribus medicinae tetrabiblos.... Basel: [Hieronymus Froben & Nikolaus Episcopius], 1542.
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AËTIUS OF AMIDA. c.450-c.550.
Contractae ex veteribus medicinae tetrabiblos.... Basel: [Hieronymus Froben & Nikolaus Episcopius], 1542.
Folio (311 x 193 mm). α6 a-z6 A-Zz6 AA-HH6 II4 KK-LL8. Large woodcut printer's device on title and final leaf, and 17 woodcut initials by HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER. Contemporary pigskin elaborately stamped in blind, upper cover centered with armorial arms in black, brass clasps. Part of lower margin of title cutaway and repaired, old stamp pasted over on title, small marginal worming and some pale dampstaining to extreme upper margin, occasional light foxing but a clean, wide-margined copy.
Provenance: Joannes Follinus (ownership signature to title "Sum Joannis follini Philos Medecina Doctoris"); Joannis Martini Waibel (ownership signature to title; marginalia throughout).
SECOND COMPLETE LATIN EDITION, "much improved" (Garrison-Morton) from the first complete Latin edition of 1533-34. "Aëtius studied in Alexandria and lived in Byzantium where he was court physician under the Emperor Justinian I. He was held in great repute by Renaissance physicians and his translator here, Janus Cornarius (1500-1558), regarded him as the greatest of the medical writers. His Tetrabiblos (so called because the text, as here, is divided and subdivided into four parts each) is a compilation which remains the chief source of knowledge for the works of Rufus of Ephesus and Leonides in surgery, and of Soranus and Philumenos in gynecology and obstetrics. Aëtius gives his own description of diseases of the eyes, ears, nose, throat, and teeth and includes good accounts of goiter, rabies, diphtheria, and various surgical procedures, such as tonsillectomy, urethrotomy, and the treatment of hemorrhoids" (Heirs of Hippocrates). The present copy bears the ownership signature of Joannes Follinus, likely the German physician who published Tyrocinium medicinæ practicæ (1648) and other medical texts in the mid-17th century. Heirs of Hippocrates 49; Wellcome 50. Cf. Garrison-Morton 33 & 6974.
Folio (311 x 193 mm). α6 a-z6 A-Zz6 AA-HH6 II4 KK-LL8. Large woodcut printer's device on title and final leaf, and 17 woodcut initials by HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER. Contemporary pigskin elaborately stamped in blind, upper cover centered with armorial arms in black, brass clasps. Part of lower margin of title cutaway and repaired, old stamp pasted over on title, small marginal worming and some pale dampstaining to extreme upper margin, occasional light foxing but a clean, wide-margined copy.
Provenance: Joannes Follinus (ownership signature to title "Sum Joannis follini Philos Medecina Doctoris"); Joannis Martini Waibel (ownership signature to title; marginalia throughout).
SECOND COMPLETE LATIN EDITION, "much improved" (Garrison-Morton) from the first complete Latin edition of 1533-34. "Aëtius studied in Alexandria and lived in Byzantium where he was court physician under the Emperor Justinian I. He was held in great repute by Renaissance physicians and his translator here, Janus Cornarius (1500-1558), regarded him as the greatest of the medical writers. His Tetrabiblos (so called because the text, as here, is divided and subdivided into four parts each) is a compilation which remains the chief source of knowledge for the works of Rufus of Ephesus and Leonides in surgery, and of Soranus and Philumenos in gynecology and obstetrics. Aëtius gives his own description of diseases of the eyes, ears, nose, throat, and teeth and includes good accounts of goiter, rabies, diphtheria, and various surgical procedures, such as tonsillectomy, urethrotomy, and the treatment of hemorrhoids" (Heirs of Hippocrates). The present copy bears the ownership signature of Joannes Follinus, likely the German physician who published Tyrocinium medicinæ practicæ (1648) and other medical texts in the mid-17th century. Heirs of Hippocrates 49; Wellcome 50. Cf. Garrison-Morton 33 & 6974.