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MESUE DAMASCENUS (JOANNES, 'The Younger') Domini Mesue Vita. Doctorum artis peonie cognomina. Canones universales divi Mesue de consolatione medicinarum, 2 parts in 1 vol., Lyon, Antoine du Ry for Giacomo & Francesco Giunti, 1531 image 1
MESUE DAMASCENUS (JOANNES, 'The Younger') Domini Mesue Vita. Doctorum artis peonie cognomina. Canones universales divi Mesue de consolatione medicinarum, 2 parts in 1 vol., Lyon, Antoine du Ry for Giacomo & Francesco Giunti, 1531 image 2
MESUE DAMASCENUS (JOANNES, 'The Younger') Domini Mesue Vita. Doctorum artis peonie cognomina. Canones universales divi Mesue de consolatione medicinarum, 2 parts in 1 vol., Lyon, Antoine du Ry for Giacomo & Francesco Giunti, 1531 image 3
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MESUE DAMASCENUS (JOANNES, 'The Younger'))
Domini Mesue Vita. Doctorum artis peonie cognomina, Lyon, Antoine du Ry for Giacomo & Francesco Giunti, 1531

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MESUE DAMASCENUS (JOANNES, 'The Younger')

Domini Mesue Vita. Doctorum artis peonie cognomina. Canones universales divi Mesue de consolatione medicinarum, 2 parts in 1 vol., title printed in red and black within decorative woodcut border, woodcut initials, printer's woodcut device at end of Part 1, some mostly light browning and spotting (heavier in a few signatures), old vellum with yapp edges, titled in ink on spine, some soiling and ink spots, wanting ties, tears to paste-downs [Durling 3137; USTC 155945], small 8vo, Lyon, Antoine du Ry for Giacomo & Francesco Giunti, 1531

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Scarce edition of the collected writings of Mesue, physician in Baghdad and at the court of Harun al Rashid, with commentary and additions by other physicians. The Life of Mesue and Doctorum artis peonie cognomenta are by the famous Lyon physician and heretic Symphorien Champier (1471-1538), to whom Rabelais erected a satirical monument in Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Provenance: Alessandro Borsi, bookseller; Antonio Jovii, purchase note on front free endpaper ("Questo libro lo com-pró Antonio Jovii da Alessandro Borsi Libraro 1755") and inscription at foot of title-page.

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