Shelfmark
Fc.1.04 - Fc.1.08
Author
Title
Galeni Omnia quae extant opera in latinum sermonem conuersa. Iuntarum quarta editio. Pro qua illustranda quid actum sit, tum ex præfatione, tum ex librorum indice deprehendes.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Venetiis : [apud haeredes Lucaeantonii Iuntas], M D LXV. [1565]
Physical description
8 v. : ill. ; Fol.
Note
Title within woodcut border depicting Galen and other ancients treating patients and in discussion. The same border is used on divisional title pages.
Note
Woodcut illustrations throughout.
Note
Printer's device on t.p. (fleur-de-lys bearing initials L.A.); woodcut initials; head- and tail-pieces; marginal notes and manicules.
Note
List of contents of all volumes, together with a list of spurious works, provided on pp. [35]-[40] of 1st vol.
Note
Vol. VIII is an index compiled by Antonio Musa Brasavola.
Note
Printer's details taken from colophon of first volume.
Note
Final page of each volume includes colophon with printer's device and register.
Citation/references note
Adams, G40
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington. Paper has been pasted over this bookplate in all volumes.
Provenance
Binding bears initials "I.B.". It is suggested on a note inserted in the 1st volume that this could be the Elizabethan surgeon John Banister (1532/3-1599?).
Binding
Contemporary dark brown leather; blind tooled triple fillet double border, with gold tooled fleurons at each corner, oval centrepiece and initials "I.B."; remains of iron nails for clasps; blind tooled double fillet decoration on spine, with hatching at head and tail, and gold tooled leaf-shaped fleurons; ms. binders waste visible in joints; contents of each volume written on fore-edge.
Copy-specific note
Note on top left corner of front pastedown of 1st vol.: "Empti. Londinij 1566. 2 Januarii. iiij libris Anglicis et iiij solidis. Eadem die incepi hunc legere. Jam tertio Deus optimus maximus concedat incomparabili sua gratia, ut integrum absolvam, te retineam in sui gloriam et suorum beneficium. Amen.". Marginal notes in the same hand throughout 1st vol.
Subject
Medicine Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Brasavola, A. M., 1500 - 1555 (Antonio Musa).
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--name
Banister, John, 1540 - 1610 former owner?
Added entry--name
Heredi di Lucantonio Giunta printer.
Added entry--place
Italy Venice
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B27918