Shelfmark
Fc.2.05 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Gl.2.02 (Copy 2)
Author
Title
Petri Andreae Matthioli, medici senensis Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, De medica materia. Adiectis quam plurimis plantarum & animalium imaginibus, eodem authore.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, De medica materia
Publication, distribution, etc.
Venetijs, : in officina Erasmiana, apud Vincentium Valgrisium., M. D. LIIII. [1554]
Physical description
[48], 707, [1] p. : ill. ; 32 cm. (Fol.)
Note
Includes Mattioli's translation of Dioscorides, largely based on that of Jean Ruel. The sixth book is the De venenis and De venenatis animalibus, in some versions called books 6-9.
Note
The Latin commentaries are a revision and enlargement of the Italian "Discorsi" published originally with the 1544 edition of the five books of Mattioli's Italian translation (Libri cinque della historia & materia medicinale) and with the 1548 edition of the six books (Il Dioscoride dell'eccellente dottor medico m. P. Andrea Matthioli).
Note
Printer's device on t.p.: snake wound round a wooden T, bearing legend "Vincent".
Note
Illustrated woodcut initials; woodcut illustrations of plants (half-page width) and animals (full page width); marginal notes and line numbers.
Note
Name of each plant or animal given in Greek and Latin.
Citation/references note
Adams, D665
Citation/references note
EDIT16, CNCE 37627
Provenance
(Copy 1) Donation inscription on t.p.: Socius Collegij Joh[ann]is in Vniversitate Cantabrigie dono dedit [...] libru[m] Guil. Guilbert eiusdem Coll. Socio. 26 Novemb. 1566. An accompanying note adds that a copy of Galen in 3 vols. published by Froben in 1561 is still held in the library at St. John's Cambridge. According to the ODNB, Gilbert left the bulk of his library to the Royal College of Physicians, where it was later destroyed by the Fire in 1666.
Provenance
(Copy 1) Ownership inscription on t.p.: Guil. Baronsdale. William Gilbert was Baronsdale's successor as President of the Royal College of Physicians.
Provenance
(Copy 1) Ownership inscription and motto on t.p.: Bien fort à faire. T Bowes.
Provenance
(Copy 1) Two further ownership inscriptions on t.p., indecipherable.
Provenance
(Copy 1) Booklabel recording donation to Eton College by John Reynolds in 1751.
Provenance
(Copy 2) Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown. Cut-out with the ink drawing of a cross next to the number 2 was glued onto the pastedown. Title page shows a few erasures; the year, 1568, has been crossed out but not erased.
Binding
(Copy 1) 18th-century quarter dark brown sheep; boards covered with light blue paper; gold tooled roller decoration on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters; five raised bands; earlier marbled paper semi-stiff wrapper survives at rear.
Binding
(Copy 2) Early modern speckled ?calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with gilt roll on board edges. Spine with six sewing supports, decorated with gilt tools and titling ("Matthiol in Dioscor").Textblock trimmed and sprinkled red and green. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaf) and undecorated paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
(Copy 1) Ms. annotations on t.p. verso, and final page, with occasional notes in the text. Some plants have been labelled with their vernacular name, e.g. Basyll, Rocket, Goose Grass. Botanical specimen pressed between leaves *4 and *5 (rocket?), and leaves y1 and y2 (watercress). Previous shelfmark: Ff.1.9.
Copy-specific note
(Copy 2) Bookseller's ms. notes on front flyleaf. Latin note on title page. Pen trials on last leaf verso. Former ECL shelfmark: DDk.4.13.
Subject
Dioscorides Pedanius of Anazarbos. De medica materia
Subject
Medicine Early works to 1800.
Subject
Botany, Medical Early works to 1800.
Subject
Botany Pre-Linnean works.
Subject
Toxicology Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Dioscorides Pedanius of Anazarbos.
Added entry--name
Ruel, Jean, 1474 - 1537 translator.
Added entry--name
Valgrisi, Vincenzo, fl. 1540 - 1572 printer.
Added entry--name
Gilbert, William, 1540 - 1603 former owner.
Added entry--name
Baronsdale, William, ? - d. 1608 former owner.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--name
St. John's College (University of Cambridge) former owner.
Added entry--title
De medica materia
Added entry--place
Italy Venice.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B27931