Shelfmark
Ga.2.06 - Ga.2.07
Title
Medicæ artis principes, post Hippocratem & Galenum. : Græci Latinitate donati, Aretæus, Ruffus Ephesius, Oribasius, Paulus AEgineta, Aëtius, Alex. Trallianus, Actuarius, Nic. Myrepsus. Latini, Corn. Celsus, Scrib. Largus, Marcell. Empiricus. Aliíque præterea, quorum vnius nomen ignoratur. Index non solùm copiosus, sed etiam ordine artificioso omnia digesta habens. Hippocr. aliquot loci cum Corn. Celsi interpretatione.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Geneva] : Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus., Anno M.D.LXVII. [1567]
Physical description
5 pts. in 2 v. ([8] p., 346 col., [13] p., 347-700 col., p. 701-768, 697 col., [4] p., 866, 846, 434 col., [110] p.) : ill. ; 35 cm. (Fo.)
Language
Many of the works are translations into Latin from the original Greek (the Oribasius, for example, translated by Giovanni Battista Rosario, and the Aegineta by Janus Cornarius).
Note
Woodcut initials.
Note
Errata at foot of final page.
Note
Includes index.
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Main body of text printed in double columns.
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Signatures: **⁴ a-mm⁶ AAA-ZZZ⁶ AAAa-FFFf⁶ AAAAa-ZZZZz⁶ AAAAaa-NNNNnn⁶ OOOOoo⁴ aaa-zzz⁸ aaaa-cccc⁸ dddd⁶ AAa-TTt⁶ (TTt6 blank) [alpha]-[iota]⁶.
Note
Place of publication from Adams.
Note
The Oribasius is illustrated with 43 woodcuts, based on those in Gesner's Chirurgia. Zürich, 1555.
Note
Printer's device with motto "Noli altum sapere" on the first title page; all of the subsequent pts. have divisional half-t.p. only; title to pt. 2 reads: "Oribasii Sardiani medici longè excellentissimi opera, tribus tomis digesta, Joanne Baptista Rasario interprete."; title to pt. 3 reads; "Aetii medici Graeci contractæ ex veteribus medicinæ tetrabiblos, hoc est quaternio, id est libri vniuersales quatuor: ..."; pt. 4 has caption title "Actuarii Zachariae filii de spiritu animali libri duo: ..." only; title to pt. 5 reads "Aurelii Cornelii Celsi de re medica libri octo, operis ab eo scripti de artibus, pars sexta.".
Note
Henri Estienne's collection of the most important Greek, Roman and Byzantine medical writers, exclusive of Hippocrates and Galen, through the 13th century.
Citation/references note
Schreiber, F. Estiennes, 167
Citation/references note
Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, p. 129, no. 3
Citation/references note
Adams, S1780
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Contemporary reverse calf, stained green; silver tooled single fillet border, with silver tooled oval cartouche with strapwork as centrepiece; silver tooled single fillet on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled title and double fillet; six raised bands.
Copy-specific note
This copy bound in a different order from that given in Adams: vol. 1: a6-mm6, aaa8-zzz8, aaaa8-cccc8, dddd3; vol. 2: AAA6-ZZZ6, AAAa6-FFFf6, AAa6-TTt6, AAAAa6-ZZZZz6, AAAAaa6-NNNNNnn6, OOOOoo4, [alpha]6-[iota]6. The pagination is similarly at odds with the pagination given above: vol. 1: 346 col., [13] p., 347-700 col., 701-[751] p., 752-767 col., p. 768, 769-833 col.; vol. 2: 697, 434 col., [6] p., 866 col., [110] p.
Copy-specific note
Copy imperfect: lacks title-page and other preliminaries (register **4).
Subject
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Subject
Medicine Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Fugger, Ulricus, 1526 - 1584 printer.
Added entry--name
Estienne, Henri, 1531 - 1598 printer.
Added entry--name
Cornarius, Janus, 1500 - 1558 translator.
Added entry--name
Rasario, Giovanni Battista, 1517 - 1578 translator.
Added entry--name
Oribasius Works. Latin.
Added entry--name
Aetius of Amida. Works. Latin.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Geneva.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B46124