Shelfmark
Ga.4.02
Author
Title
Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, medici Caesarei epistola, rationem modumq[ue] propinandi radicis Chynæ decocti, quo nuper inuictissimus Carolus v. Imperator usus est, pertractans: & præter alia quædam, epistolæ cuiusdam ad Iacobum Syluium sententiam recensens, ueritatis ac potissimum humanæ fabricæ studiosis perutilem: quum quî hactenus in illa nimium Galeno creditum sit, facile commonstret. Accessit quoq[ue] locuples rerum & uerborum in hac ipsa epistola memorabilium, index. Cum gratia & priuilegio Imperiali ad quinquennium.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Basileæ. : [ex officina Ioannis Oporini, Anno salutis humanæ M D XLVI. Mense octobri]. [October 1546]
Physical description
404 [i.e. 204] p. : port. ; 30 cm (Fo.)
Note
Signatures: A4-Dd4, [*]2.
Note
Large woodcut historiated initials, many showing putti engaged in medicinal practice; woodcut portrait of the author on B1r; marginal annotations; printer's emblem on verso of final leaf.
Note
Printer and imprint date taken from colophon.
Note
Includes index.
Binding
Twentieth century quarter vellum; light blue paper covering boards; black stamped lettering on spine; traces of earlier red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Some marginal annotations in an early modern hand.
Subject
Human anatomy Early works to 1800.
Subject
Materia medica Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Oporinus, Joannes, 1507 - 1568 printer.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basel.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B46307