First Giunta edition, edited by Giovanni Battista Nicolini of Salo, of the Canones of Pseudo-Mesuë, a very influential early Latin medical text, possibly written by a Christian Jacobite doctor who took the name of the 9th-century Arab doctor, Ibn Māsawayh, Yūḥannā (d. 857), transcribing the Arabic name in Latin as Mesue. This would explain why no originals in Arabic of this text have ever been found, and why this author is known as Pseudo-Mesuë, or Mesue the Younger (925-1015?). This edition of 1527 includes the "Canones universales", and "De simplicibus" on the physical principles and prescribing of purgatives, as well as medical and pharmacological works by other authors such as Mondino dei Luzzi, Christophorus de Honestis, Petrus de Abano, Niccolò da Salerno, Bulcasis (Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī), Gentile da Foligno, Matthaeus Platearius, Francesco di Piedimonte, and Saladino Ferro. For discussion of the problems of identification of Pseudo-Mesue, cf. Die Canones des Pseudo-Mesue / Sieglinde Lieberknecht. Stuttgart : Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1995. Imprint from colophon, which reads: "Sit laus & gloria excelso Deo, qui nos i[m]mensa gratiaru[m] suaru[m] amplitudine ad tantorum operum in huius voluminis fronte pollicitorum complementum per uenire [con]cessit. Que diligenti Joa[nnes] Baptiste de Nicolinis brixiani salodie[n]sis elucubratio[n]e castigata post vniuersas eo[rum] impressiones in flore[n]tissima Uenetiarum vrbe Domini Luce Antonij Iunta florentini huius artis curiosissimi sumptib[us] excusa su[n]t, anno ante Chr[ist]i adue[n]tu[m] MDxxvij Marcij idibus." Prefatory epistle to Cornelius Gryphius by editor Giovanni Battista Nicolini on verso of title page, dated in Venice, March 15, 1527. Title-page in red and black; printed in bold gothic type, in two columns; printed marginal captions. Woodcuts: large printer's device on title page in red, repeated on verso of last leaf in black (the Giunta fleur-de-lis, initialled "L.A."; large white-on-white historiated initials; smaller ornamental foliated and historiated initials on white or black backgrounds. Signatures: a-z⁸ & ⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-X⁸ Y-Z⁶. Includes index. This edition not in Wellcome cat. of printed books (cf. nos. 4276-4277), Waller, Osler, BM STC Italian, or Adams.
Contents:
(from t. p.) Mundini de Lentijs super Canones eius vniuersales expositio luculentissima -- Christofori Georgii florentini super eius Antidotarium expositio clarissima -- Christofori eiusdem tractatus de aqua & ptisana ordeacea conficienda -- Petri apponensis fructuose additiones -- Nicolai medicorum expertissimi antidotarium paruum -- Joa[n]nis de Sancto Amando super idem Nicolai Antidotarium expositio facu[n]dissima -- De quid pro quo i[n] De simplicibus in eade[m] operatione co[m]municantibus assu[m]matio -- Synonimorum medicinalium i[n] nominum ide[m] medicinale significantiu[m] tractatus -- Bulcasis siue Seruitoris medicorum profundissimi libellus copiosissimus -- Praeclarum Saladini pro aromatarijs compendium -- Gentilis Fulginei de dosi medicinarum inuestiganda libellus -- Alchi[n]di medico[rum] p[er]spicacissimi de medicinaru[m] co[m]posita[rum] gradib[us] iuestiga[n]dis libellus -- Subtilissimus Habe[n]guefit [Ibn Wāfid] de simplicibus medicinis libellus -- Egregius Apulei medici antiquissimi de po[n]deribus & mensuris libellus -- Antidotorum in Mesue & Nicolai Antidotarijs contentorum index -- Remediorum varijs egritudinibus conferentium summula copiosissima -- Additiones noue ad multa i[n] Mesue & Nicolai antidotarijs declara[n]da q[uae] ab alijs era[n]t dimissa.
Indexed by:
Camerini, P. Annali dei Giunti, no. 324 Johnston, S.H. Cleveland herbal, botanical & horticultural colls., no. 37 NLM 16th cent., 3124 Maittaire, M. Annales typographici, 2:687 Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, p. XXVI, no. 90 EDIT 16 CNCE 29305
OCLC:
(OCoLC)175313220
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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