Galeni Pergamensis De temperamentis : et De inaeqvali intemperie libri tres, Thomas Linacro Anglo interprete. Opus non medicis modo, sed et philosophis oppido q[uem] necessariu[m] nunc primum prodit in lucem cvm gratia & priuilegio / impressum apud praeclaram Cantabrigiam per Joannem Siberch, anno MDXXI : reproduced in exact facsimile : with an introduction by Joseph Frank Payne.
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- 1881
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Credit: Galeni Pergamensis De temperamentis : et De inaeqvali intemperie libri tres, Thomas Linacro Anglo interprete. Opus non medicis modo, sed et philosophis oppido q[uem] necessariu[m] nunc primum prodit in lucem cvm gratia & priuilegio / impressum apud praeclaram Cantabrigiam per Joannem Siberch, anno MDXXI : reproduced in exact facsimile : with an introduction by Joseph Frank Payne. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![work. It may even not be without some significance that a splendid copy of this edition, printed on vellum (and as com- plete in this state, according to Dibdin, of the highest rarity), once belonged to Linacre, and is now, bearing his autograph, in the Hbrary of New College, Oxford. In the dedication prefixed to the second volume of this work, Aldus boasts of the pains he had taken to secure a correct text, Ut tum querendis optimis et antiquis libris atque ea^.em in re multiplicibus tum conferendis castigandisque exemplari- bus quse dilaceranda impressoribus traderentur, perirentque ut pariens vipera, in manus hominum venirent emendatissima. Id ita sit necne sunt mihi gravissimi testes in tota fere Italia, et prsecipue in Venetiis Thomas Anglicus, homo et grsece et latine peritissimus prsecellensque in doctrinarum omnium dis- ciplinis. This volume is dated February, 1497, the first volume 1495, dates which are quite reconcilable with the time when Linacre is believed to have been at Venice. On leaving Venice, Linacre went to Padua and probably made some stay there: since it was here that he graduated as Doctor of Medicine, and here he must have acquired the greatest part of his medical knowledge. Padua was at that time one of the chief seats of medical knowledge in Europe, and became shortly afterwards one of the first schools of anatomy. Its reputation in both departments was long pre- served under the enlightened patronage of the Venetian Senate, Many students from Northern Europe naturally flocked thither, and among them a few from England and Scodand. Linacre was not the first eminent English scholar who graduated in medicine at Padua; the once celebrated Phreas [Wells], who left Balliol for Italy, and died at Rome, havmg preceded him by half a century or more; but he was](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21902835_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
