The "De morbo quem gallicum nuncupant" (1497) of Coradinus Gilinus / by Cyril C. Barnard.

  • Cyril Cuthbert Barnard
Date:
1930
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Credit: The "De morbo quem gallicum nuncupant" (1497) of Coradinus Gilinus / by Cyril C. Barnard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    traditional beliefs in astrology and in the ancient writers on medicine, respectively. •From its opening words it appears that GHILINO’s tract was written in 1497 and it was probably printed the same year. It was issued as a small quarto brochure consisting of only four unsigned leaves, printed in Gothic type without note of place, date or printer’s name. SUDHOFF [1] gives the printer’s name as Andreas Belfortis of Ferrara. The publication of the Gesamt- katalog [21] has not yet progressed as fas as the letter G, but from information kindly furnished to me by the Prussian „Kom- mission” responsible for that work, the compilers have the printer’s name noted down in their files as Laurentius de Rubeis, also of Ferrara. Jordanus Zilettus reprinted the full text in 1566 in the first volume of the Venetian Collection by LUISINUS [2], which proves that he had access to a printed copy, for those works that he printed from manuscripts were placed in the second volume. Since that time copies of the work seem to have become very scarce, for none was known to ASTRUC [5] when he wrote in 1740* It is not mentioned in any of the bibliographies of incunabula such as Hain and COPINGER [23]. Dr. STOCKTON- Hough [29] records it, but his only authority is GlRTANNER [6], the Swiss physician, from the form of whose quotations it is clear that he had not seen the original. Even SUDHOFF did not mention it in his Erstlinge [30] and Friikgeschichte [31]. Only four copies are known to the Kommission fur den Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, viz. those in the University Libraries at Jena and Leipzig, in the Vatican at Rome and in the Library of the College of Fhysicians of Philadelphia. There is also a copy, which I have had the opportunity of examining, in the Wellcome Research Library, London. I have been unable to trace the existence of any other copy. The original text has now been made accessible to all in the excellent facsimile reproduction in Vol. III. of SlGERlST’s Monu¬ menta Medica series, with an introduction by Karl SUDHOFF [i]. In making the translation which I append to this article I have compared the original text carefully with the reprint in the \ enetian Collection of LuiSINUS [2]. This comparison revealed many discrepancies. Where these involve a serious difference in