Paradin, Claude ( -1573) (& others)

Grosser-Herren Denck-Sprüche und andere sinnreiche Symbola nach Anleitung des Herrn Paradini, und andere gelehrten Leute. Title within water-colour historiated wreath; illustrated by 217 water-colour symbolical pictures.

1689

1 volume 1 l. + 288 pp. 4to. 22 × 161/2 cm. Original calf binding with clasps, part of one missing. Title and first leaf cut down.

Purchased 1911.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

The work is based on Claude Paradin's 'Dévises héroïques', which was published in 1557.