Two pioneers of tropical medicine: Garcia d'Orta and Nicolás Monardes / by C.R. Boxer.

  • Charles Ralph Boxer
Date:
[1963], ©1963
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Credit: Two pioneers of tropical medicine: Garcia d'Orta and Nicolás Monardes / by C.R. Boxer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON THE COLOQUIOS (1563)2 Coloquios dos simples, ejdrogas he comas medtginais da India, ejassi dalguas frutas achadas nella onde sejtratam alguas cousas tocantes amedigina, jpratica, e outras cousas boas, per a saber j cdpostos pello Doutor garfia dorta: fisico / del Rey nosso senhor, vistos pello muyto / Reuerendo senhor, ho ligengiado \ Alexos diaz: falcam desenbar-jgador da casa da supricaga / inq nisi dor nest as /partes./ \Com privilegio do Conde viso Rey.j Impresso em Goa, por loannes / de endem as x. dias de I Abril de 1563. annos. [First line printed in gothic characters.] Collation: 4to. % 6x1 A-Z8, Aa-Ii8; ff. [7], 217 [i.e. [255; 25-27 lines to a page, the majority of which have catchwords; no colophon. Hh8 is blank and is not included in the foliation, which is erratic. Some copies have two extra leaves inserted in the C gathering which supply text omitted in the original printing. The first is signed TJCij and numbered 18, immediately following original fol. 18; the second (cognate) leaf is unsigned but numbered 22, following original fol. 22. They also have, on a strip pasted down at the foot of Diij, one additional line of type, again to supply an omission in the printing of the original text. Location: Vila Vicosa, Portugal (ex-King Manuel II and a British Museum 'duplicate'); Biblioteca Nacional, Lisboa* (2 copies; one in poor condition, the other very defective); Biblioteca da Ajuda, Lisboa*; Torre do Tombo, Lisboa*; Sociedade das Ciencias Medicas, Lisboa* (imperfect); Cdte. Ernesto Vilhena, Lisboa* (imperfect); Biblioteca Publica, Evora (2 copies); Biblioteca Publica, Elvas (ex-A. J. Torres de Carvalho); Bibliotheca da Faculdade de Medicina, Oporto (ex-Dr. Jose Carlos Lopes); Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro* (very badly wormed and with each leaf laid down); Biblio- theque Nationale, Paris; Royal Library, Stockholm (wants the title- page); Leiden University; Harvard University* (the Palha copy); Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.* (the Oliveira Lima copy); British Museum*; Cambridge University (Clusius' own copy with his autograph signature and marginal annotations); Bodleian Library, Oxford* (imperfect); Wellcome Historical Medical Library*; 2 I am indebted to Dr. Noel Poynter for kindly checking and revising this note.