Sales catalogue 533: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/88
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 533: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lyons. Jean Trechsel: a.p. 1488-1498. GANIVET, JEAN—continued. I. First EDITION of the Amicus medicorum >f Jean Ganivet, a Francis- can friar and professor of theology at Vienne-en-Dauphiné. The work completed in 1431 was held in high esteem and was supposed to contain all that was necessary for a physician to know concerning astronomy. As to its contents see Sudhoff, Jatromatematiker vornehmlich im 15. und 10. Jahrhundert, Breslau, 1902. The second work, headed: Celz enarrant gloriam Dei (from the beginning of its text) is also an astrological treatise. The third work, treating of the influence of astrology on medicine, was composed by the Jewish Scholar, Abraham ben Meir ibn Esra (Avenares, Avenerzel) of Toledo (flourished about 1150). The book was much appre- ciated in the West during the Middle Ages, when a very intimate connec- tion was recognized between the heavenly bodies and human ailments. Gondisalvus Toledo, a professor of medicine at Vienne, edited the book for publication, and had it printed at Lyons by Jean Trechsel, Lyons’ best printer. II. SECOND EDITION of the Latin translation of Dioscorides’ famous In re Materia Medica, containing the descriptions of 717 plants, arranged in alphabetical order. A magnificently large and clean copy. [43]
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