Books from the Library of the Medical Society of London : an exhibition 14 January to 3 April 1985 / [compiled by John Symons].

  • Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Date:
1985
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Credit: Books from the Library of the Medical Society of London : an exhibition 14 January to 3 April 1985 / [compiled by John Symons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Incunabula NICOLAUS SALERNITANUS Antidotarium. Venice: N. Jenson. 1471. Klebs 703.1. The first printed pharmacopoeia. This and the Liber servitoris of Abulcasis bound in the same volume - also a pharmacological work - are the two earliest printed books in the collection. PETRUS DE ABANO Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et praecipue medicorum. Mantua: P. Septemcastrensis & J. Vurster for L. Carmelita. 1472. Klebs 773.1. A collection of questions intended to organise and harmonise the opinions of Greek, Latin, Jewish and Arabic writers, with particular emphasis on medicine. A finely illuminated copy. Matthaeus SILVATICUS Liber pandectarum medicinae. Venice: J. de Colonia & J. Manthen. 1480. Klebs 919.5. A dictionary of medicinal plants with names in Arabic, Greek and Latin. Elaborately decorated with, in the margin of the first page, a heraldic shield supported by a 'wild man'. BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS De proprietatibus rerum. Cologne: J. Koelhoff. 1481. Klebs 149.4. An early printed edition of the popular medieval encyclopaedic work, covering medicine among other topics. HORTUS SANITATIS Ortus sanitatis. [Strassburg: J. Prflss. 1496.] Klebs 509.2. A fine copy of this illustrated herbal with coloured woodcuts and initials. -11-