Volume 2

Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets : Six papers read to the Archæological society of Glasgow April 1882-January 1888 / by John Ferguson.

  • John Ferguson
Date:
1895-1915
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Credit: Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets : Six papers read to the Archæological society of Glasgow April 1882-January 1888 / by John Ferguson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The edition which appeared at Lyons in 1526 seems to have been well known, as it is enumerated by Mercklin, Haller, Eloy, Panckoucke, Haeser, and is included in his list by Billings. His collation is: lxxxvii. ff., 3 1. Sm. 4° \Lugduni, impressum per J. de Cambray, 1526]. There is a copy of this edition in the library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, London.* Mangetus, who took his list from Mercklin, misprints the date 1626, as is pointed out below. Several other editions are enumerated, but while some are authentic, others appear to me to be simply misdated. The following are those which I have observed: 1531 (?), 21 p. 1., 477 pp., 120 Basileae, per H. Petrum. Billings gives this, but it seems to be identical with the undated edition in the British Museum, referred to by me in the previous supplement. An edition of 1536 is mentioned in the Biographie Universelle, T. 42, p. 637. I have little doubt that this is a misprint for 1526. In the first supplement I alluded to an edition of 1539, of which there is a copy in the Museum. It is mentioned by Mercklin, Haller, Eloy, and Haeser. Billings’ collation is: lxxvii. ff., 3 1., 120, Lugduni, J. Flaiollet; which agrees with the copy I have seen. There is a copy of the same date and place, but designated a 4°, in the library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.! Haeser alone is the authority for an edition of 1540, Venice 8°, but from its being placed between those of 1519 and 1526 in his chronology, I have little doubt it is a misprint for 1520. The edition of 1545, Basel in 40, mentioned by Mangetus and by Panckoucke, may possibly be the undated edition I described before. I have not noticed any other reference to such an edition. The edition of 1597, Basel 8°, edited by Caspar Bauhinus, is that most requently spoken of. I have already mentioned the copy in the British Museum. Billings gives the following collation: 7 p. 1., 375 pp., 160 Basileae per S. Henricpetri. In the Museum copy there are eight pre- * Catalogue, London, 1879, vol. ii., p. 486. The title there given is: Opus de curandis cgritudinibus. goth. 1. 4°. Lugd. 1526. t Catalogue, 1885, p. 645.