Accession number
PML 76428
Creator
Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1501-1577.
Published
Venetijs : In officina Erasmiana ; Apud Vincentium Valgrisium, 1554.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles F. Morgan and Mrs. Samuel W. Lambert, Jr., in memory of Dr. Samuel W. Lambert, Jr., 1980.
Notes
A revision and enlargement of the "discorsi" originally published in Mattioli's 1544 translation entitled, Di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo libri cinque della historia & materia medicinale.
Date in colophon: mense Ianuario, 1554.
Includes Mattioli's translation of the original Greek text, based for the most part on that of Jean Ruel; the 6th book comprises the De venenis and De venenatis animalibus, in some versions called books 6-9.
Includes index.
Date in colophon: mense Ianuario, 1554.
Includes Mattioli's translation of the original Greek text, based for the most part on that of Jean Ruel; the 6th book comprises the De venenis and De venenatis animalibus, in some versions called books 6-9.
Includes index.
Description
[48], 707, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 34 cm (fol.)
Provenance
Adolf Occo II (active 1532-44), gift inscription from Johannes Moibanus (1527-1562): "[Greek inscription.] Doctrina et virtute clariss[imo] viro D. Adolpho Occoni iuniori: Philosophiae ac Medicinae Doctori Excel[entissime] do[m]i[n]o et amico suo honorando dono misit Io[hannes] Moibanus. Venetijs Anno M.D.L IIII." (title page); Augsburg, St. Crucis monastery, inscription: "Ex libris Monasterij S. Crucis auge. Vindel." (title page).
Binding
Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin; in PML case.
Classification
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