Kitāb al-Manṣūrī, Medicine, Medicine--Early works to 1800, R128 .F47 1560
Joannis Matthaei Gradii ... (Rhazes). Ferrari da Gradi, Gianmatteo, commentator. Practica seu commentaria in nonum Rasis ad Almansorem. Venice,... Show moreJoannis Matthaei Gradii ... (Rhazes). Ferrari da Gradi, Gianmatteo, commentator. Practica seu commentaria in nonum Rasis ad Almansorem. Venice, heirs of Lucantonio Giunta, 1560. Folio, 1 l(b) + 1t + 1 + 4 + 84(ind.) + 835 + 1 + 1 l(b), with woodcut printer's device on title and at colophon, printed in double columns, numerous small woodcut initials; contemporary vellum. The sixth and last edition (first, Milan or Pavia, 1472) of the monumental commentary on the ninth book of Rhazes' Liber ad Almansorem by the mid-fifteenth-century professor of medicine at the University of Pavia, edited by Gian Matteo Durastante. A voluminous index appears for the first time in this edition, and a short tract on fevers by Antonius Gradius (with whom Ferrari de Gradi is not to be confused) is appended.Adams R226; Durling 1504 (imperfect); besides the copy in the National Library of Medicine (Durling), NUC records only one other location, Cornell; not in Wellcome, Bird or Parkinson & Lumb: see Garrison-Morton 2192 for the first edition. Main Heritage Shelves General R128 .F47 1560 Book Item-ID: i10164819 BIB-ID: 1018117 Show less
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Alchemy, Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Z233.G4 B73 1544
Commentary on the Islamic alchemist Geber (Jābir ibn Hayyān) by Giovanni Braccesco, alchemist and physician from Brescia. The Esposition is... Show moreCommentary on the Islamic alchemist Geber (Jābir ibn Hayyān) by Giovanni Braccesco, alchemist and physician from Brescia. The Esposition is arranged as a dialogue between instructor and student on how to guard against infirmities of the "humid radical." Also included is Braccesco's "Legna della vita...." which discusses the means by which man's ancestors lived 900 years. The "legna della vita" or "wood of life" is also called the Universal Balsam or Panacea, which cures all diseases and maintains youth. di misser Giouanni Bracescho da Iorci noui, nella qvale si dichiarano molti nobilissimi secreti della natura ... Text printed in italic type. Leaves 74r-83r: Dialogo di M. Giouanni Braccescho da Iorci noui, nominato il legno della uita: nel quale si dichiara qual fusse la medicina per la quale gli primi padri, uiueano nouecento anni. Show less
