Medicine, Medicine--Early works to 1800, RB24 .I266 1543
[SERAPION, the elder]. Iani Damasceni Decapolitani summae inter Arabes autoritatis medici, therapeutice methodi, hoc est, curandi artis libri VII.... Show more[SERAPION, the elder]. Iani Damasceni Decapolitani summae inter Arabes autoritatis medici, therapeutice methodi, hoc est, curandi artis libri VII. partim Albano Torino Vitodurano paraphrste, partim Gerardo iatro Cremonensi mataphraste ... Basle, Henric Petri [1543] Small folio, 1 l(b) + 1t + 1 + 8(pref.) + 14(ind.) + 491 + 1device) + 1 l(b), with woodcut printer's device on verso of colophon leaf; contemporary blind tooled calf, rebacked, new endleaves, clasps restored. First edition of Alban Thorer's (Albanus Torinus) paraphrase of books I-IV of Serapion's Therapeutica methodi, the remainder in the translation of Gerard of Cremona, with the Aphorisms published for the first time. Serapion the elder was a Christian physician who flourished in Damascus in the second half of the ninth century. He wrote, in Syriac, two medical compilations, one in 12, the other (as here) in 7 books. The latter was several times translated into Arabic, and thence into Latin by Gerard of Cremona. Serapion's theraputics were "very popular in the Middle Ages. Sezgin, III, pp. 240-42. Adams I14; Bird 1294; Choulant p. 347; Durling 4778; Parkinson & Lumb 2278; Wellcome 4272. Main Heritage Shelves General RB24 .I266 1543 Book Item-ID: i10104847 BIB-ID: 1012120 Show less
