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Rolandi ... Lib. III in quibus ... tradit rationem medendi morbis ... humani corporis. -- Rogerii Liber ... de omnium venarum phlebotomia. -- Constantini Africani De humana natura lib. I. -- Item ejusdem De elephantia lib. I. -- Et De remediorum ex animalibus materia lib. I. -- Antonii Gazii quo medicamentorum genere purgationes fieri debeant lib. I., autore Albucase., ABULCASIS. Methodus medendi certa, clara et brevis, pleraque quae ad medicinae partes omnes, praecipue quae ad chirurgiam requiruntur, Libris III exponens. Cum instrumentis ad omnes fere morbos depictis ... Basle, Henric Petri, [colophon:] 1541. Folio, 1t + 6 (episile) + 24 (ndex) + 342 + 1 + 1, with woodcut printer's device on title, repeated on verso of last leaf, and numerous woodcuts of surgical instruments in the text; ownership inscription on title; a good copy in original limp vellum, soiled. The most important of the early Latin editions of Abulcasis' surgical works. "The Basle edition s illustrated with woodcuts which are dissimilar to those in Channing's translation [see item 4] ... The Basle edition also formed the basis of the work of Lucius Leclerc, who published a French translation in 1881" (Campbell, pp. 89-90). Channing's illustration are taken directly from Huntington MS 156 in the Bodleian Library and faithfully reproduce their lack of perspective. In this edition (and in the Augsburg edition of 1532: see item No. 2) Renaissance artists have taken liberties with the originals and introduced perspective. The volume cont ains a number of other tracts, including three by Constantinus Africanus: De humana natura: De elephantia; and De remediorum ex animalibus materia. (For details of Constantinus Africanus, see item No. 14). The inscription on the title reads: "Ex libris Claudi Chabert doctoris medic". The same hand has added twice, once crossed out: "de Francois compr." Chabert is perhaps to be identified with the author of Observations de chirurgie pratique, Paris, 1724, whose first name does not appear otherwise to be known. Adams A71 (two copies, one lacking the colophon leaf); Durling 22 (imperfect); IA 100.200; Parkinson & Lumb 31; Wellcome 12; besides the copy in the National Library of Medicine (Durling) NUC records only tow other copies, New York Academy of Medicine, and John Grear Library, Chicago. |
