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Joannis 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 |
