Astrology, Arab, Astrology, Arab--Early works to 1500, BF1714.A6 Q33 1485
interpretatvs a Ioanne Hispalensi ; scriptvmque in evndem a Iohanne Saxonie editvm vtili serie connexvum incipivnt ; correctu[m] artiu[m]medicine... Show moreinterpretatvs a Ioanne Hispalensi ; scriptvmque in evndem a Iohanne Saxonie editvm vtili serie connexvum incipivnt ; correctu[m] artiu[m]medicine doctorem dominum Bartholomeum de Alten. Signatures: aall⁸mm¹⁰ Third edition of Isagoge, and first with the commentary of Johannes de Saxonia, probably based on the Latin translation by Joannes Hispalensis. Roman and Gothic types, 97 leaves unfoliated in manuscript stating at f. 142, paragraph marks supplied in red, woodcut illustrations (lacking initial blank, light dampstaining, some margins slightly wormed). Contemporary German binding, brown sheep cover wooden boards, the sides divided by triple diagonal fillets into lozenge compartments, in each a stamp of a rosette or flower, hatched roll tool border of lozenges containing fleurs-de-lys, brass corner and centre bosses, pastedowns of strips from 14th -15th century ma uscripts (one corner boss replaced from another early binding, new clasps, another work removed, covers wormed) Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Main Heritage Display General BF1714.A6 Q33 1485 Book Item-ID: i10136952 BIB-ID: 1015331 Show less
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