The German Dominican Burchard of Mount Sion wrote down his experiences while or after spending several years in the Holy Land before, during and... Show moreThe German Dominican Burchard of Mount Sion wrote down his experiences while or after spending several years in the Holy Land before, during and after 1283. His work became a late medieval popular success and his description, although little studied, is considered a key document that influenced theperception of Palestine in both text and image, in travel accounts and maps until far into the sixeenth century. This edition bears no illustrations nor maps of the region and it is preceded by a summary of contents followed by an index of terms of 48 unnumbered pages. accipe Borchardi. Main Heritage Shelves General DS106 .B87 1519 Book Item-ID: i21508756 BIB-ID: 1950295 Show less
Abulcasis. Liber theoricae necnon practicae Alsaharavii ... qui vulgo Acararius dicitur. Augsburg, Sigismund Grimm and Marc Wirsung, 1519. Folio,... Show moreAbulcasis. Liber theoricae necnon practicae Alsaharavii ... qui vulgo Acararius dicitur. Augsburg, Sigismund Grimm and Marc Wirsung, 1519. Folio, 2 + 1t + 11 + 319 (in roman) + 1 (device) + 3 + 3 leav (bind), title printed in red and black and with a fine large woodcut depicting six physicians at a table in disputation over a large book opened before them by Hans Burgkmair, fine woodcut printer's device at end; contemporary pigskin backed wooden boards, the spine overlaid with eighteenth century calf, gilt. First edition of the medical and therapeutical section of Abu l-Qasim al-Zahrawi's medical encyclopaedia, Kitab al-Tasrif, in the Latin version by Gerard of Cremona. "Completed about 1000 A. D., [the Kitab al-Tasrif] was the result of almost fifty years of medical education and experience. In it he discussed not only medicine and surgery, but also midwifery, pharmaceutical and cosmetic preparations, materia medica, cookery and dietetics, weights and measures, technical terminology, medical chemistry, therapeutics, and psychotherapy. DSB, 14, 584-85; Sezgin, III, pp. 323-35. Bird 2435; Durling 21; Garrison-Morton 3048 (the earliest description of haemophilia): IA 100.199; Proctor 10896; Waller 175; Wellcome 11. Main Heritage Shelves General R128.3 .Z34 1519 Book Item-ID: i10137026 BIB-ID: 1015338 Show less
Pharmacy, Pharmacy--Early works to 1800, RS79 .I266 1519
Text in Gothic letters in double columns, some woodcut initials, and spaces with guide letters; washed; recased in its original calf backed wooden... Show moreText in Gothic letters in double columns, some woodcut initials, and spaces with guide letters; washed; recased in its original calf backed wooden boards, four clasps, the thongs renewed. The penultimate incunable edition of what "remained for centuries the standard text-book of pharmacy in the West" (Sarton), with the commentary of Mondino, the great anatomist, and other texts including Abulcasis' Liber servitoris. Mesue "was for centuries the authority on the composition of medicaments. The book was not only in use in practically every European pharmacy but in addition became the basis of the later official pharmacopoeias. The Grabadin [or Antidotarium, contained here] is, as Sudhoff calls it, 'the pharmacological quintessence of Arabian therapeutics' and contains the entire armamentarium of compounded medicines which we owe to the Arabians. The arrangement is like that of the later pharmacopoeias. The compounded medicines are divided into groups according to their forms - confections, juleps, syrups, etc. - the monographs containing directions for the preparation of the respective products and also notes on their medical uses" (Edward Kremers and George Urdang, History of Pharmacy, 1940, p. 21). Much of the basic terminology of pharmacy, words such as julep and syrup, derives from the Arabic. EI, III, pp. 872-73; Sezgin, III, pp. 231-36. H *IIIII; Choulant p. 355; Goff M516; Klebs 680.14; Sarton I 728. Imprint from colophon. Includes Registrum Capital spaces with guide letters. Gilbert de Villiers' woodcut device Main Heritage Shelves General RS79 .I266 1519 Book Item-ID: i22816938 BIB-ID: 2427893 Show less
