Hippocrates

folio (303 x 205mm.), text in Latin and Greek, printer's device on title-page and last leaf, early annotations, nineteenth-century red morocco gilt by Clarke, armorial device of Herbert Norman Evans in gilt on covers, his crest at foot of spine, edges gilt, first few leaves slightly browned, binding slightly scuffed

Herbert Norman Evans (1802-1877), arms on covers

Durling 2316; Norman 1077; Renouard 1526:1; Texas 216; UCLA 209; Wellcome 3173

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First edition in Greek of the Hippocratic corpus.

Published a year after the first edition in Latin, the Aldine Greek edition of Hippocrates was based on a fifteenth-century manuscript (now Paris, BNF, MS gr. 2141), incorporating corrections from a second manuscript (now Venice, Bibl. Marciana, MS gr. 269) which had belonged to Cardinal Bessarion. The text of the Aldine edition marked a considerable advance over the Latin translation of Marco Fabio Calvo in that “it repaired a considerable number of accidental omissions and one long repetition that Calvus made because he followed only one manuscript. Moreover; by presenting the original text, it laid the necessary foundation for all further philological and medical study of the corpus” (Durling).