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Fernel, Scribonius Largus, Turini
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Description
- A volume containing four sixteenth-century medical works, comprising:
- Paper
FERNEL, Jean. De abditis rerum causa libri duo... Aeditio secunda. Paris: Jean Dupuys, 1551, woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso, woodcut initials, index misbound, occasional browning, ink stain on G1
SCRIBONIUS LARGUS. De compositionibus medicamentorum liber unus [edited by Jean Ruel]. (Paris: Simon du Bois, 1528), woodcut initials, woodcut device on final verso, [Garrison-Morton 1785, Wechel 1528 edition; Wellcome 5893]
TURINI, Andrea. Opera. Rome: in platea Parionis (Girolamo Cartolari, August) 1545, woodcut initials, [Censimento 16 CNCE 26196], occasional light browning, T4 torn into text without loss
TURINI, Andrea. Defensio contra Marcum Antonium Montisianum Geminiatensem, quod non in omni febre putrida conveniat missio sanguinis. Rome: (Girolamo Cartolari), 1549, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, [Censimento 16 CNCE 54586, listing 2 copies]
4 works in one volume, folio (281 x 192mm.), eighteenth-century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, lower joint cracking at head, small scrape on lower cover
SCRIBONIUS LARGUS. De compositionibus medicamentorum liber unus [edited by Jean Ruel]. (Paris: Simon du Bois, 1528), woodcut initials, woodcut device on final verso, [Garrison-Morton 1785, Wechel 1528 edition; Wellcome 5893]
TURINI, Andrea. Opera. Rome: in platea Parionis (Girolamo Cartolari, August) 1545, woodcut initials, [Censimento 16 CNCE 26196], occasional light browning, T4 torn into text without loss
TURINI, Andrea. Defensio contra Marcum Antonium Montisianum Geminiatensem, quod non in omni febre putrida conveniat missio sanguinis. Rome: (Girolamo Cartolari), 1549, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, [Censimento 16 CNCE 54586, listing 2 copies]
4 works in one volume, folio (281 x 192mm.), eighteenth-century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, lower joint cracking at head, small scrape on lower cover
Catalogue Note
Fernel's treatise, written in 1548, is "an exposition of the beliefs of the educated citizen of that period, what he thinks about God, nature, the soul, matter, medicine, the preternatural etc., as well as a plea for observation and common sense in the experienced world of nature, but it also admits the existence of a world of incorporeal beings between earth and heaven" (DSB IV, p.585).
Scribonius Largus (fl. 40 AD) was the first writer to describe how to prepare opium.
Turini (c. 1473-c. 1543) was physician to Popes Clement VII and Paul III as well as Louis XII and François I.