Dictionarium medicum, vel, Expositiones vocum medicinaliu[m], ad verbum excerptae ex Hippocrate, Aretaeo, Galeno, Oribasio, Rufo Ephesio, Aetio, Alex. Tralliano, Paulo Aegineta, Actuario, Corn. Celso. Cum Latina interpretatione. Lexica duo in Hippocratem huic dictionario praefixa sunt, vnum, Erotiani, nunqua[m] antea editu[m]: alteru[m], Galeni, multo emendatius quàm antea excusum.
Henri Estienne (1531-1598)
Category
Books
Date
1564
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007971
Summary
Bibliographic description
608, [28] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5709. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price in pencil on front fly-leaf: "6s". Manuscript booksellers' codes on front pastedown: "i" [underlined] and "c c/n". Manuscript inscriptions on title page: one in a sixteenth or seventeenth-century hand, crossed through and illegible; and in a seventeenth-century hand "Eduardi Greene". Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled calf; two blind double fillets forming a border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; brown leather label with gilt title on spine. Head of spine and headband torn off. Burnished edges.
Makers and roles
Henri Estienne (1531-1598) Conrad Gessner (1516-1565), editor Erotianus , author Hippocrates (c.460-377 BC), author Aretaeus of Cappadocia (fl.1st century AD), author Galen (c.130 - c.201), author Oribasius (c.320-403), author Rufus of Ephesus (fl.1st century AD) , author Aetius of Amida, author Alexander of Tralles (c.525 - c.605), author Paulus Aegineta (c.625-c.690), author Joannes Actuarius (c.1275 - c.1330), author Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c.25-c.50 BC), author