Medicae artis principes, post Hippocratem & Galenum. Graeci Latinitate donati, Aretaeus, Ruffus Ephesius, Oribasius, Paulus AEgineta, Aëtius, Alex. Trallianus, Actuarius, Nic. Myrepsus. Latini, Corn. Celsus, Scrib. Largus, Marcell. Empiricus. Aliíque praeterea, quorum vnius nomen ignoratur. Index non solùm copiosus, sed etiam ordine artificio omnia digesta habens. Hippocr. aliquot loci cum Corn. Celsi interpretatione. Henr. Stephani de hac sua editione tetrastichon.
Henri Estienne (1531-1598)
Category
Books
Date
1567
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3199945
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 pts. in 1 v. : ill. (woodcuts) ; fol. Running number: 5499. Title page mounted on blank leaf. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark on front pastedown: "B.4.7". Manuscript book or inventory number on front free endpaper: "(73)". Binding: seventeenth-century full blind-tooled vellum over boards; double fillet border, mitred at the corners to a single panel of double and single fillets; large strapwork centrepiece stamp; two pairs of tawed leather ties; blind-tooling on spine; gilt title on brown goatskin label on spine: 'Medicae Artis Principes, a Stephano'. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Henri Estienne (1531-1598), editor Aretaeus of Cappadocia (fl.1st century AD) Rufus of Ephesus (fl.1st century AD) Scribonius Largus (c.1-c.50) Oribasius (c.320-403) Janus Cornarius (1500-1558) Alban Thorer (1489-1550) Paulus Aegineta (c.625-c.690) Aetius of Amida Marcellus Empiricus (fl.4th/5th century) Nicollaus Myrepsus (fl.13th century) Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c.25-c.50 BC) Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566) Johann Guenther von Andernach (1505-1574) Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575). Giovanni Battista Rosario (1517-1578) Alexander of Tralles (c.525 - c.605), author Henri Estienne (1531-1598), publisher