Petri Andreae Matthioli Senensis medici, Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia, iam denuo ab ipso autore recogniti, et locis plus mille aucti. Adiectis magnis, ac nouis plantarum, ac animalium iconibus supra priores editiones longè pluribus, ad uiuum delineatis. Accesserunt quoque ad margines Graeci contextus quàm plurimi, ex antiquissimis codicibus desumpti, qui Dioscoridis ipsius deprauatum lectionem restituunt. Cum locupletissimis indicibus, tum ad rem herbariam, tum medicamentariam pertinentibus.
Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli (1501-1577)
Category
Books
Date
1565
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3219452
Summary
Bibliographic description
[174], 1459, [13] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (woodcuts), port. ; fol. Woodcut illustrations on pp. 1080, 1081 and 1093 are hand-coloured. Provenance: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. either William Windham II (1717-1761) or William Windham III (1750-1810)]. Manuscript former shelfmarks in pencil on front pastedown: "O8" and "N8" (both crossed-out). Manuscript former shelfmark in ink on rear pastedown: "O8". Binding: seventeenth-century[?] full sprinkled sheepskin (very worn); sewn on five raised bands; faint manuscript title on spine. Redf sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli (1501-1577), author Dioscorides Pedanius of Anazarbos (c.40-90 AD) , author Vincenzo Valgrisi (fl. 1540-1572), printer