1549 First Lyon edition (1549–1550)
MEDICAMENTORUM OPUS
in sectiones quadraginta octo digestum
By Nicolaus Myrepsus (Leonhart Fuchs)
Author Bio: Nicholas Myrepsos (or Nicolaus Myrepsus; flourished c. 1240–80) was a Byzantine physician known chiefly for his compendium on medical science which is still extant.
Synopsis: Translation of Dynameron, translated and annotated by Leonhart Fuchs, a pharmaceutical treatise taken partly from the Antidotarium of Nicolaus Salernitanus, with whom Nicolaus, Myrepsus since has been confused. Cf. Sarton, G. Intro. hist. science, v. 2, p. 1094; Ferguson, J. Bib. chemica, v. 2, p. 123 and 223. It consists of 48 sections, containing more than 2500 medical formulae, arranged according to their form and object. It is chiefly compiled from former writers, and contains many superstitious remedies. It remained the principal pharmaceutical code of the Parisian medical faculty until 1651. Includes the famed Aurea Alexandrina, a complex compound remedy containing gold; it appears in Myrepsus and also in the Antidotarium Nicolai tradition. It is called Aurea from the gold which enters its composition, and Alexandrina for the physician Nicolaus Myresus Alexandrinus, who invented it. It was considered to be a good preservative against colic and apoplexy.
Format: Vellum, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Language: Latin
Published By: Balthazarem Arnolletum, Lyon
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Good - Printer's woodcut device to title (imprint dated 1549), translator’s name on title-page obliterated in ink; otherwise legible, colophon to verso of final leaf dated 1550, some worm trails to several leaves of text and mostly to margins, some toning and scattered spotting, lacking front free endpaper with upper hinge broken, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, 8vo about 16.6 × 10.3 cm
Collation:
[12] leaves, 712 pages, [8] leaves; signatures given as a8, bb4, a–z8, A–Y8, Z4
Complete with all preliminary leaves and final index leaves; pagination checked.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
References:
Durling/NLM 3346
Wellcome I, 5353
(see also) Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise; BnF FRBNF31000910
NLM catalogue record.
SKU: BTETM0002625
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
1549 First Lyon edition (1549–1550)
MEDICAMENTORUM OPUS
in sectiones quadraginta octo digestum
By Nicolaus Myrepsus (Leonhart Fuchs)
Author Bio: Nicholas Myrepsos (or Nicolaus Myrepsus; flourished c. 1240–80) was a Byzantine physician known chiefly for his compendium on medical science which is still extant.
Synopsis: Translation of Dynameron, translated and annotated by Leonhart Fuchs, a pharmaceutical treatise taken partly from the Antidotarium of Nicolaus Salernitanus, with whom Nicolaus, Myrepsus since has been confused. Cf. Sarton, G. Intro. hist. science, v. 2, p. 1094; Ferguson, J. Bib. chemica, v. 2, p. 123 and 223. It consists of 48 sections, containing more than 2500 medical formulae, arranged according to their form and object. It is chiefly compiled from former writers, and contains many superstitious remedies. It remained the principal pharmaceutical code of the Parisian medical faculty until 1651. Includes the famed Aurea Alexandrina, a complex compound remedy containing gold; it appears in Myrepsus and also in the Antidotarium Nicolai tradition. It is called Aurea from the gold which enters its composition, and Alexandrina for the physician Nicolaus Myresus Alexandrinus, who invented it. It was considered to be a good preservative against colic and apoplexy.
Format: Vellum, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Language: Latin
Published By: Balthazarem Arnolletum, Lyon
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Good - Printer's woodcut device to title (imprint dated 1549), translator’s name on title-page obliterated in ink; otherwise legible, colophon to verso of final leaf dated 1550, some worm trails to several leaves of text and mostly to margins, some toning and scattered spotting, lacking front free endpaper with upper hinge broken, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, 8vo about 16.6 × 10.3 cm
Collation:
[12] leaves, 712 pages, [8] leaves; signatures given as a8, bb4, a–z8, A–Y8, Z4
Complete with all preliminary leaves and final index leaves; pagination checked.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
References:
Durling/NLM 3346
Wellcome I, 5353
(see also) Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise; BnF FRBNF31000910
NLM catalogue record.
SKU: BTETM0002625
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
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