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REGIMEN SALUTIS SALERNITANUM.-De conservanda bona valetudine, scholae Salernitanae opusculum... Edited with other texts by J. Curio and J. Crellius. Frankfurt: Christian Egenolf, 1553.
8° (155 x 100 mm). 70 woodcut illustrations, including repeats. (Title B2, C4 and T3 washed, causing light staining.) Mid 19th-century French dark green crushed morocco, gilt turn-ins, g.e. Provenance: on f.146v an early owner has added an example of age-old medical students' wit in the form of a parody of the sententious adages of the Schola: 'Tergere culum bis tu debes quando cacabis...'(and more in the same vein).
A fine copy of a rare edition of this important mediaeval verse manual on health and diet from the 'civitas Hippocratica', Salerno (with commentary traditionally attributed to the Catalan physician and Joachimite mystic Arnald of Villanova), richly illustrated with woodcuts, some by Johann Faber von Kreuznach, including a large cut of the interior of a hospital, and others of seasonal occupations, including mixed bathing and the treading of grapes. Röttinger, Frankfurter Buchholzschnitt, p.71 and pl.IV; Durling 3821; Simon, Bibl. Bacchica, p.175.
8° (155 x 100 mm). 70 woodcut illustrations, including repeats. (Title B2, C4 and T3 washed, causing light staining.) Mid 19th-century French dark green crushed morocco, gilt turn-ins, g.e. Provenance: on f.146v an early owner has added an example of age-old medical students' wit in the form of a parody of the sententious adages of the Schola: 'Tergere culum bis tu debes quando cacabis...'(and more in the same vein).
A fine copy of a rare edition of this important mediaeval verse manual on health and diet from the 'civitas Hippocratica', Salerno (with commentary traditionally attributed to the Catalan physician and Joachimite mystic Arnald of Villanova), richly illustrated with woodcuts, some by Johann Faber von Kreuznach, including a large cut of the interior of a hospital, and others of seasonal occupations, including mixed bathing and the treading of grapes. Röttinger, Frankfurter Buchholzschnitt, p.71 and pl.IV; Durling 3821; Simon, Bibl. Bacchica, p.175.