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LEONICENUS, Nicolaus (1428-1524)
De morbo Gallico: Libellus de Epidemia, quam vulgo morbum Gallicum vocant. Venice: Aldus Manutius, June 1497.
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LEONICENUS, Nicolaus (1428-1524)
De morbo Gallico: Libellus de Epidemia, quam vulgo morbum Gallicum vocant. Venice: Aldus Manutius, June 1497.
First edition of one of the earliest treatises on syphilis by one of the outstanding Greek scholars of his age. Leoniceno taught medicine at the University of Ferrara and was one of the editors of the Aldine Aristotle. Erasmus rated him alongside Guillaume Cop and Linacre as one of the humanists to revive medical studies. 'His tract on syphilis cited numerous errors committed by the Arabists in the identification and naming of diseases, and attempted to prove that syphilis, although it had appeared recently in Europe, had been known to the ancients and therefore was not essentially a new disease' (Norman). HC *10019; BMC V, 557; IGI 6814; Klebs 599.1; BSB-Ink N-130; Bod-inc. L-087; Ahmanson-Murphy 14; Laurenziana 12; Sansoviniana 18; Renouard Alde, 14:12; Goff L-165; ISTC il00165000.
Super-chancery quarto (205 x 140mm). 28 leaves (lacking the errata leaf, as often). Roman and Greek types, shoulder notes, initial spaces with guide-letter (faint spotting in first few leaves). 18th-century speckled calf, gilt border, flat spine gilt with cornucopia tool and lettering-piece, red edges (very minor wear at extremities). Provenance: Royal Medical Society (stamps as Royal Medical & Chirurgical Society).
De morbo Gallico: Libellus de Epidemia, quam vulgo morbum Gallicum vocant. Venice: Aldus Manutius, June 1497.
First edition of one of the earliest treatises on syphilis by one of the outstanding Greek scholars of his age. Leoniceno taught medicine at the University of Ferrara and was one of the editors of the Aldine Aristotle. Erasmus rated him alongside Guillaume Cop and Linacre as one of the humanists to revive medical studies. 'His tract on syphilis cited numerous errors committed by the Arabists in the identification and naming of diseases, and attempted to prove that syphilis, although it had appeared recently in Europe, had been known to the ancients and therefore was not essentially a new disease' (Norman). HC *10019; BMC V, 557; IGI 6814; Klebs 599.1; BSB-Ink N-130; Bod-inc. L-087; Ahmanson-Murphy 14; Laurenziana 12; Sansoviniana 18; Renouard Alde, 14:12; Goff L-165; ISTC il00165000.
Super-chancery quarto (205 x 140mm). 28 leaves (lacking the errata leaf, as often). Roman and Greek types, shoulder notes, initial spaces with guide-letter (faint spotting in first few leaves). 18th-century speckled calf, gilt border, flat spine gilt with cornucopia tool and lettering-piece, red edges (very minor wear at extremities). Provenance: Royal Medical Society (stamps as Royal Medical & Chirurgical Society).
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