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ISAAC Medicus (fl.mid-9th-mid-10th century). De particularibus diaetis, Padua: Matthaeus Cerdonis, 23 March 1487, 4° (193 x 140mm), 60 leaves, gothic type, ornamental woodcut initials, contemporary marginal annotations including German translations of plant names, unbound, in a blue morocco-backed box. [H *9267; BMC VII, 923; Goff I-176; DSB VII, 22]
FIRST AND ONLY 15TH-CENTURY EDITION of Isaac's treatise on diet, which was a standard medical text in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The Jewish medical doctor Isaac was physician to the last of the Aghlabid emirs and then to the Fatimid caliph.
FIRST AND ONLY 15TH-CENTURY EDITION of Isaac's treatise on diet, which was a standard medical text in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The Jewish medical doctor Isaac was physician to the last of the Aghlabid emirs and then to the Fatimid caliph.