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HIPPOCRATES (460-c.370 B.C.). Octoginta volumina. The Hippocratic corpus translated from Greek into Latin by Marcus Fabius Calvus (c.1440-1527). Rome: Franciscus Minutius Calvus, 1525.
2° (265 x 198mm). Woodcut title border, large woodcut initials, initial spaces with guide-letter. Roman, gothic and italic types. Table of contents in 2 columns, index in 3 columns, printed shoulder notes. (Title shaved at top, some spotting and browning, very light dampstain.) 17th-century French calf, spine gilt in compartments and lettered in the second, speckled edges (some expert repairs). Provenance: Jo. Chamien?, doctor of medicine of Lyons (early title inscription); Janus Saracenus (title inscription dated 1633).
FIRST EDITION of the works of 'the greatest of clinical physicians'. The Hippocratic collection consists of medical works written between 420 and 350 B.C. and brought together at Alexandria about 280 B.C., which share the methods and ideals of the famous Greek doctor. Hippocrates 'is credited with developing the first system of empirical medicine based on clinical experience' (Grolier, Medicine), and the Hippocratic Oath embodies the highest ethical and moral standards of the medical profession. The Hippocratic works were widely known and consulted in the classical world, but only a few texts circulated in the middle ages. Their restoration and publication, edited by the scholar and antiquary Marco Fabio Calvo, was a milestone in Renaissance thought, as well as medical practice. In preparing this edition, Calvo collated and wrote out his own manuscript of the Greek text, depending primarily on a 14th-century manuscript then in his own possession but also consulting a 12th-century codex that is one of the oldest and most important Hippocratic manuscripts. Calvo's Greek text was completed in Rome on 24 July 1512, and he finished the Latin translation on 14 August 1515. Both of his source manuscritps, as well as his own copies of the Greek text and Latin translation survive in the Vatican Library (N. Sirisi, Rome Reborn, Washington: 1993, pp.181-3). It remained to the Aldine press to print the Hippocratic corpus in Greek the following year. Adams H-567; Grolier Medicine 1A; NLM/Durling 2320; PMM 55, Stillwell Awakening of Science 406 and 657; Wellcome 3177.
2° (265 x 198mm). Woodcut title border, large woodcut initials, initial spaces with guide-letter. Roman, gothic and italic types. Table of contents in 2 columns, index in 3 columns, printed shoulder notes. (Title shaved at top, some spotting and browning, very light dampstain.) 17th-century French calf, spine gilt in compartments and lettered in the second, speckled edges (some expert repairs). Provenance: Jo. Chamien?, doctor of medicine of Lyons (early title inscription); Janus Saracenus (title inscription dated 1633).
FIRST EDITION of the works of 'the greatest of clinical physicians'. The Hippocratic collection consists of medical works written between 420 and 350 B.C. and brought together at Alexandria about 280 B.C., which share the methods and ideals of the famous Greek doctor. Hippocrates 'is credited with developing the first system of empirical medicine based on clinical experience' (Grolier, Medicine), and the Hippocratic Oath embodies the highest ethical and moral standards of the medical profession. The Hippocratic works were widely known and consulted in the classical world, but only a few texts circulated in the middle ages. Their restoration and publication, edited by the scholar and antiquary Marco Fabio Calvo, was a milestone in Renaissance thought, as well as medical practice. In preparing this edition, Calvo collated and wrote out his own manuscript of the Greek text, depending primarily on a 14th-century manuscript then in his own possession but also consulting a 12th-century codex that is one of the oldest and most important Hippocratic manuscripts. Calvo's Greek text was completed in Rome on 24 July 1512, and he finished the Latin translation on 14 August 1515. Both of his source manuscritps, as well as his own copies of the Greek text and Latin translation survive in the Vatican Library (N. Sirisi, Rome Reborn, Washington: 1993, pp.181-3). It remained to the Aldine press to print the Hippocratic corpus in Greek the following year. Adams H-567; Grolier Medicine 1A; NLM/Durling 2320; PMM 55, Stillwell Awakening of Science 406 and 657; Wellcome 3177.