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LEONICENO, Niccol (1428-1524). Libellus de Epidemia, quam vulgo morbum Gallicum vocant. Venice: Aldus Manutius, June 1497.
Super-chancery 4o (193 x 147 mm). Collation: a-c8 d4 e2 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r-v author's dedication to Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola, a6r-d4r text, d4r colophon, d4v blank, e1r-v errata, e2 blank.) 30 leaves, unfoliated. Roman type 8:87 (reduced and lighter copy of Griffo's Aldine roman 2:114) and greek type 2:114(87) recast on a body small enough to range with the roman. 33 lines, printed marginalia, inital-spaces with guide letters. Modern vellum. Provenance: Giovanni Tampiccoli (early signature).
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 Aldus's Aristotelian editors. He was rated among Cop and Linacre by Erasmus 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 but recently in Europe, had been known to the ancients and therefore was not essentially a new disease" (Norman). It includes a good description of syphilitic hemiplegia. One of the most important medical incunabula printed by Aldus Manutius.
Goff L-165; HC *10019; BMC V, 557; IGI 6814; Klebs 599.1; Garrison-Morton 2363; Stillwell Science 440; Norman 1331.
Super-chancery 4o (193 x 147 mm). Collation: a-c8 d4 e2 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r-v author's dedication to Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola, a6r-d4r text, d4r colophon, d4v blank, e1r-v errata, e2 blank.) 30 leaves, unfoliated. Roman type 8:87 (reduced and lighter copy of Griffo's Aldine roman 2:114) and greek type 2:114(87) recast on a body small enough to range with the roman. 33 lines, printed marginalia, inital-spaces with guide letters. Modern vellum. Provenance: Giovanni Tampiccoli (early signature).
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 Aldus's Aristotelian editors. He was rated among Cop and Linacre by Erasmus 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 but recently in Europe, had been known to the ancients and therefore was not essentially a new disease" (Norman). It includes a good description of syphilitic hemiplegia. One of the most important medical incunabula printed by Aldus Manutius.
Goff L-165; HC *10019; BMC V, 557; IGI 6814; Klebs 599.1; Garrison-Morton 2363; Stillwell Science 440; Norman 1331.