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MESUË, JOANNES, the Younger. Opera medicinalia. 1495. Lacks 16 leaves.

MESUË, JOANNES, the Younger [i. e., YUHANNA IBN MASAWAIH AL-MARDINI]. Opera medicinalia. 184, 200-331 leaves; lacks leaves 185-199 (on remedies for diseases of the male and female reproductive organs) and final leaf with printer's device. Gothic type. Rubricated. Folio, 316x217 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches, lacking clasps, covers wormed, fore edge of front cover worn through; dampstaining in outer margins through most of volume, title soiled and rehinged with clean tears in blank areas discreetly repaired, minor worming in blank outer margins toward end, scattered contemporary marginalia, free endpapers excised. (Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 31 March 1495)

  • Notes: Collection of medical writings ascribed to a Baghdad court physician (d. 1015), including his Antidotarium, a popular pharmacopoeia based on Muslim knowledge, "for centuries the standard text-book of pharmacy in the West" (Sarton). Hain 11111*; BMC V 444; ISTC im00516000; Choulant, Handbuch, page 355; Sarton I, 728.

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