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36 - [HIPPOCRATES]. PHILOTEE. Commentaria in aphorismos Hippocrat…
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[HIPPOCRATES]. PHILOTEE. Commentaria in aphorismos Hippocratis. Speyer, Bernhard Albin, 1581. – RONSSEUS (Balduinus). A short commentary on Hippocrates’ major treatises, concerning Pliny’s stomach ailments and skeletal disorders, or what is commonly known as scurvy. Wittenberg, Clemens Schleich, 1585. – GALEN (Claudius). Liber de urinis. Wittenberg, the heirs of Johann Krafft, 1586. 3 works in one 8vo volume, lemon morocco, triple gilt fillet, coat of arms in the centre, spine decorated with a repeating cipher, gilt edges (contemporary binding). An interesting collection of three rare medical treatises published in Germany between 1581 and 1586. It comprises: 1. The second edition of Lodovico Corrado’s Latin translation of an important commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms attributed to the Byzantine physician Philotheus, also known as Theophilus Protospatharius. It is dedicated to Marquart von Hattstein (1529–1581), Bishop of Speyer. The first edition was published in Venice in 1549. Philotheus, also known as Theophilus the Protospatharius, was a physician and philosopher who lived and practised in Byzantium between the 7th and 9th centuries. He helped to adapt Hippocratic and Galenic theories to Christian doctrine. He is the author of several works on anatomy and physiology, as well as on urine, the pulse and fevers. 2. The third edition of the treatise on scurvy by Boudewijn van Ronss (1525–1596), known as Balduinus Ronsseus in Latin. The work had previously been published in Leuven in 1559 and in Antwerp in 1564. It includes two wood-engraved botanical plates depicting the vegetative and flowering stages of Cochlearia officinalis, also known as ‘scurvy herb’, as it was believed to prevent the onset of the disease. Born in Ghent, Baudouin de Ronss taught medicine at Leuven. After also practising in Germany, he settled in Holland, where he served as the town physician of Gouda. His numerous publications, drawing on ancient texts to which his knowledge of Greek gave him easy access, earned him a great reputation. Thus, in this treatise on scurvy, accompanied by five letters on the same subject, he refers to the works of Hippocrates, Pliny and Galen. 3. The first edition of Salomon Alberti’s Latin translation of Galen’s *Treatise on Urines*, printed in two columns with the Greek text on one side and the Latin translation opposite. Salomon Alberti (1540–1600) practised and taught medicine. He was one of the successors to the work of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) and disseminated his approach to anatomy, which marked a departure from that of Galen, which had prevailed until then. He is also the author of three treatises on scurvy. A fine collection of medical treatises bound in lemon-coloured morocco, bearing the coat of arms and cipher of Jacques-Auguste de Thou, commissioned prior to his first marriage in 1587. A magistrate, statesman, jurist, historian, humanist and bibliophile, Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553–1617) was one of the most prominent figures among the book collectors of his time. The scholarly and encyclopaedic library he had added to the collection of his father, Christophe de Thou—comprising some one thousand manuscripts and eight thousand printed volumes—remained unrivalled in Paris until the mid-17th century. Serving as a working tool for the historian and jurist – J.-A. de Thou was notably the author of a major sixteen-volume History of his time – his library was also open to scholars, humanists and students from France and abroad. Extremely particular about the condition of his books, Jacques-Auguste de Thou had them bound with the utmost care, first in vellum, then in red morocco, lemon, green or purple, of the finest quality, stamped with his monogram and coat of arms – to which he had added, following his first marriage in 1587, the coat of arms of Marie de Barbançon-Cany; and, following his second marriage in 1602, those of Gasparde de La Chastre. The three titles together are listed in the catalogue of the Bibliothèque thuanienne (1679, II, pp. 138, 149 and 150). Sold almost in its entirety to Charron de Ménars in 1680, President de Thou’s library was subsequently acquired, in 1706, by Cardinal de Rohan, who bequeathed it to his grand-nephew, the Prince de Soubise. This volume is described in the *Catalogue of the Books of the Late His Grace the Prince de Soubise* (1788, no. 3426) and bears, on the front endpaper, a handwritten shelfmark from that library. Worn spine joints; some pages are foxed in the third volume. I. Philotée: Adams, P-1074 – BM, German, p. 407 – II. Ronss: Adams, R-768 – BM, German, p. 757 – III. Galen: BM, German, p. 330 – PMM, pp. 18–19. – OHR, 216/2 and 3 – A. Coron, ‘Ut prosint aliis. J.-A. de Thou and his library’, in HBF, 1988, II, 100–125.
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