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32 - HIPPOCRATE. Βιβλια απαντα. Libri omnes ad vetustos codices s…
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HIPPOCRATE. Βιβλια απαντα. Libri omnes ad vetustos codices summo studio collati et restaurati. Basel, Hieronymus Froben [and Nikolaus Episcopius], 1538. In-folio, fawn calf, ornate spine, spotted edges (17th century binding). Second collective edition in Greek of the Hippocratic corpus, by the Saxon physician and humanist Janus Cornarius, whose real name was Johannes Hainpol. It is "more complete and more correct" than the first Greek edition, published by the Aldine presses in 1526, which was based on poor manuscripts, according to Brunet. A very fine Greek printing by Hieronymus Froben, with the large woodcut mark on the title. Only the title and the publisher's dedication are printed in Latin. A very interesting annotated copy by François de Saint-Vertunien (c. 1550-1608), or simply François Vertunien, sieur de La Vau, physician of Poitiers, graduated from the University of Montpellier in 1567, who was a close friend of the great scholar Joseph Juste Scaliger, but also of Casaubon, J.-A. de Thou and Scévole de Sainte-Marthe. Vertunien was the author of Scaliger's first treatise on bon mots (known as Scaligerana prima), as well as a Latin translation of Hippocrates' treatise on head injuries (De capitis vulneribus), published in 1578 with the Greek text drawn up and commented on by Scaliger. The copy, copiously annotated in Greek and Latin in the margins of the text, bears the handwritten bookplate of Franciscus Vertunianus at the top of the title. It also bears, at the bottom of the title, the signature Le Coq, probably that of his son-in-law, Pascal Le Coq (1597-1632), sieur des Forges, a famous physician and botanist who was regent and dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Poitiers, or else of one of their descendants. A second hand has left some marginal annotations, in finer handwriting, in the seventeenth or eighteenth century. The table of the Hippocratic corpus on the 3rd leaf has been completed in Greek and Latin in pen. Between pp. 542 and 543 a leaf has been added comprising a handwritten copy in Greek of the Hippocratic treatise on remedies (Περὶ φαρμάκων). Worn binding with missing headpieces and corners, spotting and rubbing, first board detached, dampstaining to bottom of first few quires, some freckling and browned leaves, scattered small ink stains. Durling, n°2317 - Hoffmann, II, 271 - Brunet, III, 170.
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