Typvs Et Forma Brevis Totivs Artis Hippocraticae, In Svmma Rervm Capita Contracta.
Dillingen, S. Mayer 1559.
Five broadsides (Title: 292 x 326 mm.; Table I: 400 x 330 mm.; II: 360 x 334 mm.; III: 371 x 272 mm.; IV: 300 x 332 mm.). The first sheet is folded once with a traditional title on the recto and a thirty-one-line dedication set vertically on the verso (lower margin extended with blank paper at the time of binding). The following four schematic sheets have left and right deckle edges and are double-page, printed on one side only and are folded at top, bottom and in the middle.
Contemporary blind-ruled dark brown sheep (very scuffed, corners showing, joints starting, front flyleaf coming detached) with gilt corner fleurons and centerpieces, gilt rosettes in the spine compartments (some loss revealing cords), paper labels on spine (one partially damaged with loss).
With: Sylvius, Jacobus. 1478-1555. With: Galen. 129-216. With: Galen. 129-216. With: Sylvius, Jacobus. 1478-1555. With: Galen. 129-216. With: Galen. 129-216. With: Galen. 129-216.
In Hippocratis Et Galeni Physiologiae Partem Anatomicam Isagogue...in libros tres distributa. Paris, J. Hulpeau 1555. Folio. [iv], 65, [1]f. Partly schematic, a woodcut Hulpeau device on the title.
De Temperamentis Libri III. De Inaequali Intemperie Liber I. Paris, Catherine Barbé (widow of J. Gazeau) 1549. Folio (291 x 198 mm.). [iix], 81, [7]p. A Gazeau woodcut device on the title.
De natvralibus facvltatibus libri tres. Paris, C. Wechel 1546. Folio. [iix], 77, [4], [2 blank], [1]p. Woodcut Wechel Pegasus devices on the final verso and title.
Commentarius in Claudii Galeni de Ossibus ad Tyrones libellum. Paris, P. Drouart 1556. Folio. 62, [2 blank]p. A woodcut Drouart device on the title.
De Morborvm Et Symptomatvm Differentiis Et Cavsis libri sex. Paris, C. Wechel 1546. Folio. 130, [2 blank], [6], [2 blank]p. A woodcut Wechel device on the title.
Introdvctio In Pulsvs Ad Tevthram...Eiusdem de pulsuum vsu. Paris, C. Wechel 1546. Folio. 31, [1]p. A woodcut Wechel device on the final verso and title.
De Sanitate Tvenda Libri Sex. Paris, C. Wechel 1540. Folio. [xx], 179, [1]p. One woodcut diagram, a woodcut Wechel device on the final verso and title.
Ad I-VIII: A COLLECTION OF MEDICAL SCHOOL TEXTS WITH A SET OF FUGITIVE EDUCATIONAL BROADSIDES. These present the ancient medical knowledge that collided with new anatomical discoveries through human dissection in the mid-16th century.
Ad I: ONLY EDITION: A MULTI-SHEET SCHEMATIC INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINE BY LEONHART FUCHS’ SON-IN-LAW. These tables present the author’s three universal Hippocratic principles — Substance (substantia), Faculties (facultates) and Changes (alterationes). Three of the four sheets concern disease, diagnosis and treatment. Mayr composed this outline for Abraham Ridler, a medical student and scion of a prominent Munich family. Mayr was Munich’s municipal physician and is known from one other publication, a vernacular plague treatise (Tübingen 1564) that Fuchs saw through press. I have located just one institution with these broadsides (Halle). In good condition (a few stains, two sheets with small tears at folds).
¶See Widmann’s Tübingen als Verlagsstadt 87-8.
Ad II: First Edition of this schematic summary of Galenic and Hippocratic physiology by the renowned Paris anatomist and professor Jacobus Sylvius (Jacques Dubois). Sylvius was a proponent of human dissection but also a committed Galenist — a point of conflict with his star pupil, Andreas Vesalius.
¶Bruni Celli, Bibliografía hipocrática 1183; Durling, A Catalogue of 16th Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine 1256.
Ad III-V: Galen’s treatises on Temperaments (Ad III), Natural Faculties (IV) and Bones (V), edited with commentary by Sylvius.
¶Ad III: Durling, “Chronological Census of Renaissance Editions and Translations of Galen” in Journal of the Warburg & Courtauld Institutes 24 (1961) 1549.21; BP16 113570.
Ad IV: Durling, “Chronological Census” 1546.7; BP16 112470.
Ad V: Durling, Catalogue 1235.
Ad VI-VIII: Galen’s works on Disease (VI), Pulse (VII), and Hygiene (VIII), translated by Guillaume Cop (d. 1532), Martin Grégoire (d. 1552) and Englishman Thomas Linacre (d. 1524), respectively.
In original condition (some stains, some quires browned). Scattered annotations in an early hand, manuscript contents list on the front pastedown (omitting the broadsides), 17th-century inscription of the Toulouse Jesuits.
¶Ad VI: Durling, “Chronological Census” 1546.6; BP16 112469.
Ad VII: BP16 112472; not in Durling’s “Chronological Census”.
Ad VIII: Durling, “Chronological Census” 1540.4; BP16 109831.
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