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The texts bound together here include works by (or attributed to) three Doctors of the Church, two from the Western tradition (St. Isidore of Seville and St. Augustine) and one from the Eastern Church (St. John Chrysostom). As a group these texts…
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Although trained in the classical tradition of medicine based on the writings of Galen, Vesalius created an entirely new method of understanding human anatomy, based on dissection and direct observation, with the publication of De Humani Corporis…
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Hippocrates, a physician in Greece during the classical period, is often considered the founder of Western medicine. The corpus of his writing, however, is not all positively attributed to him, but rather to a wider circle of fellow practitioners and…
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The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle may be considered the first scientist to compile empirical data about the biological world by means of direct observation. His De animalibus includes sections on the history of animals, the first work on animal…
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Following Hippocrates, Galen was the most notable physician of antiquity. He studied medicine in Pergamum as well as in Smyrna, Corinth, and Alexandria. An enormously influential author into the Middle Ages, Galen's writings were considered…
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Dioscorides' De materia medica was the most authoritative and influential botanical and pharmacological text prior to the work of the eighteenth-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus. The Euporista, a compilation of simple remedies, appears here in…
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Known in Europe as Mesue, Yuhanna Ibn Masawayh was the chief physician at the ninth-century medical school in Baghdad and wrote prolifically in Syriac and Arabic. Best known for his expertise in ophthalmology, gynecology, and anatomy, his were among…
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The Persian Mohammed al-Razi (Rhasis) was considered one of the great early physicians of the Islamic world, and he had widespread influence upon late medieval European medicine as well. This ninth volume of the set of ten medical textbooks he…
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'Abd al-Malik ibn Abi al-'Alā Ibn Zuhr was a native of Seville and a highly regarded physician in Islamic Spain. The Teisir, his most famous work, describes preparations for medicines and diets, provides insightful clinical descriptions of many…
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Originally assembled at the medical school in Salerno, the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum was a popular late-medieval medical compilation with accompanying commentary. The text is often mistakenly ascribed to Arnoldus de Villa Nova because of his…
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This treatise concerning permissible marriages was published by Augsburg's first printer, Gther Zainer. The author of this text, the Bolognese canon lawyer Johannes Andreae, explained that marriages along direct blood lines ("consanguinity") or as…
BRA0879
This comprehensive encyclopedia of Renaissance learning includes discussions of arithmetic, geometry, astrology, physiology, medicine, economics, politics, moral philosophy, poetry, music, rhetoric, dialectic, and grammar.
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Reisch's illustrated encyclopedia compiles information from various branches of medieval knowledge: grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and philosophy as well as the natural and human sciences. Compiled by the Prior of the…
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1584 third edition of the author's collected works including his famous, De contagione et contagiosis morbis et curatione, and his poem on syphillis, Syphilis, sive morbus gallicus.
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Mattioli wrote on various medical topics, including syphilis, the practice of medicine, and therapeutic practices, but his most well-known work was this commentary on Dioscorides's De materia medica. As a medical practitioner, Mattioli was extremely…
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Aldrovandi studied in Bologna, Padua, Rome, and Pisa where his interests included antiquities and botany. Author of several works on medicine and natural philosophy, he is most well known for his thirteen-volume illustrated work on natural history.…
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Aldrovandi studied in Bologna, Padua, Rome, and Pisa where his interests included antiquities and botany. Author of several works on medicine and natural philosophy, he is most well known for his thirteen-volume illustrated work on natural history.…
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Aldrovandi studied in Bologna, Padua, Rome, and Pisa where his interests included antiquities and botany. Author of several works on medicine and natural philosophy, he is most well known for his thirteen-volume illustrated work on natural history.…
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Nieremberg taught humanities, natural history, and scripture at the Colegio Imperial in Madrid. Additionally, he authored about eighty separate works, mostly about religion and philosophy. His Historia naturae, which focuses largely on the natural…
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Second and finest of eight edition of the Latin Bible published by Anton Koberger between 1475 and 1501. In this 1477 printing, textual additions by Menardus Monachus provide an abstract of the contents for each book of the Bible.
BRMS 21
Breviaries consisted of psalms, antiphons, lectionary, martyrology, and other features. This breviary for Benedictine Use includes calendrical notes that point to a composition date circa 1431 and also includes an indulgence approved in 1431 by Pope…
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The missal is a Christian service book that provides the texts necessary for the celebration of the Mass by a priest. It includes chants, prayers, scriptural readings, and directions (rubrics) written in red. The presence of location specific saints…
BRMS 19
This portable breviary, used by a Franciscan friar in Italy during the fifteenth century, includes a calendar for the use of Rome with later handwritten additions indicating the feasts of several Franciscan saints. Illuminated with northern Italian…
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Book is in complete condition which is rare but also shows the widespread and prolonged use of the item. Early missals like this one were printed without notation for the owner to fill in.
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