NICANDER. Theriaca kai Alexipharmaka … Theriaca et Alexipharmaca …. Accedunt Variantes Codicum Lectiones, Selectae Adnotationes, et Graeca Eutecni Sophistae Metaphrasis.Firenze, Moücke, 1764.
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8vo, mm. 215x140; Contemporary half vellum binding, title written on the spine; pp. 8], 1-282, [2], 283-376; Titlepage in red and black, text in Greek with the latin and Italian translation. Stamp of extinct library on Titlepage.
Beautiful and important issue. Work of considerable interest for the history of medicine, poisons, botany: in the two poems have counted 125 different plants. Curated by Bandini, the librarian of the Medici, it contains the only two works that have reached us of the doctor and greek scholar, with greek text, the Latin translation of Gorrhaeus and the first Italian version of Salvini.
Garrison & Morton: “His ‘Theriaca’ deals in 958 hexameters with the symptoms and treatment of poisoning by the bites of poisonous animals; the 'Alexipharmaca' considers intoxications through animal vegetable and mineral poisoning and their suitable antidotes. He is the first writer to mention the medical use of the leech.” Esemplare nella Variante B, con aggiunta una dedica di Angelo Maria Bandini a Gerard Van Swieten, che precede la Metafrasi di Eutecnio.
Garrison & Morton, n. 2069; Pritzel, 6704; Hunt,583. Non in Wellcome.
Slight sign of wear and yellowing, unsophisticated copy.
Beautiful and important issue. Work of considerable interest for the history of medicine, poisons, botany: in the two poems have counted 125 different plants. Curated by Bandini, the librarian of the Medici, it contains the only two works that have reached us of the doctor and greek scholar, with greek text, the Latin translation of Gorrhaeus and the first Italian version of Salvini.
Garrison & Morton: “His ‘Theriaca’ deals in 958 hexameters with the symptoms and treatment of poisoning by the bites of poisonous animals; the 'Alexipharmaca' considers intoxications through animal vegetable and mineral poisoning and their suitable antidotes. He is the first writer to mention the medical use of the leech.” Esemplare nella Variante B, con aggiunta una dedica di Angelo Maria Bandini a Gerard Van Swieten, che precede la Metafrasi di Eutecnio.
Garrison & Morton, n. 2069; Pritzel, 6704; Hunt,583. Non in Wellcome.
Slight sign of wear and yellowing, unsophisticated copy.
