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HIPPOCRATES. Opera. Latin translation by Marco Fabio Calvi, Wilhelm Copus, Niccolò Leoniceno, and Andreas Brentius; edited by Andreas Cratander. Title within elaborate woodcut historiated border depicting Greco-Roman philosophers, authors, and the 9 Muses; 4-part woodcut historiated border on a1r. [52], 494, [2] pages, including final colophon leaf. Folio, 305x206 mm, old calf, recased with top of spine and bottom spine compartment restored, endpapers renewed; occasional marginal soiling and dampstaining, small wormholes through opening leaves slightly affecting title border, old signature on title, rust hole in blank outer margin of D6 and E1, wear along fore edge of leaves in last 2 gatherings, leaves in last gathering unevenly trimmed in blank outer margin, tears in last leaf not affecting text, heavy soiling on verso. Basel: Andreas Cratander, 1526
Second collected edition in Latin of the Hippocratic corpus, comprising predominantly late 5th-/early 4th-century B.C. works from the medical school of Cos. "Although none . . . can be attributed with certainty to Hippocrates, the writings retain their historical significance as the earliest extant sources of Western medical thought and practice" (Norman). This edition is a revision of the translation by Calvi published in Rome the year before, substituting versions by other translators for some works. The first collected edition in the original Greek was printed by the Aldine press in 1526. Norman 55; Printing and the Mind of Man 55 (1525 Rome edition); Durling 2321; Choulant, Handbuch, page 25; Hoffmann II, 282 (this edition).
