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PAULUS AEGINETA. Praecepta salubria. Latin translation by Guillaume Copp. [39] (of [40]) leaves; lacks last leaf (blank or with device?). 4to, modern 1/4 vellum, covers covered with rubricated early printed leaf; dampstaining in lower outer corners throughout. (Strassburg: Matthias Schurer, 1511)
Second edition of a Latin version originally published the year before. This is the first part, on general health precepts and dietetics (including much pertaining to women), of a 7-part medical encyclopedia dating from the 7th century A.D., by the last major representative of Byzantine medicine. Durling 3570; Garrison-Morton 36 note; Hoffmann III, 46; Sarton I, 479; Stillwell 475.
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