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REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNITANUM. [6] leaves. Gothic type, 32 lines. 4to, 183x139 mm, later wrappers, side-stitched, worn; contents foxed, first leaf heavily soiled on recto with crude repair in blank lower inner corner, few early marginalia. (Rouen: Pierre Regnault, Pierre Violette, and Noël de Harsy, circa 1500)
Medieval health, hygienic, and dietary precepts in verse ascribed to the medical school of Salerno, which went through numerous editions from from the 15th century onward. The present example was printed as the addendum to a later edition of Marsilio Ficino's 1589 De triplici vita, a treatise on health maintenance and astrological medicine. GW 9887; ISTC if00161700 locates 6 copies in Europe, none in North America.
