En postremum tibi damus, candide lector, Ioannis Manardi medici Ferrariensis, sua tempestate omnium medicinae professorum per uniuersam Italiam, in Galeni doctrina & Arabum censura celeberrimi, & optimè meriti, Epistolarum medicinaliu[m] libros XX. : è quibus ultimo duo in hac editione primu[m] accesserunt, unà cum epistola, iandudum desiderata, de morbis interioribus, quam utinam immatura morte non praeuentus, totam absoluere potuisset. Eiusdem in Ioan. Mesue de simplicia & composita annotationes & censur[a]e, omnibus practicae studiosis adeò necessariae, ut sine harum cognitione aegrotantibus recte consulere nemo possit. Adiecto indice Latino & Graeco, utroq[ue] copiosissimo.

Epistolarum medicinalium lib. XX

En postremvm tibi damvs, candide lector, Ioannis Manardi medici Ferrariensis, sva tempestate omnivm medicinae professorvm per vniuersam Italiam, in Galeni doctrina & Arabum censura celeberrimi, & optimè meriti, Epistolarvm medicinaliu[m] libros XX

Epistolarum medicinaliu[m] libros XX

Epistolarvm medicinaliu[m] libros XX

Basileae : Apud Mich. Isingrinium, Anno M.D. XL. [1540]

24 unnumbered pages, 603, that is, 601 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; folio

Adams, M316

Printer's device with inscription "Palma Ising" on t.p. and repeated on verso of final leaf.

Signatures: a-b⁶ (b6 blank) ²a-z⁶ A-2C⁶ 2D⁸.

Nos. 599-600 omitted in pagination.

Includes index.

Woodcut initials, marginal notes.

Copy 1. Supplier/ Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Binding: 16th century blind tooled calf, rebacked and repaired 1988. Signature at top of title page (previously under paper slip which was lifted in 1988) "Thomas Cantuariensis". Signature on paper slip previously pasted on title page "Sum Humfredi Lloid". Signature at foot of title page "Lumley". At his death Lumley left his library to Henry, Prince of Wales, the son of James I in 1609. It remained part of the Royal Library which was then given to the British Museum by George II in 1757. BM duplicate sale stamp (1769) on verso of title page. Bookplate of John Lewis Petit. Purchased by James Sims at the Sotheby's sale of Petit's library in 1786 and subsequently acquired by the Medical Society of London in 1800. See Selwyn, The Library of Thomas Cranmer (Oxford, 1996), 577.