Pharmacopoeias as witness of world history / George Urdang.

  • Urdang, George, 1882-1960.
Date:
[1900?]
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Credit: Pharmacopoeias as witness of world history / George Urdang. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.

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    Only when the political independence of papal Rome was seriously threatened, in 1868-69, ^ ^^^ Roman pharmacopoeia, the Codice Farma- ceutico Romano^ teorico, pratico^ compilato e pubblicato per ordine di sua santitd Papa Pio XI, appeared. It could not save the Eternal City from losing its sovereignty and becoming the capital of the new Kingdom of Italy. ■ry T/'^T7T^T^ \ D T/^ mmSTERO DELL-INTERNO P|/-\T> FNTINO WIU5ZI0NK l>KM,A KANIT.i I'UimUCA NUOVAMENTE COMPILATO o.~JZ7Z.r^ nmmm ufficiale PARTE PRIMA ^ REGNO DITALIA FIRENZE MDCCLXXXIX. roma Pn Gactano CAtatAci Stampatorb GkAKouotu TwnGMm oum iiiuiTauTi CONAPPROVAZIOMS. Fig. 5. Title Page of the First Edition of Fig. 4. Title Page of the Florentine Ricet- the Farmacopea Ufficiale of the New tario of 1789. Italian Kingdom (1892). Papal Rome's international character was based on its being a center of faith and church politics leaned toward the past. The internationality of Venice was based on its being a center of trade and trade politics tended to look forward. It was for this reason that Venice and not Rome achieved one of the foremost places in the history of early European printing. Some years before the issuance of the Florentine Receptario, there appeared in Venice two of the most renowned unofficial formularies of the Renaissance period, the Lumen Apothecariorum of Quiricus de Augustis de Thertona (1495 and 1497) and the Luminare Majus of G. G. Manlio de Bosco (1494, 1496 and 1499),' and were reprinted at the same place in quite a number of editions. From Venetian printing presses came modified reprints of the • According to A. C. Klebs, Incunabula, Quiricus de Augustis in Turin in 1492 and in Osiris, Vol. IV, 1938, pp. 65 and 220, there Cremona in 1494, and a print of Manlio de appeared earlier editions of the book of Bosco's Luminare Majus ir Pavia in 1494.