Durante, Castor ( -1590)

Il tesoro della sanit...... Nel quale s'insegna il modo di conservar la sanit..., et prolungar la vita. Et si tratta della natura de' cibi, et de' rimedii de' nocumento loro. Di nuovo ristampato et... corretto. In Venetia, M.D.C. XVI. Appresso Marc' Antoni Zaltieri. [Transcript.] The work was first published in Rome in 1568. The edition from which this MS. was copied does not seem to be recorded in the bibliographies. At the end of the text 'R.D. Laurentius Prievius, Bass[anus] Correct[or]'. On the verso of the first leaf 'A mi querido Professor el Dr. D. Rafael rodrigurz Mendez. I. Mele, Tosa 3 Mayo 1909' (Ignacio Mele y Ferre [1860-1928].).

Middle 17th century

1 volume 2 ll. (first bl.). + pp. vi + 334 + 8 ll. 4to. 21 x 15 cm. Modern boards.

Purchased at Sotheby's 10/6/1931, Lot 510 (part).

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).