Medicæ artis principes, post Hippocratem & Galenum. : Graeci Latinitate donati, Aretæus, Ruffus Ephesius, Oribasius, Paulus AEgineta [sic], Aëtius, Alex. Trallianus, Actuarius, Nic. Myrepsus. Latini, Corn. Celsus, Scrib. Largus, Marcell. Empiricus : aliíque præterea, quorum unius nomen ignoratur : index non solùm copiosus, sed etiam ordine artificioso omnia digesta habens : Hippocr. aliquot loci cum Corn. Celsi interpretatione.

Medicae artis principes.

[Geneva] : Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus, Anno M.D.LXVII. [1567]

5 part : illustrations (woodcuts) ; folio (35 cm)

Henri Estienne's collection of the most important Greek, Roman and Byzantine medical writers, exclusive of Hippocrates and Galen, through the 13th century. Many of the works are translations into Latin from the original Greek (the Oribasius, for example, translated by Giovanni Battista Rosario, and the Aegineta by Janus Cornarius).

Printer's device with motto "Noli altum sapere" on the first title page; all of the subsequent pt. have divisional half-t.p. only; title to pt. 2 reads: "Oribasii Sardiani medici longè excellentissimi Opera, tribus tomis digesta, Ioanne Baptista Rasario interprete; title to pt. 3 reads; "Aetii medici Graeci contractae ex veteribus medicinae Tetrabiblos, hoc est quaternio, id est libri vniuersales quatuor"; pt. 4 has caption title "Actuarii Zachariae filii De spiritu animali libri duo ..." only; title to pt. 5 reads "Aurelii Cornelii Celsi De re medica libri octo, operis ab eo scripti de artibus, pars sexta."

The Oribasius is illustrated with 43 fine woodcuts, based on those in Gesner's Chirurgia. Zürich, 1555.

Place of publication from Adams.

Main body of text printed in double columns.

Includes index.

Woodcut Initials; decoration.

Copy 2. Bookplate of Guil[laume] Oliver M.D. on front end leaf verso.

Copy 3. Vol. 1. Bookplate of Samuel Pye surgeon Bristol on t.p. verso.

Copy 4. Interleaved in 5 vols. Binding: tree calf. Two autographs on t.p.: 'Louis Geoffier D.P.M. 1720' and 'Martin Hauzer D.m.d. 1854'.

Copy 5. Bound in 20th century red buckram, parchment spine and corners.

Copy 6. Vol. 1. Binding: 16th century calf. Two autographs on t.p.: 'Joh: Grellau' (17th cent.) and 'D. Masterton' (18th cent.).

Copy 6. Vol. 2. Bound in patterned papers, parchment spine. Manuscript inscription on text block tail edge: 'Prin-Med Vol. 7'. Manuscript inscription at head of half-title page and at foot: 'Est. Ludovici Tertioli'.

Copy 7. Vol. 1. Bound in patterned papers, black buckram spine.

Copy 7. Vol. 2. Bound in 19th century patterned papers, calf spine and corners. Manuscript inscription on half-title: 'Joannis Bays [?] Abbuti [?] liber empores [?]'. Index in manuscript on rear end paper.

Copy 8. Vol. 1. Incomplete: comprises pts 1 and 2. Binding: 17th cent. speckled calf. 17th century autograph inscription on t.p.: 'Ex libris Petri Lellogne chirurgi Rothomaga'. Autograph at head of t.p.: 'J Cleghorn 1791'. Also later semi-legible autographs: 'Lala[...]zue' and 'Beaurains McGreavy [?]'. Stamp of Library of Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland on t.p.

Copy 8. Vol. 2. Incomplete: comprises part of pt 3. Bound in speckled papers, calf spine.

Copy 9. Incomplete: comprises pts 1, 2, and part of 3. Binding: 20th century parchment. Semi-legible 16th cent. MS inscription at foot of t.p: 'Si [?] Hierony[mu]s Careanus Vics. pt: officij Mod. Jussae R. P. Magistis [?] Med. subserujisit et concessit.' Title in MS on text block tail edge: 'Med: ar: prin.' Booklabel of Gio. Co. Scopoli on t.p.

Copy 10. Incomplete: comprises pts 2, 3 and index. First few leaves damaged by damp and reinforced. Binding: 17th century parchment. Autograph (defaced) on t.p.: Guil. Duclos.

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.), 55

Heirs of Hippocrates, 362

Adams, S1780

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, p.129, no. 3

Schreiber, F. The Estiennes, 167

In Latin with Greek references, translation from Greek.