Androfillo Sanatele

Il tesoro della Sanita del Tepar ras minomasi cupanico, e dal medesino esperimentati, cavati da un suo libretto da Androfillo Sanatele. [Followed by] Trattato dell' eccellenza del Rosomarino e sua qualita, tradotto da Spagnuolo in lingua Italiana dal libro de trattati di Girolamo Corti Spagnuolo.

Mid 17th Century

1 volume 4 bl. ll. + 2 ll. + 128 pp. 8vo. 14 1/2 x 11 cm. Modern half pig-skin binding.

Purchased 1923.

The names here seem to be pseudonyms, but none has been traced in the bibliographies. Girolamo Corti is an Italian form of the name of Geronimo Cortes of Valencia, and the work on Rosemary is one of the five treatises in his 'Phisonomia y varios secretos de naturaleza', first published in Madrid in 1598. It was reprinted several times. [Cf. Ferguson 'Bibliographical notes on Books of Secrets', Part IV, pp. 17, 18. Supplement III, pp. 37, 38. Also Thorndike's History of Magic and Experimental Science, Vol. VI, pp. 95, 96: 166-169: 428, 429].

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).