Beschreibung:

49 nn. Bll. (statt 50), 776 S., 50 S., 1 Bl. mit 639 meist botanischen Textholzschnitten. 4°. Mod. HLdr. (kl. Gebrssprn.).

Bemerkung:

Nissen BBI 1305. Pritzel 5983. Graesse IV, 342. Wellcome 4139. - Zweite lateinische Ausgabe, hier erstmals mit der Apologia erschienen. - One of the great sixteenth-century herbals, the Commentarii is enlarged from the first edition of 1554 with over 133 more cuts used here for this first time, including that of a mummy. First published in Italian in 1544 (without illustrations), Mattioli continually revised and expanded the text in over forty subsequent editions. The masterful woodcuts, by Giorgio Liberali and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, are intermediate in size and were of great influence on subsequent artists. The Apologia is Mattioli?s attack on Amatus Lusitanus, a physician and professor of anatomy at the University of Ferrara. - "Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli (1500 - 1577), Italian physician and botanist, whose Di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo libri cinque (1544) is an Italian translation, with critical commentary, of Dioscorides? classical 1st-century Greek herbal. It served as one of the bases for the development of modern botany. - Mattioli received a medical degree from the University of Padua in 1523. His first work, De morbi gallici curandi ratione, dialogus (1530), was a traditional examination of the origins and treatment of syphilis. He served as physician and adviser to Bernardo Cardinal Clesio, bishop of Trento; in 1554 he became physician to Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and later to Maximilian II. - Di Pedacio Dioscoride provided physicians, apothecaries, and herbalists with a practical scientific treatise in Italian; its commentary allowed them to identify and use medicinal plants. Mattioli?s Latin version of the text, published in 1554, made Dioscorides accessible to many European scholars. It included extensive annotations and commentary based on Mattioli?s own observations and those of others, carefully detailed illustrations, and plant-name synonyms in several languages." (Encyclopedia Britannica). - Es fehlt der Vortitel. - Titel mit altem hs. Besitzvermerk. Das nn. Bl. 31, S. 1/2, 215/216 und 523/524 mit Randeinrissen (ohne Textverlust). teils etw. wasserfleckig, durchgehend etw. fleckig und gebräunt sowie vereinzelte alte hs. Marginalien. Breitrandiges Exemplar.