Dell'historia de i semplici aromati, et altre cose che vengono portate dall'Indie Orientali pertinenti all'vso della medicina Parte prima, diuisa in quattro libri

Title Variants

Alternative: Delle cose, che vengono portate dall'Indie Occidentali

Uniform: Colóquios dos simples e drogas e coisas medicinais da India e de algumas frutas

By

Orta, Garcia de, 16th cent.-

Briganti, Annibale, 1520-1582
Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609
Monardes, Nicolás, approximately 1512-1588 , Historia medicinal
Monardes, Nicolás, approximately 1512-1588 , Libro que trata de dos medicinos excelentissimos contra todo veneno
Monardes, Nicolás, approximately 1512-1588 , Libro que trata de la nieue

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

In Venetia, Nella stamperia di Giouanni Salis, 1616

Notes

"Borgarutio Borgarucci, a' lettori" (advertisement for the pharmaceutical museum of Francesco Calceolari, Verona): p. 381-385.

"Del tabaco, & sue grandi virtù": p. 388-406, with large ill., p. 388 (reworked block from the Venice, 1575 ed. of Monardes' Part 2). For discussion of this chapter in the original Spanish ed. (1571) and J. Frampton's translation of selected passages, cf. Arents, G. Tobacco, 15.

Briganti's translation of Carolus Clusius' annotated Latin abridgement of the Orta work (p. [1]-257; Clusius' title: Aromatum, et simplicium ... historia) and Briganti's translations from the Spanish of Part 1 of Monardes' Historia medicinal and the latter's treatise on bezoar (p. 258-385) were originally published Venice, 1576, under title: Due libri dell'historia de i semplici ... e due altri libri ...

For 1589 ed. (Venice : G. & A. Zenari), cf. Arents SA 0094.

Illustrations: 28 prints : woodcut ; full-page (2) and image 11 x 9 cm. or smaller. Blocks in first part (Orta-Monardes pt. 1) repeated from 1576 ed.; in second part (Monardes pt. 2) from 1575 ed.; copied from earlier Latin eds. of Orta and Spanish eds. of Monardes. Subject: Indian and American materia medica.

Includes index.

Name of printer from colophon, which reads: Stampato in Venetia, nella stamperia di Giouanni Salis ...

On t.p., statement "Parte prima ..." follows first statement of responsibility.

Part 2 of Monardes' Historia medicinal and his treatise on snow (p. 386-525) have caption title: "Delle cose, che vengono portate dall'Indie Occidentali ... Parte seconda, distinta in due libri ... ; con vn libro ... che tratta della neue ..."

Signatures: a-b⁸ A-2K⁸ (2K8 blank).

Woodcut printer's device (Agnus Dei) on t.p.; floriated initials.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.), | 99523

Sabin | 57670

Guerra, F. Monardes, | 38

Alden, J.E. European Americana, | 616/84

Wellcome cat. of printed books, | 4663

Subjects

Bezoars , Early works , Early works to 1800 , India , Indians of North America , Latin America , Materia medica , Snow , Therapeutic use , Tobacco , Tobacco in art , Tobacco use

Language

Italian

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.122279
NLM: WZ 250 O77cI 1616
OCLC: 33875148