Amati Lusitani medici ac philosophi celeberrimi In Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medica materia libris quinque enarrationes eruditissimae. : Quibus etiam tum Simplicium medicamentorum nomenclaturae Graecae, Latinae, Italicae, Hispanicae, Germanicae, & Gallicae proponuntur: tum errores aliorum omnium, qui ad hanc usque diem de hac materia scripserunt, improbantur. Cum rerum de vocum memorabilium indice locupletissimo

Title Variants

Alternative: Amati Lvsitani medici ac philosophi celeberrimi in Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medica materia libris quinque enarrationes ervditissimae

Alternative: In Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medica materia libris quinque enarrationes eruditissimae

Alternative: In Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medica materia libris quinque enarrationes ervditissimae

By

Amato, Lusitano, 1511-1568

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Venetiis, Ex officina Iordani Zilleti, 1557

Notes

Colophon reads: Venetijs ex officina Iordani Ziletti, M D L V I I.

First edition issued in Venice, 1553; this work is a reissue, with a cancel title page.

João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco was the nom-de-plume of Amatus Lusitanus, or Amato Lusitano, the Portuguese physician who trained at the University of Salamanca, was persecuted by the Inquisiiton, and retired from his professional life in the Jewish community in Theddaloniki, Greece.

The text includes references to such American medical plants such as Peruvian balsam, and spices spices such as cinnamon and pepper.

Signatures: *⁶ (*1 verso blank) a-z⁴ A-Z⁴ 2a-2y⁴

Includes indexes in Greek and Latin.

Engraved printer's vignette with scroll "Inter omnes" on title page; initials.

Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), | 124.

European Americana | 557/4.

Text primarily in Latin with some names of herbals in Greek; also contains some scattered passages in Hebrew.

Subjects

Botany, Medical , Cinnamon , De materia medica , Dioscorides Pedanius, , Imprint 1557 , Materia medica, Vegetable , Medicine , of Anazarbos , Pepper (Spice)

Language

Latin

Identifiers

OCLC: 51639737