Search Results: Authors starting with V from BIBLIOPATHOS FINE ARTS

Rare 16th century work on uroscopy
the analysis of urine and its relation to health and disease
by the Italian Humanist Giorgio valla
from the most important medical treatise from the past
First Edition, untrimmed
Valla, Giorgio, Georgii Vallae [...] De Vrinae significatione, ex Hippocrate, Paulo Aeginata, ac Theophilo. : Item Galeni Quaestiones in Hippocratem. Dioclis Epistola, de bona valetudine tuenda, ad Antigonum Regem. Argentine [Strasbourg]: Per Henricum Sybold, [1528].
8vo (15 x 10 cm), untrimmed copy, printer paper binding, pp. [46], signature A-C7, title with decorative woodcut border of putti, woodcut initials imprint; date supplied from British Museum. Short-title catalogue of books printed in the German-speaking countries ... from 1455 to 1600. London, 1962, p. 883.
Rare and important collection of medical text about the analysy of urine and its relation to human health, translated by the renowned Italian Humanist Giorgio Valla from text by Galen, Hippocrates, Paulo Aegineta, Theophilus… Read More

The Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum; rules and precepts for a healthy life:
"mens laeta, requies, moderata diaeta"
Arnaldo de Villanova. De conservanda bona valetudine, opusculum scholae Salernitanae, ad regem Angliae, cum Arnoldi Novicensis ... enarrationibus vtilissimis ... Novissimé impressis, & auctis per Ioan. Curionem, & ab erroribus, accuratissimè repurgatis, & vindicatis ... . Venetiis : apud Petrum Marinellum, 1587
12° (135 x 80 mm), contemporary stiff vellum, handwritten title in sepia ink at spine, cc. [12], 271, [5], printer device at title page.
hygiene standards, food, herbs and their therapeutic indications
The Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum or De conservanda bona valetudine or Flos medicine is a collective, anonymous work, collected and commented in the thirteenth century by the Catalan physician and alchemist Arnaldo da Villanova. It is assumed that the first verses were written around the tenth century, and the it belongs to the tacuina sanitates family, works of encyclopaedic… Read More