Author
Monardes, Nicolás, approximately 1512-1588
Uniform title
Historia medicinal. Latin
Title
Simplicium medicamentorum ex nouo orbe delatorum, quorum in medicina vsus est, historia, / Hispanico sermone descripta à D. Nicolao Monardis, Hispalensi medico; Latio deinde donata, & annotationibus, iconibúsque affabrè depictis illustrata à Carolo Clusio Atrebate..
Varying form of title
Simplicivm medicamentorvm ex novo orbe delatorvm, qvorvm in medicina vsvs est, historia
Edition
Altera editio..
Imprint
Antuerpiæ, : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, Architypographi Regij., M. D. LXXIX. [1579]
Physical description
84, [4] p. : ill. ; 17 cm (8vo)
Note
Printer's device on title page with motto "Labore et constantia".
Note
A somewhat altered version of Monardes' Dos libros ... (1565 and 1569) and Segunda parte ... (1571).
Note
Translation into Latin from the original Spanish of the 3rd section of "Primera y segunda y tercera partes de la historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales", published in 1574.
Note
Signatures: a-e⁸ f⁴.
Note
Includes index.
Note
Errata on leaf f4r.
Note
The last page is blank.
Note
Woodcut initial.
Note
Printed marginalia.
Citation/references note
Adams, M1593
Citation/references note
Guerra, F. Monardes, 21
Citation/references note
CLC, M1363
Provenance
"Balthasar Pogwisch Cimber" inscribed on upper endleaf; "Ex bibliotheca nobiliss. Balthzari Pogwische 85" inscribed on title page of first item in volume (crossed out, but somewhat legible). Possibly the same as Balthasar Pogwisch (1543-1587), who was canon of Lübeck Cathedral 1586-1587. See Germania Sacra Die Kirche des Alten Reiches und Ihre Institutionen: https://rep.adw-goe.de/bitstream/handle/11858/2420/PS2_Luebeck.pdf?sequence=7&isAllowed=y
Provenance
"Paulus Adam" inscribed at head of title page of first item in volume.
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
Germanic?; 16th-century pigskin; boards decorated with blind fillets and rolls forming concentric rectangular frames, within which are corner stamps and a centrepiece stamp; sewn on four tawed leather supports; spine with four raised bands, and blind fillets at head and tail; text block edges stained red; titles of items written in ink on fore-edge; later spine label with title: "Busbequii Itinera"; parchment manscript waste used as spine lining.
Copy-specific note
Illustration on leaf f4r has been hand-coloured.
Copy-specific note
Infrequent manuscript marginal notes and underlining.
Copy-specific note
Bound with five further works printed by Plantin, mostly about botany and materia medica. There is a manuscript list of the volume's contents on the upper free endleaf.
Copy-specific note
Manuscript notes on endleaves, some obscured by bookplate.
Subject
Materia medica West Indies Early works to 1800.
Subject
Botany, Medical Spanish America Early works to 1800.
Subject
Botany Pre-Linnean works.
Subject
America (Place) Discovery and exploration Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609 translator.
Added entry--name
Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589 printer.
Added entry--name
Pogwisch, Balthasar, active 16th-century former owner.
Added entry--name
Plantijnsche Drukkerij printer.
Added entry--place
Belgium Antwerp.
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