Famous treatise on food and diet by the school of Salerno

École de Salerne [VILLENEUVE, Arnaud de, MAGNINUS mediolansis], CURIO, Johannes (editor).

Conservandae Sanitatis Praecepta Saluberrima; Conservandae Sanitatis Praecepta Salvberrima; Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum; Regi Angliae quondam a Doctribus Scholae Salernitanae versibus conscripta, nunc demum non integritati solum at[que] nitori suo restituta, sed Rhythmis quoq[ue] Germanicis illustrata.

Franc[oforti]: Egen[olphi], 1559.

2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good. Item #001962

8vo (155x100 mm). [12], 279 ll., including title printed in red and black and 60 woodcuts in text by Beham, Schäuffelein and others. Text in Latin and German. Signatures: alpha8, *4, A-Z8, a-m8, colophon on last leaf: Francoforti apud Haeredes Christian Egenolphi, Anno M. D. LIX. 17th-c full vellum, spine lettered in black. Illegible ownership signature to title page. Light browning and little occasional spotting, one page with marginalia in old hand, faint marginal dampstaining to a few final leaves. A handsome copy. ----

VD16 R 579, Wellcome 5376; Adams, S106; Durling 3812; Heirs of Hippocrates 76; Waller 7819; Richter, Egenolffs Erben, 74; Pauli, Beham, p. 500 (No. 1211-19). ). Second, revised and enlarged edition published bei the heirs of Egenolff. The famous treatise on food and diet "Regimen Sanitatis Salernitatum" was compiled for the English King by the medical school of Salerno and is illustrated with numerous woodcuts by H. S. Beham and others. -

Zweite Ausgabe bei Egenolffs Erben. Das berühmte Regiment Sanitatis Salernitanum, das von der medizinischen Schule von Salerno für den englischen König entwickelte Diätkochbuch, hier von dem Erfurter Arzt Curio neu bearbeitet (von diesem erstmals 1538 herausgegeben.

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