PARACELSUS (1493-1541)

Fasciculus Paracelsicae medicinae veteris et non novae per flosculos chimicos et medicos, tanquam in compendiosum promptuarium collectus. In quo de vita, morte, et resuscitatione rerum, de tuenda et conservanda sanitate... Cum elucidationibus huius, aliorumque obscuriorum quorumcunq[ue] locorum atque dictionum inibi passim occurrentium et indice locupletissimo. Gerardo Dorneo interprete ... Impressum Francofroti ad Meonum. Anno M. D. LXXXI. [Colophon:] Impressum Francofforti ad meonum, per Joannem Spies, impensis Sigismundi Feyerabendt. Anno M. D. LXXXI

Frankfurt: Johannes Spies for Sigismund Feyerabend, 1581.
4to: (*)4 A--2P4 2Q2, 158 leaves, ff.[4] 147 [7]. Roman letter with Italic in prelims and index. Woodcut initials, woodcut tailpieces. Plates: Leaf size and condition: 185 x 145mm. Title soiled and frayed in the margins; extensive worming in the lower margins, occasionally affecting text. Moderate to heavy browning and some stains. Binding: Seventeenth-century vellum made from a manuscript leaf, the sides lined with 7 or 8 sheets taken from a German manuscript on paper dated 1687. Cover detatched from book block. Provenance and annotation: Inscription on title, somewhat faded, 'Biblithecae[undeciphered] ex donatione praenobilis domini d. Lotharii [uneciphered] der feltz amptmanni in [undeciphered] Fr. placidus Cringer[?] anno 1696'. Walter Pagel (1896--1983); B. E. J. Pagel (1930--2007). References: Sudhoff 185; Ferguson, Paracelsus 1.
First edition.
§ A handbook of Paracelsian medicine, compiled by Gerard Dorn (c. 1530--1584), alchemist, physician and bibliophile. Dorn had studied with Adam von Bodenstein and, like Bodenstein, rescued and published many of Paracelsus' manuscripts. The first part is a series of short theoretical chapters 'Ex Paracelso'; this is followed by 'De arcanis rerum naturalium ex medicina chemica Paracelsi', a collection of receipts headed 'Paracelsi praeparationes'. The third part is 'De morborum curis', an alphabetical listing of diseases and their treatment. The final section, presumably by Dorn, is 'Paracelsi dictionarium', an alphabetical list of medical terms and their interpretation. There is also an extensive index. Manuscript leaf used for binding: Germany, fifteenth century, in a formal gothic book hand. Text: Five readings from Isaiah for the Divine Office during Advent; possibly from a book intended for use in a secular (rather than a monastic) church since one of the readings bears a rubric in a later hand, [lectio viii?] followed by another reading without legible rubric (but presumably the 9th reading); the two following readings have rubrics as the first and the second lessons. (Consuelo W. Dutschke.)

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