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GORDON, Lilium medicinae, 1574

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GORDON, Bernard (de). 

Bernardi Gordonii opus, lilium medicinae inscriptum de morborum propre omnium curatione septem particulis distributum. 

Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1574.

8vo (167x107 mm), 1115-(32) pages.  binding : Contemporary full vellum. Waterstains at the end. 

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A major work by Bernard de Gordon, Montpellier doctor from the beginning of the 15th century. He exposes there a knowledge heir to the knowledge of medicine of the Middle Ages.
The first mention of spectacles is found in the Lilium medicinae.

references: Heirs of Hippocrates [94.6 :"This enlarged edition contains the De phlebotomia, De conservatione vitae humane, & De floribus diaetarum, not found in Roville’s edition of 1550. The Lillium Medicina was first published in Venice in 1496. It is a “characteristic Arabist text-book of the practice of medicine” (Garrison, p. 164), arranged, as such works were in the Middle Ages, a capite ad calcem. The book is notable in containing the first description of a modern tress & the first mention of spectacles as oculus berellinus"].

Price : 1500 €

Photo GORDON, Bernard (de). 
Photo GORDON, Bernard (de). 
Photo GORDON, Bernard (de). 
Photo GORDON, Bernard (de). 
Photo GORDON, Bernard (de). 
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