Mesue, Used (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. EARLY TREATISE ON PHARMACOLOGY. Originally published between 1489 and 1491 by the apothecary and physician from Ascoli Piceno Saladino Ferro - author of the Compendium aromatariorum, the first pharmaceutical manual of modern period - this anthology collects all the texts that, in the opinion of the curator, were essential for the study of the art of apothecaries. It includes: Canones universales and Antidotarium by Mesue the Younger, or Pseudo-Mesue (d. 1015), a treatise on treatment regimens and a collection of pharmaceutical recipes, with commentaries and notes on the latter one by Pietro d Abano (c. 1257 - 1316), Francesco da Piedimonte (d. 1320), Mondino de Luzzi (c. 1270 - 1326), Cristoforo degli Onesti (d. 1392); an XI-XII century collection of recipes for the preparation of pharmaceuticals of vegetal and mineral origin called Antidotarium Nicolai, with commentary and explanatory notes by Matteo Plateario (d. 1161) and Jean de Saint-Amand (d. 1312); two different treatises by Niccolà Salernitano (also known as Nicolaus Prepositus, XII century); the Liber servitoris by the Arab physician, surgeon and chemist al-Zahrawi (936 - 1013), being the 28th chapter of his encyclopaedic work on medical practices called The Method of Medicine (Kitab at-Tasrif), devoted to pharmacy and pharmaceutical technics; and finally the seventh edition of Ferro s Compendium. BOOK DETAILS AND CONDITION: Folio, 379, [1] leaves; sign.: a-z8, &8, [con]8, [rum]8, A-X8, Y4 (leaf Y4 blank). Slightly later limp vellum. Title page printed in red, gothic fonts of different sizes, text on two columns. Small restorations, duststains and traces of use on the first two and the last quire. Extremely scarce edition of one of the first collections of pharmacy texts ever printed. Overall condition: very good. RARITY: USTC lists nine extant copies in the world's libraries. The only US copy is at the NLM. Two copies have sold at auction in the last century.

Well-made but popularly priced Lyon 8vo edition of Mesue's three seminal pharmacological works, including his great pharmacological handbook, the principal model for the European pharmacopoeias, translated into Latin by Jacques Dubois/Jacobus Sylvius (1478-1555), who taught anatomy at Paris (his students including Vesalius and Gesner). Dubois first published it in a Paris folio edition in 1542. Speaking of the "artisanal epistemology" crucial to the European scientific revolution, De Vos calls Mesue's present works "a conduit for the Arabic contributions to that epistemology and its subsequent development and impact", describing them as "the most dominant source of pharmaceutical writings" and "by far the most influential in the subsequent development of European pharmacy", with Dubois's new Latin translation "of particular note" (pp. 668, 670, 673). It is by far the most detailed and extensive mediaeval book of pharmacological recipes, far surpassing the 12th-century Antidotarium Nicolai, which had been the standard work in Europe. Not only does it include 432 recipes for compound medications (compared with Nicolai's 85), it arranges them by the kind of medicine, rather than alphabetically, and unlike Nicolai it gives detailed instructions for their preparation. It largely superseded Nicolai in Europe in the late 1300s and early 1400s. Although Mesue and his present works have fallen into undeserved obscurity in the general public, they went through more editions than Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Galen or Discorides.If the attribution to "Joannis Mesuae Damasceni" is correct, the author must be Yahya (= Yuhanna) ibn Masawaih al-Mardini (ca. 925-1015), known in the West as Mesue the younger.Provenance: 1) owner's inscription in ink, dated 1636, struck through and difficult to decipher, on front paste-down; 2) another dated 21 August 1818, on back paste-down, also difficult to read; 3) 19th-century ink owner's inscription of Arthur Rénaux on front paste-down. Occasional browning; an owner's inscription(?) erased on the title-page with slight loss to author's name. Binding rubbed; hinges cracked and minor chips in the spine.l Baudrier IX, 176; Durling 3144; USTC 150499; Wellcome 4280; cf. Hirsch I, 171f; not in BMC STC French; for Mesue and the present works: Paula De Vos, "The 'Prince of Medicine': Yuhanna ibn Masawayh and the foundations of the Western pharmaceutical tradition", in: Isis, 104 (2013), pp. 667-712; Prioreschi, History of medicine, IV (Byzantine and Islamic), pp. 290-291. 19th-century marbled boards, manuscript spine label. With Rouillé's woodcut device on the title-page (eagle on a globe, flanked by 2 snakes), numerous woodcut decorated initials, and an arabesque decoration below the colophon. Pages: [16], 421, [1], [2 blank] pp.

4to (145 x 198 mm). (34) ff. Half calf over marbled overs (ca. 1900) with gold-tooled red label to gilt spine. All edges sprinkled red. Almost unobtainably rare first edition of this digest of medical prescriptions, taken from the works of the highly-regarded Arabic physician Mesue the Younger (also known as Masawaih al-Mardini), including "a kind of general manual for apothecaries and perfumers" (Duveen). All recipes are in Italian, while the main title and the headings are in Latin. Bibliographers are not agreed on the book's place or date of publication: GW locates it merely in Italy, ca. 1495, whereas Copinger believes it was printed in Venice, by an unidentified printer, in or around 1500. The British Museum Short-Title Catalogue suggests Sigismund Mayr in Naples as the printer and 1510 as possible year of publication, while the British Library's catalogue now appears to prefer Venice and 1505 as tentative place and year. Klebs notes that the collection constitutes a "rifacimento" of the Italian edition of Mesue's "Opera medicinalia", published in Venice on 12 December 1493. - Contemporary ink ownership to title-page. A restored tear in the final leaf (not affecting the text), some brown specks on the title-page and an insignificant waterstain along the lower edge of the final gathering, but altogether in excellent condition. Rebound in a pretty half-calf binding around the turn of the century. Only two copies in libraries internationally (British Library and Univ. of Wisconsin, formerly the Duveen copy). That in the British Library is incomplete, lacking the final leaf (falsely described by Copinger as having a final blank leaf, which is in fact the endpaper). - Copinger 4011. GW M23031. Klebs 228 (note). Proctor 7427. ISTC im00521400. USTC 842290. BM-STC Italian 739. Duveen 651. Edit 16, CNCE 50479.

8vo. (16), 421, (1) pp., final blank leaf. With woodcut printer's device to title-page and numerous woodcut initials. 19th century marbled boards. Fine, widely received Lyonnaise edition of Mesue's pharmaceutical handbook, translated into Latin by Jacques Dubois, the teacher of Vesalius. The author's frequently reprinted treatises bore an immense influence on the development of pharmacy in early modern Europe. Although the identity of Masawaih (Mesue) remains unclear, he was likely a Persian Christian physician who headed the Baghdad hospital and served as personal physician to several caliphs (though he may also be a collective pseudonym of several Arabic medical writers of the 10th and 11th centuries). Products of the medieval Islamic world, the works attached to his name contained many innovations that provided the basis for the theory and practice of pharmacy for centuries and perfectly met the demands of the developing medical marketplace of medieval Europe. - Occasional browning; an irregular paper flaw to the upper edge of the title with slight loss to author's name (apparently removing a contemporary ownership). Binding rubbed; spine professionally repaired. Provenance: 1) an illegible ink ownership, dated 1636, stricken out on front pastedown; 2) another illegible ink ownership, dated 21 August 1818, on lower pastedown; 3) 19th century ink ownership of Arthur Rénaux to front pastedown. - Durling 3144. Wellcome 4280. Brunet III, 1675. Not in BM-STC French. Cf. GAL I, 232; S I, 416. Hirsch I, 171f.

. 17 cm. 8 h., 364 pág. Apostillas marginales. Ilustr. con marca tipográfica en la portada, capitales y viñetas. Enc. en pergamino. Restauraciones en la portada y las primeras hojas. * Juan Mesue (su nombre en realidad es Yahya ibn Masawaih, vivió entre 777 y 857 aproximadamente) médico y científico árabe. Su obra tuvo una gran influencia durante la Edad Media y el Renacimiento en el ámbito de la medicina y especialmente en la farmacia, ya que se refiere sobre todo a la elaboración de medicamentos a partir de las plantas. Farmacología.

2 parts in 1 volume. Second illustrated edition, the first with the commentary of Costaeus, of the collected works of the Arabic physician Mesue the younger (also known as Masawaih al-Mardini), in Latin, with commentaries by Mondino de Liuzzi, Christoph de Honestis, Jacobus Sylvius, Giovanni Mardi and Johannes Costaeus. It includes the "Canones universalis", dealing with treatment regimens; the second part, "De simplicibus", about the properties of various pharmaceutical drugs; and the Grabadin, "the most popular compendium of drugs in medieval Europe, and . used everywhere in their preparation" (Garrison). "The esteem in which these works were held is shown by the fact that a Latin translation of both was one of the first medical works to be printed (Venice, 1471)" (ibid.).With the bookplate of the American botanist Edward Sandford Burgess (1855-1928) on the front paste-down. Also with the bookplate of the Horticultural Society of New York on the first free endpaper, identifying this volume as part of the bequest of the American attorney and plant collector Kenneth Kent MacKenzie (1877-1934). Binding stained, rubbed and chipped at the extremities. Interior shows occasional brown stains, modern endpapers a little browned and brittle, but overall in good condition.l Adams Y10; BM STC Italian, p. 739; Durling 3131; EDIT 16, CNCE 27626. Near-contemporary vellum, black morocco spine label with title in gold. With 39 woodcut illustrations in the text. Pages: [8], 272; [6], 277, [1 blank], [12] ll.

Rare Venetian edition with a false Paris imprint, of Mesue's three seminal pharmacological works, including his great pharmacological handbook, the principal model for the European pharmacopoeias, translated into Latin by Jacques Dubois/Jacobus Sylvius (1478-1555), who taught anatomy at Paris (his students including Vesalius and Gesner). Dubois first published it in a Paris folio edition in 1542. As far as we know, the present edition has not previously been recognised as a false imprint, but Girolamo Scotto in Venice used the woodcut device on the title-page in 1543 (Bernstein, Music printing, p. 88 & fig. 3.16: much more "artistic" than most publishers' devices, so perhaps made to illustrate an unidentified book) and the woodcut pictorial initial on r8r also appears in Lippomano, Espositioni volgare, Venice, Girolamo Scotto, 1554 (A4r), where some of the types match as well. Moreover, the 2 initials in the largest series (A on l2v and H on e2v) show respectively: another Scotto device (anchor with "S O S" and the motto "in tenebris fulget": see Scotto's 1554 Lippomano, 1555 Aquinas and his heirs' 1585 Monte, Madrigali) and the coat of arms of the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany (dexter) impaled with a tree atop six mounts (sinister).De Vos calls Mesue's present works "a conduit for the Arabic contributions to that epistemology and its subsequent development and impact", describing them as "the most dominant source of pharmaceutical writings" and "by far the most influential in the subsequent development of European pharmacy", with Dubois's new Latin translation "of particular note" (pp. 668, 670, 673). Though these Mesue works had been printed already in 1471, Dubois's translation became the standard, De Vos counting 17 editions in less than a century. The preliminaries include the title-page, Dubois's 7-page dedicatory epistle addressed to Etienne de Poncher (1446-1529), Bishop of Bayonne and chancellor of the University of Paris, and an 8-page contents covering all three works. The three Mesue works follow: "Methodus medicamenta purgantia simplicissima deligendi & castigandi, theorematis quatuor absolutus" [= Canones universales?], ll. 1r-33v (13 chapters); "De singulis medicamentis purgantibus deligendis & castigandis" [= De simplicibus], ll. 34r-82v (30 chapters); and "De antidotis" [= Antidotarium or Grabadin], ll. 82v-239r (12 sections); followed by definitions of the technical words, ll. 239v-248r, and a 9-page table of contents for all three works. Dubois's version of the first work differs considerably from earlier editions, where it bore the title Canones universales. It describes general techniques in the preparation of medicines and was originally closely associated with the "simples" in the following work, but it was given a much broader application. The De simplicibus, originally gave information on 49 "simples" (mostly purgatives) here expanded to 53. Although it includes many known since classical antiquity, more than a fourth are additions made by the mediaeval Arabic physicians. The bulk of the book is devoted to the Antidotarium (also called Garbadin, after the Arabic for "dispensary"). It is by far the most detailed and extensive mediaeval book of pharmacological recipes, far surpassing the 12th-century Antidotarium Nicolai, which had been the standard work in Europe. Not only does it include 432 recipes for compound medications (compared with Nicolai's 85), it arranges them by the kind of medicine, rather than alphabetically, and unlike Nicolai it gives detailed instructions for their preparation. It largely superseded Nicolai in Europe in the late 1300s and early 1400s. Although Mesue and his present works have fallen into undeserved obscurity in the general public, they went through more editions than Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Galen or Discorides.If the attribution to "Joannis Mesuae Damasceni" is correct, the author must be Yahya (= Yuhanna) ibn Masawaih al-Mardini (ca. 925-1015), known in the West as Mesue the younger. He is said to have been a Syrian (Jacobite/Nestorian) Christian physician from Mardin in upper Mesopotamia (now on the Turkish-Syrian border, who worked in Damascas, may have headed the Baghdad hospital, served as personal physician to caliphs in Cairo and wrote in Arabic. His present principal works are now known, however, from Latin translations, the earliest from 1281, and De Vos even suggests they may have been compiled in Bologna after 1260, adapting several unidentified Arabic medical works of the 10th and 11th centuries to 13th-century European needs. She notes that Dubois published a "new" Latin translation in 1542 and emphasises its importance, but she does not discuss his sources (he was well-versed in Greek and Hebrew, but apparently not in Arabic). In any case, the writings attributed to Mesue the younger clearly derive from the mediaeval Islamic world and contain many innovations that provided the basis for the theory and practice of pharmacology for centuries and perfectly met the demands of the developing medical marketplace of mediaeval Europe. The early Paris folio editions of Dubois's translation would have been out of reach of most students and country or small town physicians or apothecaries, so Lyon printers introduced 8vo editions in 1548. The present 8vo edition appears to be the first outside Lyon and Scotto may have thought a false Paris imprint would make it seem more authentic than the Lyon competitors.With faint brown stains, some marginal worming near the end of the text and the corner of Aa3 lost (not affecting the text).l Durling 3145; ICCU, NAPE 006561 (8 copies); USTC 151259 (2 copies); WorldCat (9 copies in 7 entries); cf. Brockelmann, GAL I, 232; Hirsch I, 171f; not in Adams; BM STC French; EDIT 16; Wellcome; for Mesue and the present works: Paula De Vos, "The 'Prince of Medicine': Yuhanna ibn Masawayh and the foundations of the Western pharmaceutical tradition", in: Isis, 104 (2013), pp. 667-712; Prioreschi, History o.

Folio (230 x 338 mm). 2 parts in 1 volume. (8), 272 ff. (6), 277, (1 blank), (12) ff. With 39 woodcut illustrations in text. Near-contemporary full vellum on four raised bands with giltstamped red spine label. Second illustrated edition, the first with the commentary of Costaeus, of the collected works of the Arabic physician Mesue the Younger (also known as Masawaih al-Mardini) in Latin, with commentaries by Mondino de Liuzzi, Christoph de Honestis, Jacobus Sylvius, Giovanni mardi and Johannes Costaeus. - The work includes the "Canones universalis", dealing with treatment regimens; the second part, "De simplicibus", about the properties of various pharmaceutical drugs; and the Grabadin, "the most popular compendium of drugs in medieval Europe, and [.] used everywhere in their preparation" (Garrison). "The esteem in which these works were held is shown by the fact that a Latin translation of both was one of the first medical works to be printed (Venice, 1471)" (ibid.). - Binding stained; rubbed and chipped at extremeties. Interior shows occasional brownstaining. Modern flyleaves browned and brittle. Provenance: bookplates of the American botanist Edward Sandford Burgess (1855-1928) and of the Horticultural Society of New York, identifiying this volume as part of the bequest of the American attorney and plant collector Kenneth Kent MacKenzie (1877-1934). - Durling 3131. Adams Y 10. BM-STC Italian 739. Edit 16, CNCE 27626.

8vo. 248, (4) ff. With emblematic woodcut device to title (apparently showing Abderus being devoured by the mares of Diomedes) and several woodcut initials. Contemporary full vellum with traces of ties. Uncommon and finely produced edition, by an unidentified Parisian printer, of Mesue's pharmaceutical handbook, translated into Latin by Jacques Dubois, the teacher of Vesalius. The author's frequently reprinted treatises bore an immense influence on the development of pharmacy in early modern Europe. Although the identity of Masawaih (Mesue) remains unclear, he was likely a Persian Christian physician who headed the Baghdad hospital and served as personal physician to several caliphs (though he may also be a collective pseudonym of several Arabic medical writers of the 10th and 11th centuries). Products of the medieval Islamic world, the works attached to his name contained many innovations that provided the basis for the theory and practice of pharmacy for centuries and perfectly met the demands of the developing medical marketplace of medieval Europe. - Slight brownstaining with some marginal worming near the end of the text. Loss of corner to fol. Aa3 (not affecting the text). - Durling 3145. OCLC 14308627. Not in Wellcome, Adams or BM-STC French. Cf. GAL I, 232; S I, 416. Hirsch I, 171f.

Lugduni [ Lyon ] : Apud Gulielmum Rouillium [ Guillaume Rouillé (colophon: imprimé par Philibert Rollet)], 1550. In-8 (16)-421-(1)pp. Exemplaire où il manque la page de titre et la première page de l'épître, ici remplacées par deux photocopies, usures sur la dernière page de l'index dont un manque marginal, plat avant et dos absents, plat arrière d'origine abîmé, dos recouvert de sparadrap, intérieur en très bon état sans taches ni rousseurs. Format 11 x 16,6 cm. Les trois traités du médecin irakien des VIIIe et IXe siècles Mésué le jeune (0777-0857) accompagnés des commentaires du grammairien et médecin français Jacques Dubois, ou Jacques Sylvius (1478-1555) est parue en 1542 à Paris. Les trois traités qui composent ce recueil se rapportent à la pharmacopée, matière dont Jacques Dubois était spécialiste ; c'est d'ailleurs lui qui le premier utilisa le terme grec de pharmacopée pour désigner les connaissances nécessaires à la fois au médecin et à l'apothicaire. Le premier texte est le Methodus medicamenta purgentia, le second le De Singulis medicamentis purgantibus deligendis & castigandis et le troisième l'Antidotarium. C'est ce dernier traité qui est la principale oeuvre de Mésué ; il y présente des recettes par type de composition à travers douze chapitres consacrés aux électuaires, opiates, solutions, confections, looch, sirops, décoctions, trochisques, pilules, poudres, emplâtres, huiles, etc. C'est en outre dans ce livre que sont insérées plusieurs recettes culinaires, de friandises en particulier, qui font que certains considèrent Mésué comme le père de la confiserie moderne. Livre ancien.

Parisiis, Ap. Aegidium Gorbinum, 1561, 8ff. (titre, épistola nuncupatoria, index), 200 feuillets (un numéro pour 2 pages), 1f.blanc, parchemin crème, date manuscrite sur le dos. Des mouillures et quelques rousseurs, page de titre dégradée avec manque de papier, parchemin sali, dos fendu à l'intérieur du bloc-livre. Ouvrage complet. Edition parisienne de 1561 (cf BNF).Methodus medicamenta purgentia et De singularis medicamentis purgantibus, suivi de : Antidotarium, le grand ouvrage de Mésué. Il est accompagné des commentaires de Jacques Dubois (Sylvius, 1478-1554). Yuhanna ibn Masawaih ou Yahya ibn Masawaih (en arabe « Jean fils de Mésué »), connu autrefois en Occident sous le nom de Jean Mésué, est un médecin Perse ou Assyrien chrétien, appartenant à l'Église nestorienne, né à Bagdad sous le règne d'Hâroun ar-Rachîd, mort à Samarra en 857.