Pedakíou Dioskorídou anazarbeōs perì hulēs iatrikēs logoi hex.

Accession number: 
PML 738
Author: 
Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos.
Published: 
Venetiis : Apud Aldum, mense Iulio. M.ID. [July 1499]
Description: 
[184] leaves ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes: 

Title from contents list (leaf *1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf [Epsilon]6r).
Dated by CIBN to after 8 July based on Aldus's dedicatory letter to Hieronymus Donatus.
Printed in Aldus's types 2:114R and 7:114Gr.
Signatures: *⁶; [alpha]-[omicron]⁸ [pi]¹⁰; [Alpha]-[Delta]⁸ [Epsilon]⁶; ²[alpha]¹⁰: 184 leaves, leaf [pi]10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Included are the Theriaca and Alexipharmaca of Nicander and the Scholia of Nicander's Alexipharmaca. Some copies lack the Scholia. Cf. BM 15th cent. and GW.
Title and text in Greek; preface and colophon in Latin.
In three parts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31 x 20.4 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century French gilt-tooled black, straight-grained morocco over paper boards (32 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Bozerian Jeune. Morocco doublures with plain vellum and paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary Italian or Latin marginal notations in Nicander's Theriaca, bleached/faded.

Provenance: 
Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); his sale, Evans (London), 23 June 1834, lot 628 to Cimitile for £2.8.0; Fabio Albertini, principe di Cimitile (1775-1848); Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased in 1835 from Payne & Foss, armorial booklabel (front pastedown); James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878, Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books