Super aphorismos....

Venice: Giunta, 1547 (colophon: 1546). Very Good. Folio (33 cm); [10] 191 [1 blank] leaves. Woodcut Giunta device on title page. Woodcut initials. Text in double columns in roman type. Shoulder notes. In limp vellum, titled in manuscript on spine; lace strips exposed; spine lining old manuscript on vellum, exposed. Small holes in first and last blanks, and inner margin of preliminary leaves. Some dampstaining on last 6 leaves, otherwise a beautiful, large, wide-margined, clean copy . The whole protected in custom built sturdy clamshell case with faux roundback spine covered in brown calf and titled in gilt. Armorial bookplate of John Aitken, with motto "in cruces salus." References: Durling 2565; Camerini 522; Adams J37.

The definitive Giunta edition of the best-known work by Hippocrates (460-370 BCE). Edited with commentary by Giacomo (or Jacopo) da Forlì (d. 1414), this enlarged, improved version is the best edition of the Aphorisms published up to that point (Camerini). It was printed as part of the series of da Forlì's works, which also included his commentaries on Galen and Avicenna. The Aphorisms, translated into Latin by two Humanist scholars, Theodorus Gaza and Nicoll Leoniceno, represent "those remarkable clinical jottings (Garrison) and precise clinical observations, with the diagnoses and prognoses for various diseases. Some of the diseases are described here for the first time, such as chronic renal disease, and many of the accounts are still valid.