| Record ID | cp011468 |
| Voet reference number | 2492 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3222206 |
| Author | Carolus WITTESTEYN |
| Title page transcription | CAROLI WITTESTEYN, ‖ SEV A PETRA ALBA, ‖ PLACENTINI, ‖ Vera totius Medicinæ forma. ‖ Ad Serenissimum Alexandrum Farnesium, ‖ Placentiæ & Parmæ Ducem, ac Germaniæ ‖ Inferioris Proregem. ‖ ⊕ 21 ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D. LXXXVIII. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [131]:*-**⁸, A-Z⁸, a⁸; pages [1-32], 1-367, [368-384] |
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| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, 16 November 1587, signed by I. de Berty) [3-22]: Serenmo Alexandro Farnesio, Placentiae et Parmae duci… [23-32]: Praefatio (italic type) 1-367: Text (parts in italic type, marginals in italic type and roman type) 367: approbation (Antwerp, 12 January 1588, s. Michael Hetsroey Breugel) [368]: Blank [369]: Auctor ad lectorem (italic type) [370]: Carolo Wittesteyn, serenissimi Parmae et Placentiae ducis, totiusque Belgii proregis, doctore medico, Christophorus Plantinus S [371]: Table (italic type) [372-383]: Index (on two columns) [384]: Blank |
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| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 1701KBR Royal Library of BelgiumCambridgeRoyal Library of San Lorenzo de El EscorialBritish Library London |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 311 (1588, no. 24) |
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| Note 1 | Treatise on medicine, bearing more on theory and generalities than on the practical aspects. |
| Note 2 | In the dedicatory to Alexander Farnese, the author specifies that he had been physician to Margaret of Parma during 18 years; that, after her death [in Italy, 18 January 1586], he came [to the Netherlands] to pay his respects to her son and was accepted as his 'familiaris'. |
| Note 3 | In the note of the author to the reader (page [369]), Wittesteyn asks to condone eventual omissions, as his work was largely written while being in the army and in the army-camps in the Netherlands. |
| Note 4 | Plantin's letter to Wittesteyn has been reproduced in Corr., VIII-IX, no. 1338. |
| Note 5 | Listed in M 296, folio 19v (Wittesteyn Caroli forma medicinȩ, 8⁰, f[euilles] 26, [price:] stuivers 10, 1588), and M 321. |
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