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Observationum et curationum medicinalium libri tres. [Leiden], 1586

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Record ID cp011533
Voet reference number 1189
Museum Plantin-Moretus c:lvd:688045
Author Petrus FORESTUS (VAN FOREEST)
Title page transcription OBSERVATIONVM ‖ ET CVRATIONVM ‖ MEDICINALIVM ‖ LIBRI TRES, ‖ Nempe tertius de febribus intermitten- ‖ tibus; quartus de hecticis; ac quin- ‖ tus de febribus compositis. ‖ In quibus earundem causæ, signa, prognoses, ‖ curationes, graphicè depinguntur. ‖ D. PETRO FORESTO Alcmariano, ‖ Medico, Auctore. ‖ ⊕ 44 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Apud Christophorum Plantinum. ‖ M.D.LXXXVI.
Collation 8⁰ [132]: *⁸, A-Z⁸, a-c⁸; pages [1-16], 1-411, [412-416] (Errors: 91 for 61, 191 for 291, 392 for 302, 403 for 303, 226 for 326, 293 for 393, 380 for 398)
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Pages [1]: Title [2]: Blank [3-9]: Eruditione…viris, praefecto urbi, senatui populoq. Alcmariano S.…(s. Petrus Forestus, 1 January 1585; parts in italic type) [10]: P. Nannii Alcmariani Latinae linguae professoris apud Lovanienses, epitaphium…(s. N.F.A.; italic type) [11-16]: Ad studiosum lectorem praefatio (italic type, lines in greek type) 1-411: Text (roman type and italic type, parts in greek type, marginals in roman type) [412-415]: Table (on two columns) [415]: Errata (roman type and italic type) [416]: Blank
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Copies Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 46074; A 14382Cambridge
Bibliographical references Not in Ruelens-de Backer.
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Note 1 Medical treatise on fevers in three 'books', being a continuation of the two books already published in 1584 (see no. cp012500), 'book' three speaking 'de febribus intermittentibus' (1-205), 'book' four 'de febribus hectitis' (206-290), 'book' five 'de febribus compositis' (191 [= for 291]-411).
Note 2 The work was in fact printed at the Officina Plantiniana of Franciscus Raphelengius at Leiden. Part of the edition received a title-page with the Leiden address (a copy in National Library of Medicine, Bethesda [Maryland]); another part one with Plantin's Antwerp imprint.
Note 3 Listed in M 296, folio 13v ([Observationes Medicinales de febribus P. Foresti in 8⁰). libri tres de febribus, f[euilles] 25 [= error for 27], [price:] stuivers 8). Not in Ms. 321.
Note 4 The Officina Plantiniana at Leiden continued to publish in the following years Forestus's series of observations on fevers and other diseases, but there ate no indications that after 1586 copies circulated with the imprint of the Plantin Press at Antwerp.
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