CELSUS, Aulus Cornelius In hoc volumine haec continentur Medicinae…Quinti Sereni Liber de medicina…Accedit index in Celsum, et Serenum sane quam copiosus. Venice Aldi, et Andreae Asulani soceri 1528
4to. 172ff. (including t4 blank). Woodcut device on title- and last pages, minimal worming in the text at the beginning, repaired in 4 leaves, some expertly repaired worming in the lower margins, in seventeenth century vellum.
First Aldine edition (Renouard 99/4 is a ghost) – the text was reprinted in the Aldine Medici antiqui omnes in 1547 – of the works of the great first century AD Roman medical writer, here edited by Giovanni Battista Egnazio and dedicated to Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga. At the end is Quintus Serenus’ long poem in hexameters, Medicina. The author was a fabulously rich Roman nobleman at the beginning of the third century AD. He is supposed to have possessed library of 62,000 volumes which he left to his pupil, the future emperor Gordian III. Being a particular friend of the emperor Geta (the son of Septimius Severus) he was murdered by Geta’s brother, Caracalla, on the latter’s elevation to the throne. Seventeenth century ownership inscription on title-page.Censimento CNCE 10745; Renouard 105/1; Adams C1241; Durling 908; Wellcome 1397.
£1800
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