GALENUS, Claudius (c.130-c.200). Opera, in Latin. Edited by Andreas Leennius. Basel: Andreas Cratander, March 1529. 2° (315 x 204 mm). 586 leaves, gatherings KK and LL transposed. Woodcut printer's device showing Occasio after Hans Holbein the younger on title and at end, woodcut 4-part border on a1r, woodcut initials opening each book, text diagram on 162v. (Light dampstain at lower margin with resultant weakening or marginal tears, reinforced on title verso, first and last few leaves with light paper loss and a very few wormtracks not affecting text, a very few paper repairs not affecting text.) Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over thin pasteboard, panelled with scrolling floral rolls, central rose tools, Maria tools in spine compartments, modern morocco-backed solander box (without ties, rubbed, a little weakened at lower edge). Provenance: Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566; his annotations throughout). FUCHS'S COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED COPY OF THE 'BIBLE' OF CLASSICAL MEDICINE. 'For nearly fifteen hundred years [Galen's] authority was unassailable and every medical question was automatically referred to him: there was no appeal' (PMM, p. 18). The first effective break with Galen's powerful influence came only with Vesalius's monumental De humani corporis fabrica , published a year after Fuchs's De historia stirpium commentarii (1542), itself 'perhaps the most celebrated and most beautiful herbal every published' (PMM, p. 41). Fuchs's remarkable herbal makes ample reference to Galen's work. A confirmed Galenist, Fuchs was at his most intense period of study of Galen when he annotated the present volume. He dated his reading in 3 principal sections: De morbis curandis from June to September 1537, De crisibus from May to November 1538, and De locis affectis from March to June 1539. The readings almost certainly relate to his lectures on Galen at the University of Tübingen, but during this period he was also finalising his (with Camerarius and Gemusaeus) new edition of Galen in Greek, printed at Basel by Cratander in 1538, and was involved in a dispute fought through publications with Sebastien de Monteux concerning Galen vs. Mondino and Benedetti. In 1546 Fuchs published his commentary on Galen's De curatione per sanguinis missionem and in 1551 his epitome of human anatomy taken from both Galen and Vesalius. Fuchs's annotations show a very close reading of the text and correction of the translation, demonstrating his profound knowledge of the material and indicating active collation with other sources. Fuchs's Galen is previously unknown - it is not recorded in either Meyer or the recent catalogue of the Fuchs exhibition at Tübingen, and no books from Fuchs's library are known to have been offered at auction. Meyer (et al. eds.) The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs (Stanford: 1999); Brinkus & Pachnike Leonhart Fuchs. Katalog zur Ausstellung (Tübingen: 2001); Wellcome I, 2511; Durling 1784; PMM 33 (1490 ed).
GALENUS, Claudius (c.130-c.200). Opera, in Latin. Edited by Andreas Leennius. Basel: Andreas Cratander, March 1529. 2° (315 x 204 mm). 586 leaves, gatherings KK and LL transposed. Woodcut printer's device showing Occasio after Hans Holbein the younger on title and at end, woodcut 4-part border on a1r, woodcut initials opening each book, text diagram on 162v. (Light dampstain at lower margin with resultant weakening or marginal tears, reinforced on title verso, first and last few leaves with light paper loss and a very few wormtracks not affecting text, a very few paper repairs not affecting text.) Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over thin pasteboard, panelled with scrolling floral rolls, central rose tools, Maria tools in spine compartments, modern morocco-backed solander box (without ties, rubbed, a little weakened at lower edge). Provenance: Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566; his annotations throughout). FUCHS'S COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED COPY OF THE 'BIBLE' OF CLASSICAL MEDICINE. 'For nearly fifteen hundred years [Galen's] authority was unassailable and every medical question was automatically referred to him: there was no appeal' (PMM, p. 18). The first effective break with Galen's powerful influence came only with Vesalius's monumental De humani corporis fabrica , published a year after Fuchs's De historia stirpium commentarii (1542), itself 'perhaps the most celebrated and most beautiful herbal every published' (PMM, p. 41). Fuchs's remarkable herbal makes ample reference to Galen's work. A confirmed Galenist, Fuchs was at his most intense period of study of Galen when he annotated the present volume. He dated his reading in 3 principal sections: De morbis curandis from June to September 1537, De crisibus from May to November 1538, and De locis affectis from March to June 1539. The readings almost certainly relate to his lectures on Galen at the University of Tübingen, but during this period he was also finalising his (with Camerarius and Gemusaeus) new edition of Galen in Greek, printed at Basel by Cratander in 1538, and was involved in a dispute fought through publications with Sebastien de Monteux concerning Galen vs. Mondino and Benedetti. In 1546 Fuchs published his commentary on Galen's De curatione per sanguinis missionem and in 1551 his epitome of human anatomy taken from both Galen and Vesalius. Fuchs's annotations show a very close reading of the text and correction of the translation, demonstrating his profound knowledge of the material and indicating active collation with other sources. Fuchs's Galen is previously unknown - it is not recorded in either Meyer or the recent catalogue of the Fuchs exhibition at Tübingen, and no books from Fuchs's library are known to have been offered at auction. Meyer (et al. eds.) The Great Herbal of Leonhart Fuchs (Stanford: 1999); Brinkus & Pachnike Leonhart Fuchs. Katalog zur Ausstellung (Tübingen: 2001); Wellcome I, 2511; Durling 1784; PMM 33 (1490 ed).
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