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INTERESTING WORKS ON NUTRITION. REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNITANUM [=The Salernitan Rule of Health]. De conseruanda bona valetudine, scholae Salernitanae opusculum:... Franc., Apud Chr. Egenolphum [Frankfurt am Main, Christian Egenolph], 1553.
Small 8vo (170x110 mm.). (8), 146, (5) ll. Title with woodcut device. With 68 woodcut illustrations in the text, some by Hans Sebald Beham. Edited by J. Curio and J. Crell. Signature on title M. Ernest Hermann (?). A few leaves at the beginning slightly loose, some dampstaining and spotting, small spot to margin in the beginning, some modern notes, a few underlinings, paperloss of margin to leaf 120.

Bound together with:

EOBANUS, HESSUS HELIUS. De tuenda bona valetudine libellus... commentariis. a Ioanne Placotomo. Ejusdem de natura et viribus Cerevisiarum, et Mulsarum opusculum. De causis, preservatione et curatione Ebrietatis, dissertationes. Franc., Apud Chr. Egenolphum [Frankfurt, Christian Egenolph, 1551].
Small 8vo (170x110 mm.). 114, (2) ll. Title with woodcut device. Some spotting and browning, mostly to margins.

Bound in contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, richly blindtooled in a panel design with saints, the centre with floral decor, with metal fittings, lacking clasps, darkend spine in compartments, binding worn and rubbed, darkend, split inner upper joint. Old notes to first free endpaper, verso of last leaf, and inside of boards.

1. Waller 2768. VD 16, ZV 25564. Second Egenolff edition of this well-known collection of general guidelines on nutrition.
The Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum was originally written in Latin as a medieval didactic poem in hexameter verse. The work deals with daily domestic medical practice, including hygiene and diet, what to eat and drink, habits of sleeping and waking a.o. There is also a section on bloodletting. The fine woodcuts depicts for example the making of wine, butchery, herbals, fruits, bread, fish and animals.
´The author as well as the exact date of the Regimen are unknown. It is generally assumed that the collection of verses in Leonine hexameter originated in Salerno between 1260 and 1300 ... As to the author of the Regimen, the list of names includes, among others, Arnald de Villanova, and Johannes Mediolanensis. Arnold of Villanova (1235-1311), tought medicin at the medical school of Montpellier, also dealt with alchemia and chemistry.

2. VD16 E 1467. Dietetical treatise favoring vegetable food by Helius Eobanus Hesse (his actual name was Koch, 1488-1540), prominent humanist and poet,
Reportedly bought at Rönnells antikvariat (Stockholm) in 1990, catalogue 65, no 12.

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6014

Datum:

2020-12-10