The School of Salerno

REGIMEN SANITATIS - THE SCHOOL OF SALERNO. JOANNE DE MEDIOLANO. Schola Salernitana, Sive De conservanda Valetudine praeceptae Metrica. Cum Luculenta & Succincta Arnoldi Villanovani in Singula Capita Exegesi. Ex Recensione Zchariae Sylvii, Medici Roterodamensis. Cum Ejusdem Praefatione. Nova Editio... Roterodami (Arnoldi Leers) 1657.

12:o (about 125x67 mm. (46), 1-517, (11) pp. Engraved extra title (worn in outer margin).
Contemporary vellum, somewhat worn and soiled. Some underlinings and marginal annotations to text. Old signature on title. Bookplate.

The Schola Medica Salernitana was a Medieval medical school, the first and most important of its kind. Situated on the Tyrrhenian Sea in the south Italian city of Salerno, it was founded in the 9th century and rose to prominence in the 10th century, becoming the most important source of medical knowledge in Western Europe at the time. (Wikipedia).

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