Montanus, Opuscula uaria ac praeclara, 1558

loan. Baptistae MONTANI MEDICI CLARISS. in celeberrima academia Patauina summa cum laude olim professoris, Opuscula ua-ria ac praeclara: in quibus tota ferè Medi-cina methodicè explicatur, quorum nomina sequens pagina declarat. Ommia, post alios eruditos uiros qui in eis corrigendis desudarunt, nunc tandem HIERONIMI DONZELLINI Medici ac Philosophi Brixiani opera ab infinitus propè mendis uin-dicata, atq; in duo uolumina digesta. Cum locuplete rerum & uerborum memorabilium Indice. BASILEAE, Per Petrum Pernam. 1558
 
Original limp vellum, thongs mostly torn, and one tie remaining. Vellum separating from text block revealing attractive binder’s waste (vellum, extracted from a Latin copy of Aristotle’s Topica, with beautifully scribed single column in black, and title in alternating red and blue letters). Decorative capitals. One folding chart at pg 320. 18th century ink inscription on first blank. Ink hand written Tomus Primus on title page. Early ink marginalia at k8, l1, and l3. Damp stain along top edge into text, most robust at front of book and fading toward rear. Bottom corner rodent chewed, but remote from text as margins are ample, and lessening until gone about pg 309. Volume 1 only, of 2.
 
α-γ^8, δ^3, blank, a -z^8, errata & colophon, 2 blanks.
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See Heirs 132 for the author: “Giovanni Battista Da Monte (1498-1551) … better known by his Latin cognomen, Montanus, was not only a very successful physician and teacher, but a noted poet as well. A fellow-student of Vesalius at Padua, he later taught at Padua, and his practical instructions to students mark the beginning of clinical instruction in which he instituted besdie teaching, one of his most notable achievements. Called ‘the second Galen,’ he was one of a group of medical humanists who were instrumental in reviving the Greek medical classics and eclipsing the influence and teachings of the Arabist school.”