VERY RARE EDITION PRINTED IN VENICE OF THE MEDIEVAL MAIN TEXTBOOK OF PHARMACOLOGY BY THE JACOBITE CHRISTIAN DOCTOR JOHANNES MESUE

Mesue, Johannes. Canones vniuersales diui Mesue de consolatione medicinarum & correctione operationum earundem. Grabadin eiusdem Mesue medicinarum vniuersalium quod antidotarium nuncupatur. Liber eiusdem medicinarum particularium. Additio Petri Apponi medici clarissimi in librum Ioannis Mesue. Antidotarium domini Nicolai. (Impressum Venetiis: per Gregorium de Gregoriis, 1513 die vero 15 mensis Iulii).

8vo (142x94 mm), nineteenth century full mottled leather binding, with three raised bands at spine, gilt title and decorations at spine, brown and red sprinkled edges; [332] leaves.
Xyl. initials.
Gothics type at title-page. Text in Roman type.

Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (about 777-857) [also written Ibn Masawaih, Masawaiyh, and in Latin Joahannes Mesue, Masuya, Mesue Major, Msuya, and Mesue the Elder] was an Assyrian Nestorian Christian physician from the Academy of Gundishapur. According to The Canon of Medicine of Avicenna and Uyun al-Anba of the medieval Arabic historian Ibn Abi Usaybi'a, Masawaiyh's father was Assyrian and his mother was Slavic.

References: IT\ICCU\SIPE\011747 (3 copies). CNCE 56995. OCLC, 635158433 and 634588975 (2 copies in Germany). No copy in USA.

Traces of use to the binding (some lacks at spine-ends). Occasional foxing and presence of some spots. Overall, good to very good copy.