An easie and plaine method teaching how to judge upon nativities.
Description:
"A catalogue of most astrological authors now extant, where printed, and in what yeer": 11 p. following p. 832., "The 3. booke" has special t.-p.: "An easie and plaine method teaching how to judge upon nativities.", Imperfect: ports. wanting; p. [17-22] at end wanting; t.-p. mutilated, some lower margins bled., and Signatures: A-B⁴ (b)-(c)⁴ B-Ooooo⁴+ (A₁ [blank?] wanting)
Publisher:
Printed by T. Brudenell, for J. Partridge and H. Blunden,
Subject (Name):
Bartlett, Jo.--Autograph. and Gallup, H. T.--Autograph.
Manuscript on paper in a single Italic hand of a treatise on the compatibility of the science of medicine with belief in Christianity and a vindication of Galen against four traditional attacks on him, including the "calumnies" that Galen favored reason over religion and that he scoffed at both Judaism and Christianity. Trippe frequently alludes to and quotes other medical and scientific authors in developing his argument, including Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Nicander, Avicenna, and his contemporaries Antonio Guainerio, Jean Fernel, Pietro Andreas Mattioli, and Leonhard Fuchs, as well as the humanist thinkers Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Guillaume Bude, and Ramus (Pierre de la Ramee). and Text prefaced (p. 5-7) by a dedicatory epistle to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who was Chancellor of Oxford and from whom Trippe was soliciting recommendation for appointment as Physician of Corpus Christi.
Alternative Title:
Christianus medicus, siue disceptatio quaedam instituta aduersus receptam publice opinionem, bene medicum male christianum existere, in qua comprimis Galenus vindicatus a 4. calumnijs..., 1572 May 15.
Description:
Annotation by Edward Turner on added p. 1 containing detailed biographical information on Simon Trippe., Annotation on recto of front flyleaf: "Presented to Chas. Leeson Prince M.R.C.S by The late Revd. Edward Turner Rector of Maresfield Sussex. 1870.", Binding: contemporary full paneled calf, extensive gold tooled decoration on boards and spine; cloth ties not present. Possibly bound for the dedicatee, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester., Bookplate: Ex libris Robert Hoe., Bookplate: T[homas] J[efferson] Coolidge, Jr., Ex libris Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Ex libris Edward Turner. Ex libris Charles Leeson Prince. Ex libris Robert Hoe. Ex libris Thomas Jefferson Coolidge. Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2004., Pages are ruled in red; marginal annotations in the same hand in the marginal compartments., and Tipped in on recto of front flyleaf: printed dealer description.
Subject (Name):
Corpus Christi College (University of Oxford), Galen, Hoe, Robert--1839-1909--Bookplate, Leicester, Robert Dudley,--Earl of,--1532?-1588--Library, Prince, C. L. (Charles Leeson),--1821-1899--Presentation inscription from Edward Turner, and Turner, Edward,--1794-1872--Presentation inscription to Charles Leeson Prince
Subject (Topic):
Humanism--England, Medicine--Early works to 1800--History, Medicine--Philosophy, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Physicians
Binding: Rebound in gold- and blind-tooled leather. In brown morocco case, by Riviere & Son., Imperfect: water-stained at beginning., Provenance: Inscription after contents in early sixteenth century/late fifteenth century hand: "Rychard Nayler ys my name and wyth my pene I wryt the same"; the same hand writes other names throughout in the top margin of rectos. Inscription on first leaf: "L Tyrwhitt." Inscription on first flyleaf: "W[illia]m Pownall Lincoln Feb 17th 1726/7.", Signatures: a¹⁰ ²a⁸ B-V⁸ x-z⁸ [et]⁸ 2a-2d⁸ 2e⁴., and Title and imprint from ISTC.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--To 1485--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492., Machlinia, William de, active 1481-1486, printer., and Riviere & Son, binder