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
Description:
In Latin and English., Pages are ruled in red; marginal annotations in the same hand in the marginal compartments., 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.", Tipped in on recto of front flyleaf: printed dealer description., Annotation by Edward Turner on added p. 1 containing detailed biographical information on Simon Trippe., Bookplate: Ex libris Robert Hoe., Bookplate: T[homas] J[efferson] Coolidge, Jr., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Galen. and Corpus Christi College (University of Oxford).
Subject (Topic):
Humanism, Medicine, Early works to 1800, History, Philosophy, and Physicians
