‎GALENUS, Claudius (ca 129-216).‎
‎Peri kraseon biblia tria. Tou autou peri anomalou dyskrasias. Hippokratous orkos. - De temperamentis libri tres. Eiusdem de inaequali intemperie libellus cum his Hippocratis iuramentum.‎

‎Basel, (Thomas Platter), March 1538. 2 parts in one volume 8 (165x105 mm). [8], 182 [2] (blank), 139 pp. Contemporary Italian (probably Venetian) binding of black goatskin over paste boards. Covers with blind and gilt fillets, panel of a gilt fillet interrupted in the middle by buckle-like semicircles, gilt corner pieces, spine on three raised bands, the panels lettered in gilt lengthwise (GALE// NI DE//TEM//PER), all edges gilt and gauffered. Binding slightly rubbed, head cap torn, one corner chafed; minimally foxed in places, tear to gutter margin of title, wormtrack to the lower margin of the last few leaves, endpapers torn off. Some ms. numbers on paste-downs and date 1838. ‎

Reference : B352275

‎Rare separate edition of Galen's writings on mixtures and of the Hippocratic Oath in a fine contemporary binding. Galen's typology of the human organism according to mixtures or 'temperaments' of hot, cold, dry and moist was the basis of medical diagnostics at the time. The original Greek text is followed by a second part with Thomas Linacre's Latin translation of Galen's two treatises (first ed. Cambridge 1521) and that of Nicolaus Perottus of the Hippocratic Oath (first separate printing Paris 1514). The book was edited by the Basel professor of theoretical medicine resp. Bonifacius Amerbach's personal physician, Sebastian Sinckeler, who dedicated it with a brief introduction to his students. VD16 G 197; USTC 602773; Hieronymus, Griechischer Geist 338. ‎