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CASTIGATISS. ACCEDIT INDEX IN CELSVM ET SERENVM SANE QVAM COPIOSVS.
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ditionis hos libros imprimat, impressosue alibi uendat, cautum est.
_Fol. 1^a_: AVRELII CORNELII CELSI ARTIVM LIBER SEXTVS, IDEM MEDICINAE
LIBER PRIMVS. _Fol. 164^a_: COLOPHON: VENETIIS IN AEDIBVS ALDI, ET
ANDREAE ASVLANI SOCERI MENSE MARTIO. M.D.XXVIII. [Aldine anchor on
verso].

Quarto. 8 preliminary unnumbered leaves containing title,
dedicatory epistle of the editor, Giovanni Baptista Egnazio, to
Cardinal Hercules Gonzaga and index; 164 numbered leaves of text
(fol. 148 blank). Italic letter, three- to seven-line spaces with
guide-letter left for initials. Renouard, p. 105.

The _De Medicina_ of Celsus is the second and only surviving part of his
Encyclopaedia entitled _Artes_, in five divisions. The first division,
_De Agricultura_, consisted of five books, so that the sixth book of
_Artes_ was at the same time the first of _De Medicina_.

The Syston Park copy, uncut. Bound by Roger Payne in red morocco. Leaf
9 x 5-1/2 in.

31. CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad
Quintum fratrem. Venetiis, apud Aldi filios, 1540.

TITLE: M.TVLLII CICERONIS EPISTOLAE ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad
Quintu_m_ fratrem, summa diligentia castigatae, ut in ijs menda, quae
plurima erant, paucissima jam supersint. PAVLI MANVTII IN EASDEM
EPISTOLAS Scholia, quibus abditi locorum sensus ostenduntur, cum
explicatione castigationum, quae in his epistolis pene innumerabilis
factae sunt. [Aldine anchor] PAVLVS MANVTIVS ALDI F. VENETIIS, M.D.XL.
_Fol. 344^a_, COLOPHON: APVD ALDI FILIOS. VENETIIS, M.D.XL. MENSE
AVGVSTO. [Aldine anchor on verso]

Octavo. 2 preliminary leaves containing title and dedication by
Paulus Manutius to Guillaume Pellicier, Bishop of Montpellier, 331
numbered leaves of text, 10 unnumbered leaves of translations of
the Greek passages, conjectural emendations which the editor "would
not hesitate to adopt it he should ever find an ancient MS. to
confirm them" and a final leaf with colophon and anchor. The
Scholia, 24 unnumbered leaves, have a separate title, with notice
of copyright granted by Paul III. (the fourth pope to grant this
privilege) and the Venetian senate; colophon and anchor repeated on
last leaf. Italic letter, 30 lines to the page, five-line spaces
with g