ΙΠΠΟΚΡΑΤΗΣ (Hippocrates), Rabelais François. Three (3) early 16th century works bound together.

[Aphorismorum Hippocratis sectiones septem / Ιπποκράτους αφορισμών τμήματα Ζ],  Lyon, Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1543. 16mo. The First print of the text in Greek. Missing the title page and the translation in Latin (318 pages). All the text in Greek (31 unnumbered sheets) present (collated with Lyon’s public library copy). Very Rare second edition, first published in 1532 in Latin, of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates edited by François Rabelais (~1494-1553), the great Renaissance humanist writer and scholar. Rabelais compiled the first edition of the present work in Lyons 1532, where he was serving as one of the first to lecture from Greek texts. The translation was based on an ancient Greek manuscript that Rabelais owned and was presented for the first time in the current 1543 edition, at the end of the book. The current copy presents exactly this Greek text. First edition with text in Greek. ADAMS 576.

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“Aphorismorum Hippocratis sectiones septem”, Lyon, Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1545. Including the title page and until page 101 of 318 (including Sectio I-VIII and Liber I - liber III / collated with Lyon’s public library copy).  Part of the third edition of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates edited by François Rabelais.

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“Aphorismorum Hippocratis libri octo, succinctis paraphrasibus illustrati: adjecto brevi in singulos libros, et aphorismos argumento…”, Bonhomme Joannem, Paris, 1551. pp.131, [2]. Complete (collated with the copy of the “The Wellcome Library”, London). Title page printed without the printer’s device. The translation by Italian humanist Niccolò Leoniceno (1428-1524) is edited here by the French physician Jean Lyège. ADAMS 589.

Contemporary full leather, spine with 3 raised bands, red edges. Externally worn: rubbed with worm-holes, spine with lower part chipped. Interior: first marbled/blank sheet detached, occasional handwritten notes mainly marginal.