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Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia : primùm quidem Lusitanica lingua per dialogos conscripta / à D. Garcia ab Horto ... ; deinde Latino sermone in epitomen contracta, & iconibus ad vivum expressis, locupletioribusque annotatiunculis illustrata à Carolo Clusio Atrebate.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection RS178 .O6162 1579
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century.
- Standardized Title:
- Colóquios dos simples e drogas e coisas medicinais da India e de algumas frutas. Latin
- Language:
- Latin
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Materia medica--India--Early works to 1800.
- Materia medica.
- Materia medica, Vegetable--India--Early works to 1800.
- Materia medica, Vegetable.
- Medicinal plants--India--Early works to 1800.
- Medicinal plants.
- India.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990 (bookplate) (former owner) (stamp) (Cassuto Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 217 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- Tertia editio.
- Other Title:
- Aromatvm, et simplicivm aliqvot medicamentorvm apvd Indos nascentivm historia
- Fingerprint:
- ++++ ++++ odo- ruqu (3) 1579 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Antuerpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini ..., MDLXXIX [1579]
- Notes:
- Abridged from the author's Coloquios dos simples, e drogas he cousas mediçinais da India, published in Goa in 1563.
- Reprint of the 1574 edition, with the addition of an illustration. Cf. Voet.
- Signatures: A-O⁸.
- Printed marginalia.
- Errata on leaf O8r.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Charles Lea Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lea Library Maintenance Fund.
- Cassuto Collection copy imperfect: all before leaf A4 (including title leaf) wanting.
- Alfonso Cassuto Collection copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2014 from the Cassuto family in Portugal.
- Cassuto Collection copy has bookplate (on front pastedown) and armorial blind stamp (on leaf A4r) of the library of Alfonso Cassuto.
- Cited in:
- Voet, L. Plantin Press, 1840
- Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae, 4316
- OCLC:
- 367541839
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