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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.
Contributor:
Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609.
Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589, printer.
Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.
Henry Charles Lea Fund.
Lea Library Maintenance Fund.
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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