Rodericia Castro Lusitani, philos. ac med. d. per Europam notissimi, De universa muliebrium morborum medicina : novo & antehac à nemine tentato ordine opus absolutissimum, et studiosis omnibus utile, medicies vero per necessarium : pars prima theorica[-secunda, sive praxis] ... In quibus cuncta, quae ad mulieris naturam, anatomen, semen, menstruum, conceptum, uteri gestationem, foetus formationem, & hominis ortum attinent ... explicantur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castro, Rodrigo de, 1546-1627.

Contributor:

Härtel, Zacharias, -1678, bookseller.

Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Women--Diseases--Early works to 1800.

Women.

Gynecology--Early works to 1800.

Gynecology.

Women--Diseases.

Penn Provenance:

Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990 (bookplate) (former owner) (stamp) (Cassuto Collection copy)

Paris, Charles (bookplate) (Cassuto Collection copy)

Eisenmenger, Johann Christoph, 1620-1670 (bookplate) (inscription) (Cassuto Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)

Edition:

Quarta editio auctior et emendatior.

Other Title:

De universa muliebrium morborum medicina

Fingerprint:

s.f- m.le t,em inna (7) 1662 (R) v.1

70a- e-is emo- qusu (3) 1662 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

Hamburgi : Apud Zachariam Hertelium, bibliop., Anno MDCLXII [1662]

Contents:

(from t.p. of each vol.) Pars prima theorica : quatuor comprehensa libris, in quibus cuncta, quae ad mulieris naturam, anatomen, semen, menstruum, conceptum, uteri gestationem, foetus formationem, & hominis ortum attinent, abundantissime explicantur

Pars secunda, sive praxis : quatuor contenta libris, in quibus mulierum morbi universi, tam, qui cunctis foeminis sunt communes, quam, qui virginibus, viduis, gravidis, puerperis, & lactantibus peculiares, singulari ordine traduntur, subindeque variae sterilitatis species, earumque naturae, causae, signa, & curationes, distincta & accurata methodo edocentur ... cum triplici indice.

Notes:

Signatures: v. 1: a-b⁴ A-2L⁴ ; v. 2: a[dagger]² A-4B⁴.

Pagination: v. 1: [16], 226, [46] p. ; v. 2: [4], 524, [44] p., [1] leaf of fold. plates.

Title of v. 1 in red and black with engraved vignette.

Woodcut initials and tail-pieces; type ornament head-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Cassuto Collection copy: v. 1 has ms. correction of page number in pencil on p. 13.

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 title leaf) of the library of Alfonso Cassuto.

Cassuto Collection copy has bookplate ("Charles PARIS") on front pastedown; early armorial bookplate with dated 17th-century ms. inscription ("J.C. Eisenmenger M.D. 1668.") of Johann Christoph Eisenmenger in brown ink on back pastedown.

Cassuto Collection copy bound in full early parchment with cover extensions (each ca. 7 mm. in width); boards double-ruled in blind; blind-ruled spine panels; ms. author's name ("Rodericus à Castro") in brown ink on spine;

Cited in:

VD 17 12:183612C

OCLC:

14317297