Secreti diuersi & miracolosi / racolti dal Falopia, & approbati da altri medici di gran fama ; nouamente ristampati, & à commun beneficio di ciascuno, distinti in tre libri ; nel primo de quali si contiene il modo di fare diuersi olii, cerotti onguenti, ontioni, eletuarii, pillole & infiniti altri medicamenti ; nel secondo s'insegna à fare diuerse forti di vini, & acque molto salutifere ; nel terzo si contengono alcuni importantissimisecreti di alchimia, & altri secreti diletteuoli, & curiosi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falloppio, Gabriele, 1523-1562, author.

Contributor:

Borgarucci, Borgaruccio, active 1565-1589, editor.

Gardane, Alessandro, active 1575-1591, printer.

Leoncini, Giacomo, active 1560-1589, printer.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Alchemy--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy.

Wine and wine making--Early works to 1800.

Wine and wine making.

Physical Description:

[32], 366, [1] pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Secreti diversi & miracolosi

Fingerprint:

ilro 7.ma ethe moue (3) 1578 (A)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Appresso Alessandro Gardano : [Giacomo Leoncini], 1578.

Notes:

Edited by Borgaruccio Borgarucci. See epistle to the reader.

Signatures: [dagger]-2[dagger]⁸ A-Z⁸.

Woodcut printer's devices of Giacomo Leoncini (EDIT 16 U569) on title leaf and leaf Z8v; woodcut initials.

Attribution of this work to Falloppio was questioned as early as 1564 by Andrea Marcolini in his edition of Falloppio's De medicatis aquis.

Local Notes:

Smith copy annotated by a previous owner on pastedowns, free endleaves and title leaf; a few manuscript marginal notes and marks in text. "[A]dditional curative recipes ... begin on the front paste-down with a recipe for treating sciatica, beneath which we find a seemingly related note suggesting a renewed tolerance for walks and the capacity to sit longer for meals ... The next two pages ... offer five different remedies for kidney stones and side aches ... On the rear endpapers are two pages dedicated to making soap ... At back we also find a remedy for scroffe (presumably scrofula) plus one for gout of the foot (podagra) surrounding the printer's device on the final page ... [A]n additional remedy has been scrawled in the outer margin of the title page ... Beyond the medicinal, a note at the bottom of the front pastedown appears to cite Giovanni Manardo's thoughts on the precious stone lapis stellatus (or armenus, similar to lapis lazuli)."--Bookseller's description.

Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Patrick Olson Rare Books.

Smith copy bound in full contemporary parchment; evidence of 2 fore-edge ties; manuscript spine title ("Falop. Secret.").

Cited in:

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, F-146

EDIT 16 CNCE 18549

USTC 828720

OCLC:

14307188