Io. Gorraei Parisiensis, Definitionum medicarum libri XXIIII. literis Graecis distincti

Folio (338x222 mm). [4], 382, [1] ll. Collation: *4 a-z6 A-Gg6 Hh7(Hh6+[χ]1) Ii-Rr6 Ss4. Leaf 323 ([χ]1), containing a table (Pulsuum differentiae X), is folding. Printer's device on title page and at the end. On title-page verso full-page woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee François de Montmorency, Marshal of France (1530-1579). On l. *4v full-page woodcut portrait of the author. Also with four small woodcut illustrations on ll. 53v, 71r, 276r, and 356r. Italic, greek and roman types. Privilege and colophon on last leaf recto. Decorative and historiated woodcut initials. Late 18th-century half vellum, lettering piece on spine. On title page ownership entry “Ex Libris Antonj Gambarotti M.Ph. et Chirurg. Dis.” (Antonio Gambarotti, fl. 18th cent., was a physician and public lecturer of anatomy at the University of Padua) and older unidentified embossed stamp. Some occasional browoning and staining, but a very good, wide-margined copy.
First edition (reprinted at Frankfurt in 1578 and 1601, and at Paris in 1622). “This dictionary arranges in order of the Greek alphabet all Greek medical terms and carefully explains them in Latin. It was widely used and excerted much influence on modern medical terminology” (Garrison and Morton, 6792).
Jean de Gorris (Johannes Gorraeus), born in Paris in 1505 and died there in 1577, was dean of the faculty of medicine of Paris in 1548. Beside the present work, he also wrote the Formulae remediorum (1560) and edited several texts: Hippocratis Coi jusjurandum, de arte, de antiqua medicina, de medico (1544), Nicrandi alexipharmaca (1549), and Galeni in prognostica Hippocratis commentarius (1552).
Italian Union Catalogue, IT\ICCU\BVEE\003835; VD16, G-2669; Durling, 2139.