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Valerius CORDUS (1515 - 1544) 
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Valerij Cordi Dispensatorium, sive Pharmacorum conficiendorum ratio, a Petro Coudebergo pharmacopoeo Antuerpiano, plus quadrigentis erroribus liberata atque vindicata: adjecto Valerij Cordi novo libello, aliisque paucis post praefationes annotatis. Antuerpiae, Christophori Plantini, 1568 (Antuerpiae, excudebat Chrisptophorus Plantinus, 1568 mense Maio). 16mo; [32], 429, [3] pp.; sign.: *-**8, A-A8, a-d8 (last leaf blank). Nice copy, preserving a neatly preserved 17th-century vellum binding.
Scarce, first Antwerpian and twenty-first overall edition (or. ed. Norimbergae, apud Ioh. Petreium, 1546) of the most celebrated pharmacopoeia of the early modern period. Between 15th and early 16th centuries a number of manual were printed especially for apothecaries by different authors, generally based on medieval Arab, Italian and French sources such as Abū al-Qāsim al-Zahrāwī (936 - 1013), Mesue the Younger, or Pseudo-Mesue (d. 1015), Nicolaus Prepositus (XII century), Matteo Plateario (d. 1161), Arnaldus de Villa Nova (c. 1240 - 1311), Pietro d’Abano (c. 1257 - 1316), Mondino de Luzzi (c. 1270 - 1326) and Jean de Saint-Amand (d. 1312). The first book of the kind to receive the impress of any authority beyond that carried by the author’s name was the Ricettario fiorentino, better known as Antidotarium Florentinum (or. ed. Firenze, per la Compagnia del Drago, 1498), a collection of medical recipes sanctioned by the medical college of the city, while the first pharmacopoeia sanctioned by the civil authority and enjoined to be used under penalties by dispensers and compounders of medicines was Cordus’ Dispensatorium, chosen as official apothecary manual by the city of Nürnberg in 1545 and there printed for the first time the following year. Cordus made this compilation in 1540 c. for his own use and during a short residence in Nürnberg he presented it to the physicians composing the medical college of the city, that awarded him with a 100 gold guilders prize, then deciding to publish it posthumously and make it authoritative on all under the city jurisdiction. The Dispensatorium contents comprise the collection and keeping of simples, adulterations, succedanea, weights, measures and a large number of formulae. The main part is divided into 14 different sections according to the kind of preparations listed. Thus we find: confectiones aromaticae, confectiones opiatae, conditae, conservae, lenitiva et solutiva, pillulae, sirupi, rob (pressed fruit juices), lohoch (pastes made of drugs, walnuts and figs), trochisci, emplastra, cerota, unguenta and olea. Cordus’ collection reached enormous success, making of it a reference manual for apothecaries and physicians for more than a century, with 53 different editions (39 in Latin, 5 in French, 5 in Dutch and 4 in Italian) published between 1546 and 1670. Moreover, the present edition is particularly desirable, being the first one edited by the Antwerpian apothecary and botanist Peeter van Coudenberghe (c. 1519 - c. 1599), considered as the father of Belgian pharmacy. REF.: OCLC 465063136; VOET II, 1023; K. BARTELS, Schlag nach bei Brockhaus? Die Ausgaben des “Dispensatorium des Valerius Cardus”, In: Geschichte der Pharmazie, 43, 2 (1991), 20-27; ID., Die Verbreitung der Nürnberger Pharmakopöe In: Geschichte der Pharmazie, 44, 2 (1992), 17-23. (Seller ref. MC0113)
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