Adamantii Sophistae Physiognomonicon, id est De naturae indiciis cognoscendis libri duo
By: per Ianum Cornarium ... Latinè conscripti ; Iani Cornarii ... De utriusq[ue] alimenti receptaculis dissertatio, contrà quàm sentit Plutarchus ; Plutarchi ... Loci duo, ad idem argumentum pertinentes, sèd reprobati ; Adamantii etiam exemplar Graecum est adiectum
Series: German books before 1601 -- roll 109, item 18
Publisher: Per Robertum Winter
Published: 1544
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat; grc
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Physiognomy; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Physiognomonicon, id est De naturae indiciis cognoscendis libri duo
Notes: Greek and Latin.

An epitome of the Physiognomica of Antonius Polemo.

The translations from Plutarch are from the De Stoicorum repugnantiis and the Quaestiones convivales.

The printer's name precedes the city in the imprint.

Woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf; woodcut initials; typeset marginalia.

Signatures: A-N⁸.

BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 3

Durling, R. NLM 16th cent., 39

Purchased for the Boston Medical Library through the Solomon M. Hyams fund.

Inscription of David Bÿrglius, 1549, on title-page.