Galēnou hapanta
Subtitle: Galeni Pergameni svmmi semper viri ... opera omnia : ad fidem complurium & perquam vetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint
Contributors: Balami, Ferdinando, active 1514-1552; Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574; Fuchs, Leonhart, 1501-1566; Gemusaeus, Hieronymus, 1505-1543; Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543; Faber, Jakob, active 1516-1550
Publisher: [A. Cratander, J. Bebel, J. Herwagen, J. Froben, M. Isengrin]
Published: 1538
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat
Subjects: Greek and Roman Medicine; Early works to 1800; Medicine
Other titles: Galeni Pergameni svmmi semper viri ... opera omnia; Galeni Pergameni summi semper viri ... opera omnia; De ossibus
Work titles: Works
Notes: The 2nd ed. of Galen's works in Greek, following that of Aldus and Andreas Asulanus (Venice, 1525); see Basler Buchillustration.

All vols. have the date 1538 on t.p. Vols. 1-2 have Greek colophons dated 1537, with imprints of Andreas Cratander and Johann Bebel respectively. Vol. 3 has no colophon. Vol. 4 has Latin colophon: Basileae, Apvd Ioan. Hervagivm et Ioan. Erasmivm Frobenivm, anno [1538], though Herwagen alone is given in the t.p. imprint. Vol. 5 has Greek colophon, stating that v. 1-2 and 5 were printed at Basel by Michael Isengrin at the expense of Cratander and Bebel.

Edited by Hieronymus Gemusaeus, Joachim Camerarius, and Leonhart Fuchs; see Basler Buchillustration.

Includes index; printed marginal notes.

"Cum Caesareae Maiest. & Regis Galliarum priuilegiis."

The first two words of the title are transliterated from the Greek. text in Greek, with praefationes and "De ossibus" in Latin.

Collation: v. 1: [16], 567, [1] p.; v. 2: 491, [1] p.; v. 3: [8], 487, [1] p.; v. 4: [8], 480, [4] p.; v. 5: [8], 727, [3] p., [2] leaves of plates.

Register on p. [3], at end of vol. 5.

Vols. 2-5 have titles Galenou [Beta], [Gamma], [Delta], [Epsilon], i.e. the Greek letters.

Vol. 5 5Z2r-7r contains Ferdinando Balami's Latin version of Galen's De ossibus, accompanied by 3 cuts depicting a skull from beneath and a whole skeleton from front and back.

T.p.'s of v. 1-3 and 5 have metal cut depicting shield of Basel, supported by 2 basilisks and with an empty ribbon for names at the bottom. In Basler Buchillustration it is described as the common device of the 5 publishers and is said to occur on all 5 t.p.'s. In the present copy, however, Herwagen's device appears on the t.p. of v. 4 along with his imprint. Cratander's device depicting Occasio on last p. of v. 1 is a metal-cut by Jacob Faber after Hans Holbein (Hollstein 74c). Bebel's device on last p. of v. 2 is after Holbein (Hollstein 89a).

Decorated and historiated initials from a variety of alphabets. They include: Hollstein 116, metalcuts by Jacob Faber after Holbein depicting animals, e.g., 3m3v.  Hollstein 118, metalcuts by Faber after Holbein depicting animals, seagods and satyrs, e.g., at 3c4r.  Hollstein 119, metalcuts by Faber after Holbein depicting classical, mythological and Old Testament scenes, e.g., [alpha]2r.  Hollstein 120, metalcuts by Faber after Holbein, depicting labors of Hercules, e.g., at 3d4r.  Hollstein 121, metalcuts depicting children perhaps after Holbein, e.g., at *2r.  Hollstein 123, a Greek and roman metalcut alphabet by Faber after Holbein depicting Romans, e.g., at 3h5r.  Hollstein 145, metalcuts depicting Old-Testament scenes by CV after Holbein, e.g. at a1r.  Hollstein 146, woodcuts by Hans Lützelburger after Holbein depicting the dance of death, e.g., at e4v.  Another alphabet depicting the dance of death, e.g., at t1r.

John G. Curtis Library.

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), G119-123

Basler Buchillustration 1500-1545, 183

Hollstein, F.W.H.  German engravings, XIV-A 74c, 89a; XIV-B 116, 118-121, 123, 145, 146

In Greek, preliminaries in Latin.