Gerokomía basilikè; King Solomons portraiture of old age
Subtitle: Wherein is contained a sacred anatomy both of soul and body. And a perfect account of the infirmities of age, incident to them both. And all those mystical and aenigmatical symptomes, expressed in the six former verses of the 12th chapter of Ecclesiastes, are here paraphrased upon, and made plain and easie to a mean capacity
Publisher: Printed by J. Hayes for S. Thompson
Published: 1666
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Old age; Geriatrics; Early works to 1800; Mind and body; Older people; Care; Health and hygiene
Other titles: King Solomons portraiture of old age.; Solomons portraiture of old age.
Notes: Title in Greek characters.

Head and tail pieces; initials; side notes.

Running title: King Solomons portraiture of old age.

Second ed. has title: The pourtract of old age.

Wing: S 4114

Purchased for the Boston Medical Library through the Solomon M. Hyams Fund Voynich 1934 Aug. 28 29217.

From the Hyams collection.

Bound in full contemporary mottled calf, covers panelled and decorated in gilt, spine stamped in gilt.