Amatus Lusitanus (pseudonym of João Rodrigues de Castello Branco). Curationum Medicinalium, Centuriae Duae, Tertia et Quarta ["Second, Third & Fourth Centuries: Collection of Medical Case Histories"]

Estimate: $700–$1,000
Hammer price: $900

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author

(MEDICINE)

printer

Rouillius

Place

Lyon

Publication

1565

Description

Scattered Latin marginalia

references

Friedenwald, p. 37

summary

The passage which evidently an ecclesiastical authority saw fit to expunge is where Amatus shares the Jewish legend concerning the birth of Ben Sira, namely that he was born to Jeremiah's daughter after she had immersed herself in a bath inseminated by her father the Prophet Jeremiah. See EJ, Vol. IV, cols. 548-50, s.v. Alphabet of Ben Sira; Steinschneider ed., Alpha Beta de-Ben Sira (Berlin, 1858), 16b-17a

pp. 647, (82), (1 blank). Censorship to pp. 474-5 (see below). Light waterstains. Contemporary vellum, stained. 12mo

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