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[MEDICINE] PSEUDO-MESUË Ioannis Mesuae Damasceni medici clarissimi Opera de medicamentorum purgantium delectu, castigatione, & vsu, libri duo : [...] Venetii, Apud Iuntas, 1623 In-folio. 2 parts in 1 vol. 2 blank ff. + [6, including title in red and black] ff + 252 ff, [6, including title of 2nd part in black] ff + 278 ff + [11] ff. index + 2 blank ff. Contemporary full vellum. 6-rib spine with author and title in black ink. Boards decorated with cold-stamped fillets and a large central motif of cold-stamped arabesques. Minor rubbing and split at bottom of 1st spine. Solid binding. New edition of the medical works of Pseudo-Mesuë, an Italian-born Christian physician of the Syriac Orthodox Church who died in Cairo in 1015.