Guilielmus Varignana {ca. 1270-1339}

Secreta sublimimia ad varios curandos morbos verissimis auctoritatibus illustrata .... [A de Bindonis]

      [Venice], [1520]. Second Edition.. A very good copy; minor worming to leaf 36 just touching a numeral; old ink smudge on title.. 8vo.,. A rare book (see Ferguson Supp II, 207 for a comment). Guilielmus, member of a prominent jewish family, practiced medicine and was a professor at the Univ. of Bologna. This handbook of secrets was not published until the 16th century; it is noted by both Haller and Mercklin. The book consists of five essays. It begins with pathology and moves to fevers, wounds, toxicology and the final section devoted to the plague and skin diseases. The Durling copy at the NLM is catalogued as defective and later prtgs. of the 1530s and '40s are based on corrupt texts.