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Petrus of Ebolus. Nomina et Virtutes Balneorum Putheoli et Baiarum et Tabula Super Balneis Puteoli. Ms. 860 from the University Library of Valencia.
In 1220 Pietro da Eboli wrote a poem in hexameters about the medical benefits of different thermal waters at the beginning of the 13th century. The use of baths for therapeutic purposes ended up being imposed among the most demanding doctors. For the first time, preventive medicine topics are also introduced and at the end, in alphabetical order, a table of diseases and corresponding baths appears. The highly successful poem was translated into both the Neapolitan and French dialects, and with this edition it is now presented in Spanish and English.
The most likely owner was Alfonso of Aragon, Duke of Calabria (1448-1495), later King Alfonso II of Naples, and bequeathed to San Miguel de los Reyes (Valencia) by Ferdinand of Aragon, Prince of Taranto in the year 1550.
It is one of the most beautiful manuscripts in the Library of the Duke of Calabria.
The binding of the facsimile, imitating the state of the original manuscript, has been made of aged leather on board, dry-stamped and of course, with a spine support added and remounted. 40 pages. Format 23 x 32 cm. The edition was made up solely and exclusively of 450 copies.
As is usual in this type of editions, the facsimile is accompanied by a study book bound in leather spine, matching the codex, and cloth, format 23 x 31 cm. Carried out under the direction of Luis Garcia Ballester, Professor of History of Medicine at the University of Cantabria. Prologue by H. A. R. Don Carlos de Borbón, Infante of Spain and Duke of Calabria. Introduction, edition, notes and Spanish and English translation. Also collaborating: José Luis Gil Arista, Pamplona; Felipe Jerez Moliner, University of Valencia; Mª José López Terrada, University of Valencia; and Michael R. McVaugh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Both books presented in a thin cardboard cover lined with brown cloth paper, format 24 x 33 x 8 cm.
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