Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis medici De subtilitate libri XXI : ab authore plusquam mille locis illustratt, nonnullis etiam cum additionibus : addita insuper apologia adversus calumniatorem, qua uis horum librorum aperitur.

Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis medici De subtilitate libri XXI : ab authore plusquam mille locis illustratt, nonnullis etiam cum additionibus : addita insuper apologia adversus calumniatorem, qua uis horum librorum aperitur.

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Author / Creator:Cardano, Girolamo, 1501-1576, author.
Uniform title:De subtilitate libri XXI
Imprint:Basileae : Ex officina Petrina, anno MDLX mense Martio [March 1560]
Description:[24], 561, [3], 563- 603, [3] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm (folio)
Language:Latin
Subject:
Scaligero, Giulio Cesare, -- 1484-1558. -- Exotericarum exercitationum liber quintus decimus, De subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum.
Science -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy.
Science.
Expurgated copies (Provenance)
Early works.
Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy imperfect: lacking pages 521-526 and 531-538 (pages likely removed due to censorship); binding error: pages 543-544 bound after page 552.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11432416
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Varying Form of Title:Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis medici De svbtilitate libri XXI
Other authors / contributors:Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579, printer.
Provenance:Inscription: Hic tomus operum Hieronymi Cardani fideliter ac dilige[n]ter totus expurgatus fuit iuxta Indicem librorum expuragtoru[m] a Magistro Sacri Palatij.
Crossed out former owner's inscription.
Slip of paper with printed text "Bertacchini" pasted on title page.
Expurgated copy; expurgated in accordance with the "Indicis librorum expurgandorum" of Giovanni Maria Guanzelli (first issued in 1607); the most extensive censorship occurs in chapters 11, "De hominis necessitate & forma," chapter 18, "De mirabilibus," and chapter 19, "De daemonibus"; expurgation includes lines and passages struck through or thorougly crossed out in both ink and pencil, including one illustration (page 530); paper pasted over passages (some removed); bottom of pages 351-352 (leaf X4) and top of pages 535-354 (leaf Y1) cut out and pages 521-526 (leaves 2V1-3) and 531-538 (2X2-4, 2Y1) missing; on page 193 a former owner has supplied text in manuscript where pasted over paper obliterated text when removed (removed paper laid in).
Laid in sheet with manuscript annotation noting leaves portions cut out and missing leaves: X.4.Y, VV.2.3.4, YY.4.
Binding: Quarter bound vellum and paper over boards; gilt stamped red paper spine label.
Notes:Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: [alpha]-[gamma]⁴ a-z⁴ A-2Z⁴ 3A⁶ 3B-3E⁴ 3F⁶.
Title vignette (portrait of Cardano); initials.
Pages [1]-[3], third sequence and [3] pages at end blank.
Includes index.
"Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis medici calumniatorem librorum De subtilitate, actio prima ad Franciscum Abundium S. Abundij commendatarium perpetuum"--Pages 563-603.

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