(Giovanni da Milano)

Schola Salernitana, sive De conservandâ valetudine praecepta metrica.
Author Joanne de Mediolano...

Nova editio, melior & aliquot medicis opuscolis auctior, Roterodami, ex officina Arnoldi Leers; 1667.


Rare edition of the "Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum," a didactic treatise in Latin verse written within the Medical School of Salerno in the 12th-13th century.


The work sets forth the School of Salerno's guidelines regarding hygiene, food, herbs, and their therapeutic indications.
The work includes numerous chapters entirely devoted to wine (see Oberlé, p. 54).

The author is unknown, although some attribute it to a certain Giovanni Da Milano.



(XLVIII), 517, (XI) pp. COMPLETE, with a copperplate frontispiece engraved by Mathias van Somer.

very good condition. 

Original vellum binding with title label on the spine

Lacks front endpaper


  Size 3 by 5 1/3"