Transcriber’s Note: Whilst the publishers of the original text intended it as afacsimile reproduction, this was not considered practical for an e-text. Theoriginal used, for example, scribal abbreviations and the long s, making itunnecessarily difficult to read. These have been converted. In addition the mistakesnoted in the INDEX ERRATORVM have been addressed, and a number of other errors(listed at the end) were picked up on and changed, based on a comparison withanother edition of the same work printed in Paris in 1523.
GALENI PERGAMENSIS
DE TEMPERAMENTIS, ET DE
INAEQVALI INTEMPERIE
GALENI PERGAMENSIS
DE TEMPERAMENTIS, ET DE
INAEQVALI INTEMPERIE
LIBRI TRES
THOMA LINACRO ANGLO INTERPRETE.
Opus non medicis modo, sed et philosophis oppido quam necessariumnunc primum prodit in lucem
CVM GRATIA
& Priuilegio.
Impressum apud praeclaram Cantabrigiam per Joannem Siberch,anno MDXXI.
Reproduced in exact Facsimile
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
JOSEPH FRANK PAYNE, M.D., F.R.C.P.
FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD
AND A PORTRAIT OF THOMAS LINACRE
¶ Printed by C. J. Clay, M.A. Printer to the University of Cambridge
for Alexander Macmillan and Robert Bowes, Booksellers
No. 1 Trinity Street, over against Saint Mary’s Church
MDCCCLXXXI
PUBLISHERS’ NOTE.
The present reproduction of Linacre’s translation of two treatisesby Galen is issued as a specimen of early typography, being thesixth in order of the seven books printed by John Siberch, the firstCambridge printer, in 1521. Besides these seven, one appeared in1522, after which date no book is known to have been printed inCambridge till 1584. The books printed by Siberch are all veryscarce; of one but a single copy is known, and of three of the booksthere is not a single specimen in Cambridge. In 1878, the publishersof the present volume proposed to issue the whole of the eight books,and the following are now ready, and will shortly be published:
1. Bullock, Henry. Oratio habita Cantabrigiae. 1521.
2. Cujusdam fidelis Christiani Epistola ad Christianos omnes. Subsequituret Divi Augustini de miseria … vitæ sermo. 1521.
8. Papyrii Gemini Eleatis Hermathena, seu de Eloquentiae victoria. 1522.
Mr Bradshaw, University Librarian, has compared the eight booksside by side, and has thus been able to determine their relative order.He kindly allows his notes to be printed, and they will be issuedwith the first of the above three volumes.
The Publishers are desirous of gaining information about theprinter, John Siberch, before 1521,