Joannes BUSAEUS
Panarion, hoc est Arca medica variis divinaee scriptinae priscorumque patrum antiolotis adversus animi morbos instructas?[Panarion, or the Medical Ark, furnished with various antidotes drawn from Holy Scripture and the ancient Fathers against the diseases of the soul]
Jean Pillehotte|Lyon 1609|10.50 x 18.20 cm|relié
Lyon edition of 1609, published at the expense of Jean Pillehotte, the second edition of Busaeus’s Panarion after the original edition issued in Mainz in 1608, and the first known French edition of the text, still in Latin.
Engraved frontispiece-title, presenting an allegory of the seven deadly sins figured as monsters surrounding the risen Christ, his feet set upon a seven-headed dragon, with the motto Vincenti dabo manna absconditum from the Book of Revelation. A few faint spots of foxing and traces of rubbing, a brown stain of approximately one centimetre on the lower board, and a small hole in the lower margin of leaf 553.
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