Galeni Pergamensis De temperamentis : et De inaeqvali intemperie libri tres, Thomas Linacro Anglo interprete. Opus non medicis modo, sed et philosophis oppido q[uem] necessariu[m] nunc 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.

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1881
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Credit: Galeni Pergamensis De temperamentis : et De inaeqvali intemperie libri tres, Thomas Linacro Anglo interprete. Opus non medicis modo, sed et philosophis oppido q[uem] necessariu[m] nunc 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The present reproduction of Linacre's translation of two treatises by Galen is issued as a specimen of early typography, being the sixth in order of the seven books printed by John Siberch, the first Cambridge printer, in 1521. Besides these seven, one appeared in 1522, after which date no book is known to have been printed in Cambridge till 1584. The books printed by Siberch are all very scarce; of one but a single copy is known, and of three of the books there is not a single specimen in Cambridge. In 1878, the publishers of the present volume proposed to issue the whole of the eight books, and the foUowing are now ready, and will shortly be published : 1. Bullock, Henry. Oratio habita Cantabrigiae. 1521. 2. Cujufdam fidelis Chriftiani Epiftola ad Chriftianos omnes. Subfequitur et Divi Auguftini de miferia...vitas fermo. 1521. 8. Papyrii Gemini Eleatis Hermathena, feu de Eloquentiae viftoria. 1522. Mr Bradshaw, University Librarian, has compared the eight books side by side, and has thus been able to determine their relative order. He kindly allows his notes to be printed, and they will be issued with the first of the above three volumes.