Author: DEMETRIUS PEPAGOMENUS [Transl. by J.S. Bernard]
Title: Liber de Podagra Graece et Latine Quem ope ms. Bibliothecae Lugduno - Batavae recensuit & notis illustravit. Joh. Steph. Bernard. [Bi-lingual Greek and Latin].
Description: Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], Apud Philippum Bonk, 1743. 8vo. W. engr. title vignet ['N. v.d. Meer del Fec.'], some woodc. head- and tailpieces. Fine contemp. full polished and chequered stained clf., spine elaborately gilt, w. red title shield. Edges of covers gilt. Both covers w. a single blindruled floral decoration along the outer edges. (Upper part of lower cover discol.). [#3, *4, **4, A-N4]. (VI, XIV, II [=1 blank recto, 1 errata on verso), (1), 2 - 97, I ['autores a Demetrio laudati'], VI (Index) pp.). (N1 a 4 cm tear in upper margin.). (Fine marbled endp.) Hirsch vol. II, pp. 219 - 220: Demetrius Pepagomenus, Royal Physician to the Emperor Michael Paläeologus (1261 - 1282), author of a book on gout, edited by Bernard in 1743, Leiden.: Hirsch vol. I, pp. 488 - 489, on Bernard: Comp. Waller vol. I, item 2153 [ed. Arnhem 1753, 8vo]: BMN vol. I, p. 274: Blake p. 114: This edition edited by Johann Stephan Bernard, DMB c. 121 - 122, classical medicine, (Berlin 1718 - Arnhem, 1792/3). Studied medicine at Leiden where he matriculated on August 26, 1739 and graduated with a thesis 'de phrenitide vera' on June 25, 1745. He settled in Amsterdam where he lived from 1747 to 1767. In this period he corresponded on a regular basis with prof. Gaubius. Bernard edited quite a number of works of the ancient Greek writers on medicine and provided Latin translations and comments. Among these the work by Demetrius Pepagomenus 'Liber de Podagra': Douma, 'J.S.Bernard, medicus en philoloog', Assen 1939, thesis, i.l.c.:

Keywords: jicht classic antiquity translation W55