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Dioscorides - DIOSCORIDES DIOSCORIDIS Libri Octo Graece et Latine. Castigationes in Eosdem Libros . Parisiis: apud Petrum Haultinum, 1549. aa–bb⁸, cc⁴, a–z⁸, A–Z⁸, Aa–Cc⁸; [20], 392 ff.; 175 mm. An important Renaissance edition of Dioscorides' De materia medica , in an eight-book version that offers, on opposite pages, the Greek text and the Latin translation by Jean Ruel, a humanist physician, dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris and one of the physicians of Francis I. Jacques Goupyl's *Castigatees* , by a Hellenist associated with the circle of Robert Estienne, corrects the manuscript and printed tradition of the text and introduces scholarly observations on ancient pharmacology and plant identification, making this edition a reference for physicians and botanists of the second half of the 16th century. Very rare and important. ! Please note that this translated text was generated by Google. !