Petri Andreæ Matthioli Senensis ... Commentarii secundo aucti in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia. Adiectis quamplurimis plantarum, et animalium imaginibus, quæ in priore editione non habentur / eodem auctore. His accessit euisdem apologia adversis Amathum Lusitanum: quin et censura in eiusdem enarrationes.

Commentarii secundo aucti in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia

Venetiis : In officina Valgrisiana, 1560.

100 unnumbered pages, 776, 46 pages : woodcuts, illustrations ; (folio)

"Apologia adversus Amanthum Lusitanum," 46 p. at end, with individual t.-p. bearing imprint date 1559 ( first published in 1558).

First published 1554 by Valgrisi; reprinted 1558 and 1559; this ed. also in Nissen, Die botan. Buchillustr. II, no. 1305; for the printing history of the illustrations, see Brunet, 5e éd., III, 1538.

Copy 1. Lacks last 24 leaves of Index. Title page vignette hand-coloured. Title page reinforced. Rules in brown ink along text edges, running title, and marginal notes, throughout. Autograph of Nicolaus Marchant on front pastedown, and again on t.p. with date 1574. Autograph in top corner of t.p., possibly N. Chatelain. Stamp in green ink on label on front pastedown, and again in black ink on t.p.: In Deo Spes ACH. Manuscript notes in French at foot of final leaf.

Copy 2. Lacks first 10 leaves, including title page. Apologia is bound first. Bound in 18th century patterned papers, parchment spine and corners.

Copy 3. Imperfect: lacks title page and Apologia; damaged, mutilated and fragile; much text lost from first few leaves; many leaves stuck together; binding blackened. Illustrations hand-coloured.

Copy 4. Incomplete: comprises Apologia (46 p.) only, bound with his Commentarii. 1565 [vol. 2].