Specimen of a Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

For the praise of God and the common utility of studious men, collected most accurately from the books of Philosophers.

A work of learned antiquity, which, although I know it to be in the hands of very few, I am the more surprised that it has hitherto been mentioned by none of the writers of rare books. For it appeared at the beginning of the XVI century in Leipzig, as the words written at the bottom of the book testify: This work was printed and finished in Leipzig, by the Bachelor Wolfgang of Munich, (otherwise Stoecklin), in the year of our salvation 1501. Behold the first cause of rarity, where at the same time we note the error committed by Mercklin in the Renewed Lindenius p. 770, who asserts that this book was produced by Marcus Brandt. But since all the copies I have seen thus far were produced by Wolfgang of Munich, that excellent ornament of Leipzig printers, and none by Brandt, as Lindenius thinks; and since the most learned investigator of the ancient state of Leipzig typography, the most fortunate researcher, the late JOH. HEINR. LEICH, in his learned Commentary on the Origin and Growth of Leipzig Typography, p. 24 and 79, makes mention of our edition, not the Brandtian one; I clearly do not doubt that I should accuse Mercklin of error, who perhaps himself never saw the book. I have found this work three times so far. For it exists in the Riuinian Library, no. 2540, the Platnerian, Vol. II. Part I. no. 2267, and the Menzian, recently sold in Leipzig, no. 2176. Perhaps, however, this is one and the same edition,