Panarion, hoc est arca medica variis divinaee scriptinae priscorumque patrum antiolotis adversus animi morbos instructa.
Busaeus (Joannes) [Buys (Jean)]
1617
Lyon, Jean Pillehotte, 1617; duodecimo (12mo), 8 unnumbered leaves, 1030 pp., 12 unnumbered leaves of index. Contemporary limp vellum, smooth spine with manuscript title and author. Dampstaining, ties missing. Lyon edition by Jean Pillehotte, publisher of the first French edition in 1609. Title-frontispiece depicting the seven deadly sins and Christ on a seven-headed dragon. Jean Buys (1547, Nijmegen – 1611, Mainz), Jesuit priest who taught theology in Mainz. This work catalogues vices and virtues, immoral behaviours regarded as mental illnesses, and their biblical remedies.
Panarion, hoc est arca medica variis divinaee scriptinae priscorumque patrum antiolotis adversus animi morbos instructa. Busaeus (Joannes) [Buys (Jean)]. 1617.










