Een onbekende zestiende-eeuwse druk over de geneeskundige kracht van de petroleum

Abstract

SUMMARY: An unknown 16th-century pamphlet about the healing power of petroleum. Among the recent acquisitions of the Royal Library of Belgium, in Brussels, there is a curious pamphlet entitled : Sensuyvent les vertus de la vertueuse pétrole... The author is Maistre Charle de Minne, living in Antwerp, and the pamphlet was probably printed in that city about 1550. We know, at present, of six pamphlets dealing with the same subject and which were published between the years 1480 and 1550. Two of them prove to be written by Charle de Minne: the former was described by R. J. Forbes, and is in a private collection in the U.S.A., which could not be traced ; the latter has been acquired by the R. L. All of them may be traced back either to a treatise by Francesco Peregrino Ariosti, a physician and a poet at the Court of the Este, in 1460, or to the Hortus Sanitatis. The original ms. of Ariosti's work is no longer to be found.