Footnotes

[6] The first edition, dedicated to Cardinal Alexander Farnese, has the following title-page: “Artis Gymnasticæ apud Antiquos celeberrimæ, nostris temporibus ignoratæ, Libri Sex. In quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates & quicquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet, diligenter explicatur. Opus non modo medicis, verum etiam omnibus antiquarum rerum cognoscendarum, & valetudinis conservandæ studiosis admodum utile. Palæstræ descriptio ex Vetruvio sub litera B. Auctore Hieronymo Mercuriali Foroliviensi, Medico & Philosopho. Venetiis, Apud Juntas. MDLXIX.” The second edition, like the third and the fourth, is illustrated, and dedicated to Emperor Maximilian II. The title-page is changed to read: “Hieronymi Mercurialis de arte gymnastica Libri Sex, in quibus exercitationum ... admodum utile (as in first edition). Secunda editione aucti, & multis figuris ornati. Ad Maximilianum II. Imperatorem. Venetiis apud Juntas, MDLXXIII.” The Paris issue of this second edition substitutes the words “Parisiis, Apud Jacobum du Puys, via Joannis Lateranensis, sub signo Samaritanæ. 1577.” The third edition (“Tertia editione correctiores, & auctiores facti”) was published “Venetiis, MDLXXXVII. Apud Juntas,” and the fourth edition (“Quarta editione correctiores, & auctiores facti”), “Venetiis, apus Juntas. MDCI.”

The title-page of the Amsterdam edition reads: “Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis de Arte Gymnastica Libri Sex: in quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet diligenter explicatur. Editio novissima, aucta, emendata, & figuris authenticis Christophori Coriolani exornata. Amstelodami, Sumptibus Andreæ Frisii,” (1672).

In this connection may be mentioned also “The Muscles and Their Story, from the Earliest Times; including the Whole Text of Mercurialis, and the Opinions of Other Writers Ancient and Modern, on Mental and Bodily Development. By John W. F. Blundell, M.D., Licentiate of the Royal College of Edinburgh, Author of ‘Medicina Mechanica,’ etc.” London, Chapman & Hall, 1864.

[7] The table of contents, translated, is given in full at the foot of pp. 477-479 in the Report of the United States Commissioner of Education for 1891-1892, vol. 1.

[8] Translated by Karl Wassmannsdorff in Deutsche Turnzeitung, 17 (1872); 272, 279.

[9] Chapter 23. The entire passage is given in English at the foot of pp. 472-474 in the report of the United States Commissioner of Education for 1891-1892, vol. 1.

[10] Quotations from these chapters will be found in Barnard’s Am. Jour. Educ., 16, 490-496 (1866). In 1545 Roger Ascham (1515-1568), author of The Scholemaster, published his “Toxophilus, the schole of shootinge conteyned in two bookes.”