Imperfect: title leaf and some leaves of index soiled, torn and restored. Closely trimmed.
Includes Mattioli's Italian translation of Dioscorides.
The sixth book is the De venenis and De venenatis animalibus, in some versions called books 6-9.
Published in Latin in the previous year with the Latin version of Dioscorides under title: Commentarii in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis De medica materia.
The discorsi are a revision and enlargement of those published originally with the 1544 edition of the five books of Mattioli's Italian translation of Dioscorides (Libri cinque della historia & materia medicinale) and with the 1548 edition of the six books (Il Dioscoride dell'eccellente dottor medico m. P. Andrea Matthioli)