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![Incipit Fasciculus medicine / compositus per excelle[n]tissimum artium ac medicine doctorum: dominu[m] Ioa[n]nem de Ketham Alamanum: tractans de anothomia [et] diuersis infirmitatibus: [et] corporis humani: cui annectuntur multi alij tractatus per diuersos excelle[n]tissimos doctores co[m]positi. Necnon anthomia Mu[n]dini](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN412ABZP%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Johannes de Ketham can be convincingly identified as Hans von Kircheim of Swabia, fl. 1455-1470, who used this collection for his lectures and recommended it to his pupils. This collection of texts was in circulation by 1400. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 30.5 x 20.7 cm. Text in 2 columns; printer's device on leaf f4r. Includes Pietro da Tossignano's Consilium pro peste evitanda (leaves c5-d2), Mondino dei Luzzi's Anothomia (leaves d3-f3 verso), and Abῡ̄ Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzī's De egritudinibus puerorum (leaves f3-f4). Includes ten full-page woodcuts: the library of Petrus de Montagnana (a1); urinoscopic consultation (a1 verso); circle of urine glasses (a2); vein man (a3 verso); zodiacal man (a6 verso); pregnant woman (b1); wound man (b5); disease man (c2); scene in the chamber of a plague patient (c4 verso); and dissection scene (d2 verso). Signatures: a-d⁶ e-f⁴. Binding: red morocco.
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![Sequu[n]tur expositiones tabule prime fasciculi medicine](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4UV2YR6%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Johannes de Ketham can convincingly be identified as Hans von Kircheim of Swabia, fl. 1455-1470. This collection of texts was in circulation by 1400. Cf. K. Sudhoff: The fasciculus medicinae of Johannes de Ketham, Alemanus. Milan, 1924. "Consiliu[m] clarissimi doctoris d[omi]ni Petri de Tausignano p[ro] peste euitanda" on pages [27]-[30]. Royal folio, with paper measuring 38.3 x 26.8 cm. Woodcut illustration on leaf a1v printed in red and black. Signatures: a-b⁸ (b8 blank). Initials in red. Binding: Limp vellum wrappers with remnants of leather ties made from manuscript waste from a 13th century [?] biblical commentary.
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![Fasciculus medicine in quo continentur: videlicet. ; Primo iudicia vrinarum cum suis accidentijs. Secu[n]do tractatus de flobotomia. Tertio de cyrogia. Quarto de matrice mulieru[m] [et] impregnatione. Quinto concilia vtilissima contra epidemia[m]. Sexto de anothomia mu[n]dini toti[us] corporis humani: et q[uam]plura alia que hic no[n] explanantur in titulo habe[n]tur in hijs opusculis: vt manifestetur legenti](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4JO703B%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Anonymous. By Horace Walpole. Some copies have an added titlepage printed in black, red and blue. 200 copies printed. "List of books printed at Strawberry-Hill": p. 87-88; "Curiosities added since this book was completed": p. 93-94; "More additions": p. 95-96.
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