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![Dis ist das Buch der Cirurgia. : Hantwirckung der Wundartzny / von Hyero[n]imo Bru[n]schwig](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4E437Z%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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There are several variants of this edition, which had two distinct issues. The second issue, first state, corrected minor errors in the text, but not the date of publication, expanded the content of the fourth tract, and included two additional woodcut illustrations. The second issue, second state finally corrected the date of publication to read ".M.cccc.xcvii." Chancery folio, with paper measuring 26.9 x 18.8 cm. Text printed in 2 columns of 42-43 lines and headline; col. width: 6.1 cm.; area of text: 19.6 (20.5) x 13.3 cm. With foliation and signatures; without catchwords. Includes 48 mostly full- or half-page woodcut illustrations (many are repeated). Generally, they depict the master surgeon, his apprentices, his patients, and his instruments in a variety of scenarios. There are also 3 smaller sets of illustrations of surgical instruments within the text. The second issue contains two additional woodcut illustrations.--Cf. Schramm. Numerous foliation errors. Signatures: pi⁶ A-V⁶. Imperfect: leaf pi6 lacking. Binding: 16th/17th century Italian[?] semi-limp parchment; stamped "1604" on front cover.
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![Liber de arte distillandi. de simplicibus. = Das buch der rechten kunst zü̈ distilieren die eintzige[n] ding / von Hieronymo Brunschwygk, bürtig vn[d] wund artzot der keiserliche[n] frye[n] statt Strassburg](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN463E28M%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29 x 20.6 cm. Printed in double columns. Leaf C2r: 47 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 22.7 (23.8) x 15.1 cm.; col. width: 7.2 cm. Printed initials and initial spaces, most with guide letters. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords. Numerous woodcut illustrations, including 6 large illustrations (leaf A1r: a garden in which plants are being harvested and distilled; leaf A2r: a teacher and four students; leaf C1r: a crowned scholar at his reading desk; leaves C4v-C5r: a banner containing a poem; leaf E1r: a kneeling young man offering a book to a king; leaf Z2r: three doctors at a patient's bedside) and many smaller ones of plants, animals and distillation apparatus. Cf. Schreiber. Errors in foliation: leaves LXXXI and CLXVIII misnumbered as LXXVII and CXVIII, respectively. Signatures: A-D⁸ E-Z⁶ 2A-2O⁶. Binding: 18th century sprinkled sheepskin.
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![Dyse practica ist gemacht vff das fünffzehen hundert jar nach Cristi vnsers herren geburt. : Vnnd weret zechen jar lang die nesten nach ein ander. vnd sagt von wunderliche[n] dingen die in der zyt geschehen sollen in der welt](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN47IW2_9%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.9 x 14.1 cm. Text in one column with woodcut initials. Woodcut illustrations. Signatures: A-D⁸/⁴ E-F⁸. Imperfect: leaves F1 and F8 lacking. Binding: modern parchment over boards with vellum thongs.
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![Hie nach volgt das buch der natur. : Innhaltende zum ersten vo[n] eigenschafft vnd natur dess menschen. Darnach von der natur vn[d] eigenschafft dess hymels. d[e] tier. des gefugels. der kreüter. d[e] stein. vn[d] von vilandern natürlichen dingen](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN412TCKX%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Includes fourteen full page woodcut illustrations. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 26.6 x 19 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 20.5 x 12.9. Woodcut initials. Signatures: pi² a⁸ b-z⁶ A-E⁶ (E6 blank). Imperfect: leaves a1 and B1 lacking and replaced with facsimiles. Binding: contemporary German half blindstamped calfskin and beech boards.
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![Die natürlichen meister haben in irer schul vnd vbung für genume[n] vn gedisputirt em hübsche gemeine frag. Ob ei[ne]m Ma[n]ne sei zu nemen ein elich Weibe](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4SSPPM%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.1 x 14.6 cm; text in one column measuring approximately 12.3 x 8.5 cm. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d⁸ e⁶ f-g¹⁰ h-i⁸ k-n¹⁰ (a1 blank)]. Initials in red or blue; rubrication in red. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf a1) lacking. Modern binding using a 15th century German[?] manuscript parchment leaf from antiphonal as a covering.
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![Fratris Baptistae Mant[uani] Carmelitae theologi ad reuere[n]dissimu[m] i[n] Christo patre[m] ac dominu[m] D. Oliuerium Carafam: Sabinen. episcopu[m] et cardinalem Neapolitanum De suorum temporu[m] calamitatibus liber feliciter incipit](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN412U198%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Edited by Franciscus Ceretus. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.3 x 15.7 cm. Text in one column. Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters. Signatures: a⁴ b-c⁸ d-i⁶ k⁸. Includes Baptista Mantuanus' Contra poetas impudice loquentes on leaves a1v-a4v. Binding: three-quarters vellum.
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