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Cornelii Celsi De medicina liber incipit

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Description: Edited by Bartolomaeus Fontius, in collaboration with Franciscus Saxettus. Chancery folio and Royal quarto, with paper measuring 27.2 x 19.8 cm. One column of text, 34 lines; area of text: 18 x 11 cm. With initial spaces and guide-letters; without foliation and catchwords, except for one catchword on leaf pi6. Quires pi and a-x, leaves y2.5, y3.4, z2.5 and z3.4 are folio; rest are quarto.--Cf. BM 15th cent., IV, p. 627. Signatures: pi⁶ a⁴ b-i⁶ l-z⁶ &⁶ 2a-g⁶ 2h⁴ A⁸ (A8 blank). Imperfect: gathering A (the Tabula) lacking. Binding: red morocco; in green morocco solander case.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1478
Call number: 86255
Creator: Celsus, Aulus Cornelius(Opens in new tab)

Aurelii Cornelii Celsi Medicinae liber primus incipit

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Chancery folio, with paper measuring 28.9 x 19.4 cm. Text in one column; guide letters for initials. Signatures: a-i⁶ k-l⁴ (a1 blank). Binding: three-quarters vellum over marbled paper.

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Aurelii Cornelii Celsi Medicinae liber primus incipit

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Royal quarto, with paper measuring 28.2 x 20.2 cm. Text in one column. Capital spaces with guide letters. Signatures: a-i⁸ K⁸ l-s⁸ [t]⁸ (a1, t8 blank). Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf a1) lacking. First initial decorated in red, blue, and green inks along with gold leaf; subsequent initials in red and blue. Rubrication in red and blue. Binding: contemporary Italian blindstamped calf over wooden boards; remnants of leather clasps. In box.

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Incipit Tractatus de uirtutibus herbarum

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This edition, without synonyms, is the first known Italian edition of the anonymous Herbarius. Cf. BM 15th cent. Often wrongly attributed to Arnaldus de Villanova. Title page includes portraits of Avicenna and Arnaldus de Villanova. Includes 150 woodcut illustrations of plants. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.8 x 14.1 cm; 33 lines; area of text: 14.4 x 8.9 cm. With woodcut initials; woodcut border on leaf pi2; initial spaces with guide-letters from leaf u2 until the end; paragraph marks and headlines; without catchwords. Signatures: pi⁴ a-x⁸ (pi1, t8 blank). Binding: green morocco; binder's stamp: Bound by Lloyd.

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Nicolai Leoniceni De Plinij [et] pluriu[m] alioru[m] in medicina erroribus liber ad doctissimu[m] virum Angelum Politianu[m]

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Chancery quarto with paper measuring 19.3 x 13.8 cm. Text in one column, 36 lines. With one initial space on leaf a2; without guide-letters, foliation and catchwords. Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ c⁶. Binding: blind-tooled tan morocco.

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Incipit liber magistri Egidii De pulsibus metrice compositus

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Gilles de Corbeil's De pulsibus with commentary by Gentilis de Fulgines and edited by Venatius Mutius. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.8 x 14.6 cm; text in one column measuring approximately 14.2 x 9.1 cm. Signatures: [a-c⁸ d-g⁶]. Modern binding using a vellum manuscript leaf from an antiphonal as a wrapper.

99934

Incipit libellus de vita [et] moribus philosophorum [et] poetarum

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Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.2 x 14.8 cm. Text in one column measuring approximately 12.9 x 7.7 cm. Spaces left for initials. Signatures: [a-m⁸ n⁶ (a1 blank)]. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf [a]1) lacking. Binding errors: leaf d[8] bound before leaf [d]7 and leaves [f]5 and [f]6 bound before leaves [f]3 and [f]4. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: blue morocco.

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Cornelii Celsi De medicina liber incipit

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