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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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Translation of Joannes de Ketham's Fasciculus medicinae into Spanish; also includes Spanish translations of Vasco de Taranta's De epidemia et peste and Michael Scotus' Liber Physiognomiae. Leaves VII, XV and XXV are folded with woodcut illustrations and text, leaves XV and XXV included in the foliation. Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁶ d⁸(-d8) e-g⁸ h⁶ i-k⁴.
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![In comincia el dignissimo fasiculo de medicina : in volgare el quale tracta de tute le infirmitate del corpo humano & de la anotomia de quello & multi altri tractati composti p[er] diuersi excelentissimi doctori con auctorita e testi prouadi & prima la exposition del colore delle vrine e iudicio de quelle](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4SURWBR%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 ... This collection of texts was in circulation by 1400."--ISTC. Translated by Sebastianus Manilius; edited by Petrus Andrea Morsiano. Includes Pietro da Tossignano's Consilium pro peste evitanda (leaves e2v-f2r) and Mondino dei Luzzi's Anothomia (leaves f3r-i3v). Includes ten full-page woodcuts, with one printed in color: the library of Petrus de Montagnana (leaf a1r); urinoscopic consultation (leaf a1v); circle of urine glasses (a2r); disease man (a4r); Zodiac man (b2r); vein man (b2v); wound man (b6v); pregnant woman (d1r); scene in the chamber of a plague patient (e2r); and dissection scene (leaf f2r, in color). Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29.6 x 20.5 cm. 48 lines to a full-page; area of text: 26.3 x 16.4 cm. Includes initial spaces with guide-letters. With signatures; without foliation and catchwords Signatures: a-h⁶ i⁴. Imperfect: trimmed, with occasional loss of outside edges of illustrations and signature marks. Binding: half Spanish calf with marbled paper.
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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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