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![Incipit liber qui dicit[ur] Secreta secretoru[m] : qui liber tractat de regimine cuiuslibet hominis quem libru[m] scripsit Aristotiles ad Alexandru[m] discipulum suum](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4LUE2G%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Huntington Library copy divided into two volumes: vol.1 contains [46] pages (gatherings a-b⁸ c⁸(-c8)); vol. 2 contains [90] pages (leaf c8, gatherings d-h⁸ i⁴). Secretum secretorum was a popular, widely disseminated text in the Middle Ages; it was believed to have been written by Aristotle for Alexander the Great. The Latin text of Secretum secretorum was translated from the Arabic Kitab Sirr al-asrar by Philip of Tripoli, early in the thirteenth century. Translated by Philippus Tripolitanus. Also includes John of Wales' De instructione principum (leaves c8r-g8r), and Breviloquium de philosophia sanctorum (leaves g8v-i3r). Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 18.3 x 13.2 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 13.3 x 8.5 cm. Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁸(-c8) (a1 blank) [whole work: a-h⁸ i⁴ (a1, i4 blank)]. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf a1) lacking. Initials in red. Binding: half calf with marbled paper.
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![Incipit liber qui dicit[ur] Secreta secretoru[m] : qui liber tractat de regimine cuiuslibet hominis quem libru[m] scripsit Aristotiles ad Alexandru[m] discipulum suum](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4NZQS56%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Huntington Library copy divided into two volumes: vol.1 contains [46] pages (gatherings a-b⁸ c⁸(-c8)); vol. 2 contains [90] pages (leaf c8, gatherings d-h⁸ i⁴). Secretum secretorum was a popular, widely disseminated text in the Middle Ages; it was believed to have been written by Aristotle for Alexander the Great. The Latin text of Secretum secretorum was translated from the Arabic Kitab Sirr al-asrar by Philip of Tripoli, early in the thirteenth century. Translated by Philippus Tripolitanus. Also includes John of Wales' De instructione principum (leaves c8r-g8r), and Breviloquium de philosophia sanctorum (leaves g8v-i3r). Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 18.3 x 13.2 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 13.3 x 8.5 cm. Signatures: leaf c8, gatherings d-h⁸ i⁴(i4 blank) [whole work: a-h⁸ i⁴ (a1, i4 blank)]. Initials in red. Binding: half calf with marbled paper.
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Group of early printed leaves from the Burndy Library collection. The leaves are from various provenances and sources. Three leaves are from the Cyril Stanley Smith collection: 1. Joannes Balbus. Catholicon, approximately 1470. 2. St. Augustine. De Civitate Dei, approximately 1470. 3. Nicolaus de Lyra. Postilla super totam bibliam, approximately 1474-1477. There is also a group of 31 leaves from Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514. Liber chronicarum (commonly known as the Nuremberg chronicles) from both the Latin and the German editions; a single, hand colored leaf from the German-language Liber chronicarum (Blat CCII) with an accompanying note that it was found in a wrapper from Becon Book Shope [sic], 23 So. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, Calif. Anton Koberger printed the Latin edition of the Liber chronicarum on 12 July 1493, with the German-language edition following on 23 December 1493. Also included is a leaf from Avicenna, 980-1037. Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (Latin title: Canon medicinae) translated into Hebrew from Arabic. This leaf is identified as being from the Hebrew edition printed in Naples by Azriel ben Joseph Ashkenazi, 1491.
![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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Collection of Greek, Roman and Arabic medical essays in Latin, including the Isagoge by Johannitius; De pulsibus and De urinis by Theophilus Philaretus; Aphorisms by Hippocrates, with commentary by Galen, edited by Constantinus Africanus; Prognostica by Hippocrates, with commentary by Galen; De regimine acutorum morborum by Hippocrates, with commentary by Galen; Epidemiae by Hippocrates, with commentary by Johannes Alexandrinus; De natura foetus by Hippocrates, translated by Bartholomaeus de Messina; Liber Tegni by Galen with commentary by Hali; De divisione librorum Galeni by Gentilis Fulginas; De lege by Hippocrates, translated by Arnoldus de Villa Nova; and Iusiurandum by Hippocrates, translated by Petrus Paulus Vergerius. Edited, with marginalia, by Gregorius a Vulpe from the edition of Franciscus Argilagnes. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 32.3 x 21.5 cm. Printed in double columns. 66 lines to a full column, plus headline. Some woodcut initials; otherwise initial spaces with guide letters. Printed marginalia and paragraph marks. With foliation and signatures; without catchwords. Register and publisher's device on leaf G5v. Errors in foliation: leaves 95 and 119 (1st count) misnumbered as 94 and 121; leaves 26, 35 and 40 (2nd count) misnumbered 25, 33, and 56, respectively. Signatures: [superscript pi]a⁸ a-r⁸, A-E⁸ F-G⁶ (G6 blank). Imperfect: leaves [superscript pi]a1 and [superscript pi]a2 torn along edges and repaired. Binding: decorated paper boards.
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![Hic codex Auienii co[n]tinet Epigra[m]ma, eiusde[m] Arati Phaenomena geographia[m] carmine heroico: & oras maritimas trimetro iambico: germanici quoq[ue], & Marci Tulii Arati fragmenta, & Sereni uersus de uariis curandis morbis](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN472B4O2%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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This volume contains the Arati Phaenomena by Avienus (leaves a4r-d3v); Avienus's Latin version of Orbis terrae descriptio by Dionysius Periegetes (leaves d3v-f6r); Ora maritima by Avienus (leaves f6r-g7r); Phaenomena by Germanicus Caesar, with a commentary by Avienus (leaves h1r-m8v); Aratea by Cicero (leaves m8v-n6v); and Liber medicinalis by Serenus Sammonicus (leaves n7r-p6r). Edited by Victor Pisanus. Cf. dedication, leaf a2. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.4 x 14.4 cm. Text in one column with guide letters. Includes 38 woodcut illustrations in the Germanicus Caesar which are, in part, reversed copies of those in the 1485 Hyginus of Ratdolt, from blocks previously used by T. de Blavis. Cf. BM 15th cent. Signatures: a¹⁰ b-p⁸ (a1, g8, p7-8 blank). Imperfect: leaves a1, p7-p8 lacking. Binding: Old English red morocco, in brown morocco solander case. Binder's stamp on case: Bound by Riviere & Son.
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