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Epilogo en medicina y cirurgia co[n]venie[n]te ala salud

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Description: 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.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1495
Call number: 86926
Creator: Ketham, Joannes de (active 15th century)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Vollbehr, Nov. 1, 1924. Ms. marginal annotations, some faded, in several 16th century hands, both in Spanish and Latin, some trimmed: comments and personal notes, keyword extractions, numbers or calculations, paragraph underlinings, reading marks, and pen trials.
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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

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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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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

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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

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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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Colloquios de la paz, y tranquilidad Christiana, en lengua Mexicana

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Author's name, Ioa de Gaona, mentioned in license on t.p. verso. Text entirely in Nahuatl, Prologo in Spanish, short laudatory poems by Frater Antonius in Latin. Colophon: A honra, y gloria de n[uest]ro senor Iesu Christo, y d[e] su be[n]dita madre: acabaro[n]se de imprimir estos Colloq[ui]os, co[n] lice[n]cia y priuilegio; en Mexico, en casa d[e] Pedro Ocharte, a .xviij de Octubre, de .M.D.Lxxxij. años. Title vignette, portrait of St. Francis. "Con licencia, y priuilegio." Foliation errors: leaves 13 and 15 wrongly numbered 12 and 14, respectively. Signatures: a-b⁸ A-P⁸.

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Thesoro spiritual de pobres en le[n]gua de Michuaca[n]: : dirigida al muy Illustre y. R. Señor Don Fray Ioan de Medina Rincon electo dignissimo obispo de la dicha prouincia. / Por el muy R. Padre Fray Maturino Gilberti de la orde[n] de los menores

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Thesoro spiritual de pobres, y pan de cada dia muy sabroso: ..." -- added t.p. on the recto of leaf 12. Prefatory material followed by Cartilla para los ninos (leaves 12v-32r, a revision of his 1559 catechetical work), in Latin, Spanish and Tarascan, the latter sections marked with * in the margins. The Thesoro spiritual (leaves 32v-302) is entirely in Tarascan. Full page woodcut ills., ornamented capitals and headings, text within borders, printers device above colophon. Foliation errors: 241 misprinted as 24. Signatures: A-2O⁸ 2P⁶. Leaves B4, O3, P3 and 2K missigned as A4, 3O, 3P, and 2R respectively.

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[Sermonario en Lengua Mexicana] : [donde se contiene (por el orden del Misal nuevo Romano) dos Sermones en todas las Dominicas y Festividades principales de todo el año, y otro en las Fiestas de los Santos, con sus Vidas, y Comunes. Con un Catecismo en lengua mexicana y española, con el Calendario.] / [Compuesto por el R.P. Fr. Juan de la Anunciación, Subprior del monasterio de S. Agustín, de México]

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Title taken from copy described in Garcia Icazbalceta, J. Bibliografía Mexicana del siglo XVI ... pt. 1, no. 73. Text of the Sermonario, containing 2 sermons for each day, is in Nahuatl, for the Cathecismo in Spanish and Nahuatl in parallel columns. Half title page in Nahuatl for the saints' feast days: Nican ompehua yn temachtilli, ynitechpovi sanctoral. Separate title page: Cathecismo en lengua mexicana y espanola. En Mexico, Por Antonio Ricardo. M.D.LXXVII. Woodcut title page vignette of St. Augustine in different versions on all three title pages. Decorative initials and tail-piece. Includes index, Tablade de los sermones, and the calendar of saints' feast days. Errata on leaf 3E8v. Errors in foliation: leaves 23-24, 69, 99, 101, 133, 149, 165, 167 and 168 are misnumbered respectively: 33, 42, 70, 98, 104, 131, 159, 565, 158, 568. Signatures: A-P⁸ , Q⁴ , Aa-Mm⁸ , Nn⁴ , Aaa-Eee⁸.

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Thesoro spiritual de pobres en le[n]gua de Michuaca[n]: : dirigida al muy Illustre y. R. Señor Don Fray Ioan de Medina Rincon electo dignissimo obispo de la dicha prouincia. / Por el muy R. Padre Fray Maturino Gilberti de la orde[n] de los menores