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Incipit Tractatus de uirtutibus herbarum

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Description: 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.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [27 Oct. 1491]
Call number: 88180
Provenance: Purchased from Maggs, Sept. 16, 1924. Occasional contemporary ms. annotations, some trimmed.

Dyalogus creaturaru[m] optime moralizatus. omni materie morali iocu[n]do mo[do] applicabil[is]: ad laude[m] dei [et] edificatione[m] ho[m]i[nu]m Incipit feliciter

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Ascribed to Nicolaus Pergamenus on the basis of Paris BN MS. lat 8512, and to the Milanese doctor Mayno de Mayneriis (Magninus Mediolanensis) on the basis of a MS. at Cremona C, supported by local references in the text. Cf. ISTC. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 27.6 x 20.2 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 18.4 x 11.5 cm. Includes 122 woodcut illustrations and a woodcut initial and border on leaf a2r. Gerard Leeu's device B on leaf m6r. Signatures: pi⁶ 2pi⁴ a-l⁸ m⁶ (pi1, a1 blank). Imperfect: blank leaf pi1 lacking. Binding error: gatherings pi and 2pi bound at end after gathering m. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: red morocco. Binder's stamp: Bound by F. Bedford.

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Herbarius

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In Latin, with German synonyms for plant names. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.2 x 14.8 cm; Text in one column in main text with 32-33 lines to a full-page; area of text: 15.5 x 8.7 cm. With initial spaces with guide-letters, and foliation; without signatures and catchwords. Includes 150 woodcut illustrations of plants. Signatures: [*⁴ a-t⁸ 2a⁸ 2b¹⁰ (t8 blank)]. In Huntington Library copy, the illustrations are hand-colored. Binding error: leaf xxviij bound after leaf xxx. Binding: contemporary German blindstamp pigskin; heavily repaired. Manuscript waste under paper pastedown on inside front cover.

88177

Incipit Herbarium Apulei Platonici ad Marcum Agrippam

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Work of an unknown author based on the herbal of Dioscorides and later attached to the name of Apuleius Platonicus. A variant issue is known with a dedication to Cardinal della Rovere in place of that to Cardinal Gonzaga. 132 woodcut illustrations. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.6 x 13.8 cm. Signatures: [*⁶ a-m⁸ n⁶ (*1, n6 blank)]. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf [*]1) lacking. Leaves [*]2-[*]6, [a]1, [n]1 and [n]6 lacking and replaced with facsimiles. Huntington Library copy has the illustrations hand-colored and "silked" for conservation. Huntington Library copy is the variant, with dedication to Cardinal della Rovere. Binding: citron morocco. Binder's stamp: Bound by Lloyd London.

89924

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.

102897

Incipit libellus de uita & morib[us] ph[ilos]o[phorum] & poeta[rum]

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This is the short (or "incomplete") edition of the work - see ISTC. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 30.7 x 21 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 18 x 10.8 cm. Spaces left blank for initials. Signatures: [a⁶ b-i¹⁰ k⁸ (a1, k5-k8 blank)]. Imperfect: final blank leaf (leaf [k]8) lacking. Binding: brown morocco.

85857

Cornelii Celsi De medicina liber incipit

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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.

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Incipit Tractatus de uirtutibus herbarum

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