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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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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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![Fratris Baptistae Mant[uani] Carmelitae theologi ad reuere[n]dissimu[m] i[n] Christo patre[m] ac dominu[m] D. Oliuerium Carafam: Sabinen. episcopu[m] et cardinalem Neapolitanum De suorum temporu[m] calamitatibus liber feliciter incipit](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN412U198%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Edited by Franciscus Ceretus. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.3 x 15.7 cm. Text in one column. Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters. Signatures: a⁴ b-c⁸ d-i⁶ k⁸. Includes Baptista Mantuanus' Contra poetas impudice loquentes on leaves a1v-a4v. Binding: three-quarters vellum.
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![F[rat]ris Baptistae Man. Carmelitae theologi ad reuere[n]dissimum in Christo patre[m] ac D[omi]n[u]m D. Oliueriu[m] Carafa[m]: Sabinen. Ep[iscopu]m & Cardinale[m] Neapolitanu[m] De suo[rum] t[em]poru[m] calamitatibus](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4SQ31H%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Imprint from colophon. Full colophon reads: Calamitatum nostri temporis op[us] diuinu[m]. Parisiis impressum per Michaele[m] Lenoir. Anno natiuitatis domini millesimo nonagesimo octtauo die decima tertia mensis Marcij. Includes additions by Franciscus Ceretus. Woodcut printer's device on title page and illustration of the Crucifixion on the title page verso. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 19.9 x 12.8 cm. Text in one column. Signatures: 2a⁸ 2b-2h⁶ 2i-2k⁸. Illustration on t.p. verso and capital letters on leaf a2r touched in yellow. Binding: half green morocco with marbled paper.
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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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![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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