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Aurelii Cornelii Celsi Medicinae liber primus incipit

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Description: 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.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1481
Call number: 102897
Creator: Celsus, Aulus Cornelius(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Rosenbach, Oct. 1924. Occasional ms. annotations in the margins; passages numbered in Arabic numerals.

Aurelii Cornelii Celsi Medicinae liber primus incipit

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Chancery folio, with paper measuring 28.9 x 19.4 cm. Text in one column; guide letters for initials. Signatures: a-i⁶ k-l⁴ (a1 blank). Binding: three-quarters vellum over marbled paper.

102898

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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Es spricht der Meÿster Almanasor. : Das man sulle in dem Genner gü̈ten weÿn nüchtern trincken

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Almanac in German with astrological notes and illustrations. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.2 x 15.5 cm. Signatures: [a-h⁸ i⁶ (a1, i6 blank)]. Illustrations hand colored. Running titles, rubrication and numbering of the days of the month in red. Leaf a1 damaged and mounted on free endpaper at beginning. Binding: contemporary German blindstamped calfskin over boards; remnants of metal clasp. Rebacked.

90912

Incipit libellus de vita [et] moribus philosophorum [et] poetarum

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Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.2 x 14.8 cm. Text in one column measuring approximately 12.9 x 7.7 cm. Spaces left for initials. Signatures: [a-m⁸ n⁶ (a1 blank)]. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf [a]1) lacking. Binding errors: leaf d[8] bound before leaf [d]7 and leaves [f]5 and [f]6 bound before leaves [f]3 and [f]4. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: blue morocco.

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Die natürlichen meister haben in irer schul vnd vbung für genume[n] vn gedisputirt em hübsche gemeine frag. Ob ei[ne]m Ma[n]ne sei zu nemen ein elich Weibe

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Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.1 x 14.6 cm; text in one column measuring approximately 12.3 x 8.5 cm. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d⁸ e⁶ f-g¹⁰ h-i⁸ k-n¹⁰ (a1 blank)]. Initials in red or blue; rubrication in red. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf a1) lacking. Modern binding using a 15th century German[?] manuscript parchment leaf from antiphonal as a covering.

87167

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In three parts: the Lapidarius attributed to Aristotle, the Quomodo virtutes pretiosorum lapidum augmentantur and the Physiognomia. Signatures: [a¹⁰ b-d⁸ e⁶ (a1, e6 blank)]. Imperfect; initial and final blank leaves (leaves [a]1, [e]6) lacking. Large initial on leaf [a]2r in red and blue, subsequent initials in red or green (some initial spaces left blank); rubrication in red. Binding: panelled calf.

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Aurelii Cornelii Celsi Medicinae liber primus incipit

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