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Liber phisionomie magistri Michaelis Scoti

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Description: Colophon reads: Michaelis Scoti de p[ro]creatione et hominis phisionomia opus feliciter funit [sic]. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.1 x 14.8 cm. Text printed in 2 columns; 39 lines per column. With initial spaces; without foliation and catchwords. Signatures: a-b⁸ c-e⁶. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: three-quarters calf with decorated paper.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [approximately 1485]
Call number: 95852
Creator: Scot, Michael (approximately 1175-approximately 1234)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Vollbehr, March 23, 1925. Inscription on title page: Ad Conventu[m] vallis Areciose[?].

Phisonomia Michaelis Scoti

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Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁶ e⁸ f⁶. Imperfect: leaf f6 torn, with slight loss of text. Initials and rubrication in red. Bound with: De secretis mulierum. Albertus Magnus De secretis mulierum et virorum. [Leipzig: Conrad Kachelofen, approximately 1490].

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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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Chancery quarto with paper measuring 19.3 x 13.8 cm. Text in one column, 36 lines. With one initial space on leaf a2; without guide-letters, foliation and catchwords. Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ c⁶. Binding: blind-tooled tan morocco.

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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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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.

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Incipit opus Alberti Magni. De mirabilibus mundi lege foeliciter

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Often wrongly attributed to Albertus, Magnus. Colophon title: Albertus. Magnus. De. secretis naturae explicit Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 21.3 x 14.4 cm. Text in one column, measuring approximately 13.5 x 8.3 cm. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰]. Initials and rubrication in blue and red. Binding: contemporary blind-stamped Italian goatskin over beech boards; remnants of clasp.

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Hie nach stend verczeÿchnet die aussgepranten wasser in welicher mass man die zü den gelidern nüczen vn prauchen sol / als den meysten Michel Schrick doctor im der Erczneÿ die beschriben hat vnd ist gar güt vn nüczlich züwissen

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Michael Puff von Schrick's Von den ausgebrannten Wässern. Chancery folio, with paper measuring 25.1 x 18.3 cm. Signatures: [a⁶ b⁴ c⁶ (c6 blank)]. Imperfect: final blank leaf (leaf c6) lacking. Woodcut initials on leaf [a]2r filled in with red; rubrication in red. Binding: blind-tooled calf.

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