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Ioannis Mesue medici clarissimi cum certa additione Petri Apponi medici preclari liber feliciter finit

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Pseudo-Mesuë̈ the Younger, Yahya Ibn Māsawaih, supposed to have been a Jacobite Christian living in the 10th century, but now believed to been a Latin author of the early 13th century using the name Mesuë. Edited by Petrus Gulosius de Amalfia. Median folio, with paper measuring 33.5 x 22.6 cm. Text in one column, approximately 23.8 x 14.3 cm. Spaces left for initials. Signatures: [a¹⁰ b-k⁸ l⁶ m-z⁸ 2a⁸ 2b¹⁰ (2b10 blank)]. Hand-drawn borders on pages [2] and [3] with the one of page [3] hand-colored in red, green and yellow. Coats of arms drawn on top and bottom of page [3], with angels surrounding the one in the lower margin. Binding: brown morocco; binder's stamp: Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd.
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Date
[3 Jan. 1478]
Call number
92533
Creator
Pseudo-Mesuë(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased from Vollbehr, Nov. 1, 1924. Extensive contemporary ms. annotations [medical recipes?] on pages [1], [402], [403] and [404]. Occasional ms. annotations and manicules in the margins.
Dimensions
35 cm (Folio)
Associated people
Petrus,
Guldenmund, Conrad,
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