In comincia el dignissimo fasiculo de medicina : in volgare el quale tracta de tute le infirmitate del corpo humano & de la anotomia de quello & multi altri tractati composti p[er] diuersi excelentissimi doctori con auctorita e testi prouadi & prima la exposition del colore delle vrine e iudicio de quelle | Collections | The Huntington

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In comincia el dignissimo fasiculo de medicina : in volgare el quale tracta de tute le infirmitate del corpo humano & de la anotomia de quello & multi altri tractati composti p[er] diuersi excelentissimi doctori con auctorita e testi prouadi & prima la exposition del colore delle vrine e iudicio de quelle

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Description: "Johannes de Ketham can be convincingly identified as Hans von Kircheim of Swabia ... This collection of texts was in circulation by 1400."--ISTC. Translated by Sebastianus Manilius; edited by Petrus Andrea Morsiano. Includes Pietro da Tossignano's Consilium pro peste evitanda (leaves e2v-f2r) and Mondino dei Luzzi's Anothomia (leaves f3r-i3v). Includes ten full-page woodcuts, with one printed in color: the library of Petrus de Montagnana (leaf a1r); urinoscopic consultation (leaf a1v); circle of urine glasses (a2r); disease man (a4r); Zodiac man (b2r); vein man (b2v); wound man (b6v); pregnant woman (d1r); scene in the chamber of a plague patient (e2r); and dissection scene (leaf f2r, in color). Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29.6 x 20.5 cm. 48 lines to a full-page; area of text: 26.3 x 16.4 cm. Includes initial spaces with guide-letters. With signatures; without foliation and catchwords Signatures: a-h⁶ i⁴. Imperfect: trimmed, with occasional loss of outside edges of illustrations and signature marks. Binding: half Spanish calf with marbled paper.
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