Bod-Inc: A-433
Arnoldus de Villa Nova
De arte cognoscendi venena.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Arnoldus de Villa Nova: De arte cognoscendi venena. Incipit: ‘[T]imens de uenenis caueat sibi de manu cuius recipiet cibos et potus suos et maxime potum uini . . .’ Arnoldus de Villa Nova, Opera (Lyons, 1520), fols 221va -222ra. See Thorndike–Kibre 1573; Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz, Index scriptorum Latinorum medii aevi Hispanorum (Madrid, 1959), 342 no. 1694; Juan A. Paniagua, Estudios y notas sobre Arnau de Vilanova (Madrid, 1963), 20; Juan A. Paniagua, El maestro Arnau de Vilanova médico (Valencia, 1969), 67.
[a4r] ‘Additio.’ Incipit: ‘[N]ota quod curatio ueneni fit aliquo istorum quatuor modorum . . .’
[a4r] Valascus de Tarenta: ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘[P]remeditans procellam humani generis morbis epidimialibns(!) continue illatam, in honorem dei et uirginis gloriose et ne candela sub modio recondatur . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1083.
[a4v] [Table of contents.]
[a4v] Valascus de Tarenta: De epidemia et peste. Incipit: ‘[Q]uod uidimus testamur et quod testamur uerum est . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1256; A. C. Klebs and K. Sudhoff, Die ersten gedruckten Pestschriften (Munich, 1926), 54 and 76 no. 119; A. C. Klebs and E. Droz, Remèdes contre la peste (Paris, 1925), 89 no. 119.
[c2r] [Table of contents.]
[c3v] Petrus de Abano: [Prologue addressed to] Nicolaus III, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[R]everendissimo in Cristo patri et domino domino Nicolao, diuina prouidentia summo pontifici . . .’
[c4r] Petrus de Abano: De venenis. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia uenenum oppositum est cibo nostri corporis ideo sicut cibus ipse efficitur pars nostri corporis . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1234.
[e7v] [Silvaticus, Matthaeus]: De lapide Begaar [Bezoar] ex pandectis. Incipit: ‘[L]apis Begaar Latine uel lapis liberans a uenenis Arabi, Hager, Begaar. Begaar est nomen Persicum et est expellens nocumentum . . .’ See Silvaticus, Pandectarum opus (Venice, 1524), sig. q3v, with some variations; also Thorndike II,909-10. On authorship see Thorndike III 233-4.
Imprint
Imprint: Mantua: [Johannes Vurster and Johannes Baumeister], 1473. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a b8 c10 d e8].
References
ISTC: ia01065900
GW: GW 2522;
Hain: HC 7 + 1805;
Goff: Goff A‑1067;
BMC: BMC VII 929;
Proctor: Pr 6884;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑735; CIBN A‑569; Oates 2583; Osler, IM, 41; Rhodes, ‘Mantua', 178-9, nos 9 and 12; Sheppard 5618-19.
LCN: 13978334, 13978377
Copies
Copy number: A-433(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [c1].
Gatherings [c]–[e] bound before [a]–[b].
Binding: Mottled sheep(?) [Sheppard describes as brown morocco]; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 242 × 173 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 234 × 161 mm.
Occasional marginal annotations.
Five- and three-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red.
Provenance: inscription: ‘De Peregrinis', on [c2r]. Oxford, Radcliffe Library; probably purchased by the Radcliffe Library in 1850 from William Pamplin (1806-1899); note on verso of endleaf: ‘Pamplin, Nov. 20, 1850'; white shelfmark label inside the upper cover, with ‘RR.W.297' written in pencil over an earlier shelfmark. Transferred by the Radcliffe Trustees between 1861 and 1893.
Former Radcliffe shelfmark: RR.W.297.
SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I18.1473.1.
Copy number: A-433(2)
Wanting gatherings [a] and [b].
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf.
Size: 218 × 160 × 9 mm.
Size of leaf: 211 × 148 mm.
Manuscript titles on [c1r].
Provenance: Luigi Serra, 4th Duca di Cassano (1747-1825); see Catalogo, 5, under ‘Abano, Pet. de'. George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); sale (1821), lot 1; purchased for £0. 6. 0; see Books Purchased (1821), 1 and the annotated sale catalogue.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.23.
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