Bod-Inc: C-160
Celsus, Aurelius Cornelius
De medicina (ed. Bartholomaeus Fontius).
Analysis of Content
[*1v] Fontius, Bartholomaeus: [Letter to Franciscus] Saxetus. Incipit: ‘Ex omnibus ingenii monumentis . . .’
[*2r] Celsus, Aurelius Cornelius: De medicina. Edited by Bartholomaeus Fontius. Cornelius Celsus, De medicina, ed. C. Daremberg (Leipzig, 1859-91). Cornelius Celsus, Quae supersunt, ed. Friedrich Marx, Corpus medicorum latinorum, 1 (Leipzig and Berlin, 1915). Cornelius Celsus, De medicina, ed. W. G. Spencer, 3 vols (London and Cambridge, Mass., 1935-8, repr. 1960-1). Cornelius Celsus, De medicina, ed. Fabrizio Serra, 2 vols, Scriptorum Romanorum quae extant omnia (Pisa, 1976-7), 264-7.
A1r [Table of contents.]
Imprint
Imprint: Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 1478. Folio and 4°.
Collation
Collation: [*6] a4 b–i l–z & aa–gg6 hh4 A8.
References
ISTC: ic00364000
GW: GW 6456;
Hain: HC *4835;
Goff: Goff C‑364;
BMC: BMC VI 627;
Proctor: Pr 6116;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑2; Oates 2333; Rhodes 532; Sheppard 5059.
LCN: 14837746
Copies
Copy number: C-160(1)
Wanting the blank leaf A8.
Gatherings [*]–x (except sheet r3.4) and sheets y2.5, y3.4, and z3.4 are in folio, the rest are in quarto, not identical with BMC. Gathering A is bound first. The last three digits of the date in the colophon have been erased.
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled calf; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 250 × 190 × 40 mm.
Size of leaf: 245 × 172 mm.
Early marginal notes in humanist hands.
Provenance: Charles de Rohan (1715-1787), Prince de Soubise; Catalogue (1789), lot 3451. Purchased for £8. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1790), 6.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 3.18.
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