Bod-Inc: C-161
Celsus, Aurelius Cornelius
De medicina.
Analysis of Content
Subject: medicine
a1r Celsus, Aurelius Cornelius: De medicina. ‘Aurelii Cornelii Celsi Medicinae liber primus incipit.’ Incipit: ‘[U]t alimenta sanis corporibus agricultura, sic sanitatem aegris medicina promittit ...’ s8v Explicit: ‘... Nam et debilitas sequitur, et tenuis cicatrix inducitur, quae necesse est facile noxae postea pateat.’ See C‑160.
s8v Colophon: ‘Cornelii Celsi De medicina liber finit. Impressum Mediolani per Leonardum Pachel et Uldericum Sinczenzeler, diligentissime emendatum, anno Salutis M.CCCC.LXXXI.’
[t1r] [Table of contents]. ‘Primo libro Cornelii Celsi De medicina haec continentur.’ Incipit: ‘[M]edicinae intentio et divisio, variaeque de ea illustrium medicorum opiniones FOLIO 2 ...’ [t7v] Explicit: ‘De digitis fo. 144 | Finis tabule’
Imprint
Imprint: Milan Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler 1481. 4°.
Secundo folio: a2r sae non fefellerit. Neque vero inficiantur experimenta quoque esse necessaria
Collation
Collation: a–i K l–s [t8].
Remarks: Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
References
ISTC: ic00365000
GW: GW 6457;
Hain: HC 4836;
Goff: Goff C‑365;
BMC: BMC VI 750;
Proctor: Pr 5940;
Others: BSB‑Ink C‑3; Hillard 605; Sheppard 4942.
LCN: 12778100, 14837718
Copies
Copy number: C-161(1)
Binding: Italian quarter parchment over paper boards; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 285 × 205 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 277 × 192 mm.
Early marginal notes on recto of front endleaf; on [t8v] medical instructions in an early hand.
Provenance: Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); see Morelli (1787), I 1732; sale (1789), lot 6643. Purchased for £2. 19. 0; the annotated sale catalogue gives no name of purchaser, but the same price as Books Purchased (1789), 4.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 4.13.
Copy number: C-161(2)
Not in Sheppard.
Binding: Parchment.
Size: 282 × 200 × 28 mm.
Copious early marginal notes in a humanist hand.
Provenance: John Churchill; book-label. Oxford, Radcliffe Library; not found in Catalogue (1835), nor in interleaved copy of Catalogue (1835) in Radcliffe Library records, Radcliffe Science Library, thus suggesting that this incunable was acquired after 1840; book-plate with old shelfmarks 21 C.4.10a; 21 C.1.3; 78 D.10; G 160 D.1. Transferred to the Bodleian Library by the Radcliffe Trustees between 1861 and 1893.
SHELFMARK: RR.x.123 [RSL].
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