Bod-Inc: H-146
Honestis, Christophorus Georgius de
Expositio super Antidotario Mesue, et al.
Analysis of Content
a2r Honestis, Christophorus Georgius de: Expositio super Antidotario Mesue. Incipit: ‘[H]oc opus vtile prosiliendo aggrediar. Eisque qui practicam medicine desiderant . . .’
i5r Honestis, Christophorus Georgius de: De aqua ordei. Incipit: ‘[A]quam ordeaceam diligenter et commode componere volenti pauca . . .’
i6r Honestis, Christophorus Georgius de: De modo faciendi ptisanam. Incipit: ‘Accipe farine ordei cocleraria duo . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: Bologna: Henricus de Harlem and Johannes Walbeck, 15 Apr. 1488. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–f6 g4 h i6.
References
ISTC: ih00320500
Hain: HCR 8798;
BMC: BMC VI 831;
Proctor: Pr 6562;
Others: CIBN H‑186; Sack, Freiburg, 1864; Sheppard 5358.
LCN: 14461915
Copies
Copy number: H-146(1)
Bound with:
1. Savonarola, Michael, De pulsibus, urinis et egestionibus. Bologna: Henricus de Harlem and Johannes Walbeck, 8 May 1487 (S‑104);
2. Savonarola, Michael, De febribus. Bologna: Dionysius de Bertochus, 8 Mar. 1487 (S‑103);
4. Saladinus de Asculo, Compendium aromatariorum. Ferrara: Andreas Belfortis, Gallus, 5 Apr. 1488 (S‑006);
5. Rhasis, Mohammed, Liber nonus ad Almansorem [Petrus de Tussignano's Receptae only]. Venice: Bernardinus Stagninus, de Tridino, 30 Mar. 1483 (H‑060(2)).
Binding: Contemporary Italian blind-tooled quarter calf over wooden boards, with remains of two catches, hinged from upper to lower cover, each fastened with three star-shaped nails, fastened onto triangular catches. Triple fillets form a frame; diagonal triple fillets divide the area within the frame into lozenge-shaped and triangular compartments, each decorated with a floral stamp. ‘Savonarola de febribus' along the lower edge. Rebacked; the original spine pasted onto the rear pastedown.
Size: 315 × 214 × 67 mm.
Size of leaf: 305 × 205 mm.
On the front endleaf, numerous medical recipes in a contemporary Italian hand: ‘Collirium pro occulis . . .' In the same hand, extensive marginal annotations in brown and red ink throughout all five items, which must therefore have been bound together from an early stage.
Provenance: Ulrich Hoepli, Catalogue 83 (1892), no. 523. Purchased for 100 Lire; see Library Bills, 14 Dec. 1892.
SHELFMARK: Inc. c. I11.1487.1(3).
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