Bod-Inc: M-205
Mesue, Johannes
De medicinis laxativis; Grabadin, et al. (ed. Petrus Gulosius de Amalfia).
Analysis of Content
[a1v] Petrus Gulosius de Amalfia: [Editorial note.] Incipit: ‘Cum inter autores qui medendi artem preceptis tradidere . . .’ Explicit: diligentissime curaui
[a2r] Mesue, Johannes [pseudo-]: De medicinis laxativis (Libri II). ‘Incipit liber Ioannis mesue de complexionibus proprietatibus electionibus operationibus que simplicium medicinarum laxativarum.’ [Preface.] The entire volume was edited by Petrus Gulosius de Amalfia. Incipit: ‘[I]n nomine dei misericordis cuius nutu sermo recipit gratiam . . .’ See M‑204.
[a2r] [List of contents for book I.]
[a2v] Mesue, Johannes [pseudo-]: De medicinis laxativis (Liber I:) Canones Universales. Incipit: ‘[D]icimus quod medicina laxatiua non est a re complexionali . . .’ Explicit: ii vel ad iii See M‑204.
[c4v] [List of contents for book II.]
[c5r] Mesue, Johannes [pseudo-]: De medicinis laxativis (Liber II:) De simplicibus. Incipit: ‘[P]rotellauimus sermonem usque huc intentiones . . . [A]loes est de melioribus . . .’ Not in Thorndike–Kibre.
[g1v] Mesue, Johannes [pseudo-]: Grabadin (Liber I:) Antidotarium. ‘Incipit Grabadin Johannis filii Mesue quod est aggregatio vel antidotarium medicinarum compositarum'. Incipit: ‘[S]cripsimus in libris explanationum nostrarum . . .’ Explicit: antiquius tanto melius See M‑204.
[m1r] Mesue, Johannes [pseudo-]: Grabadin (Liber II:) Practica de medicinis particularium aegritudinum. Incipit: ‘[S]anat solus languores Deus . . .’ See M‑204.
[y7v] Petrus de Abano: Additiones ad practicam Mesue. Incipit: ‘[S]i autem fuerit in eo humor mordicans . . .’ Explicit: librarum duarum See Thorndike–Kibre 1442.
Imprint
Imprint: Naples: Conradus Guldenmund, 3 Jan. 1478. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a10 b–k8 l6 m–z8 A8 B10].
References
ISTC: im00511000
Hain: R 255;
Goff: Goff M‑511;
Proctor: Pr 6718;
Others: CIBN M‑323; Fava–Bresciano 160; Osler, IM 153; Sheppard 5455. Microfiche: Unit 11: Medical Incunabula: Part I.
LCN: 14454547
Copies
Copy number: M-205(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [B10].
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century half diced russia over blue marbled pasteboards; green-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 312 × 212 × 44 mm.
Size of leaf: 302 × 196 mm.
Occasional marginal notes, extracting key words, and a few initials supplied in brown ink, in Baldachinus' hand.
Provenance: Philippus Baldachinus (sixteenth century); inscription on [a2r]: ‘Philippi baldachini coritani a die .4. feb. 1531. 4 juliis (papal coin, 10 g. = 1 ducat) sex in totum'. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark no. 214; see Catalogue (1831); purchased at his sale for £1. 10. 0; see sale catalogue (1839), lot 645, and Books Purchased (1840), 22.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 3.49.
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