Cornelii Celsi de medicina liber incipit.
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius.
Fonte, Bartolommeo,1445-1513.
Abbazia di Santa Giustina (Padua, Italy),former owner.StEdNL
Abbazia di San Pietro in Perugia,former owner.StEdNL
Florentiae : A Nicolao impressus,
anno salutis M CCCC L XXV III [1478]
Signatures: pi⁶ a⁴ b-i⁶ l-z⁶ & ⁶ 2a-g⁶ 2h⁴ A⁸.
With a final blank leaf.
Title from incipit at head of pi2r (leaf [2r]).
Imprint details from colophon on 2h4v.
Edited by Bartholommeo Fonte -- see prefatory letter.
"The first edition. The editor, in his letter to Saxettus, after eulogizing the labours of printers, remarks: Ab his ego: ut multorum utilitati consulerem: Cornelii Celsi ... libros imprimendos curaui."--BM 15th cent.
Includes table of contents: A1r-A7v.
Initial spaces with guide letters.
With extensive marginal annotations in early hand.
ISTC
Goff
BM 15th cent.,
Bodleian 15th cent.,
Hargreaves, G. D. A. Catalogue of medical incunabula in Edinburgh libraries,
GW
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Ink inscription at foot of recto of leaf pi2: Iste liber est Congregatio[n]is sancti Justine de padua deputatus ad usus monacho[rum] s[an]cti petri de p[er]usio. Acquired by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
19th-century leather with double fillet blind stamped border and gilt stamped Bibliotheca Advocatorum on front and back boards, spine with five raised bands forming six gilt tooled compartments, gilt rolled board edges, yellow edges and marbled pastedowns.
Medicine
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Materia medica
Diet therapy
Italy Florence.