Practica Valesci de Tharanta que al[ia]s Philoniu[m] dicitur
Subtitle: vna cu[m] o[mn]ib[us] antidotis tam simplicib[us] [quam] co[m]positis vnicuiq[ue] egritudini a capite vsq[ue] ad pedes: appropriatis Ioha[n]nis Mesue: per alphabetum
By: a magistro Iacobo de Partibus doctore Parisie[n]si celeberrimo: elega[n]ter collectis ; et cu[m] nonnullis fl[ebot]omie canonibus cu[m] anathomia ossium adiu[n]ctis planissime cu[m] nu[m]ero ipsoru[m] sc[ilicet] .ccxlviij. absq[ue] ossibus sisaminis et osse laude sub lingua ;valde medico perutilissimis ex pluribus doctoribus eme[n]datissime excerptis
Publisher: Johann Clein
Published: 1501
Place of publication: Lyon
Language: lat
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Medieval Medicine; Medicine; Early works to 1800; Human anatomy
Other titles: Philonium
Work titles: Practica
Notes: Edited, with prefatory letter, by Hieronymus Ferrera.

Colophon (leaf CCCLXr): ... Imp[re]ssum lugd[uni]. p[er] Ioh[ann]em Cleyn alemanu[m]. Anno nostre salutis Millesimo quadringe[n]tesimop[ri]mo. decimooctauo. kal[endas]. Decembris.

Signatures: pi⁴ AA⁸ a-z⁸ A-Y⁸ (AA8 blank).

Errors in foliation: XIIII, XLIIII, LVI, CXI, CCII, CCLV misnumbered XIII, XLII, LV, CIXI, CCIII, CCXLV respectively.

Title-page is red-printed.

Woodcut printer's device (red-printed) on leaf CCCLXr.

Initial spaces, with guide-letters.

Text in double columns.

"Su[m]mula Iacobi de partibus: per alphabetu[m] super pl[ur]imis remedijs ex ipsius Mesue libris exerptis": leaves [5]r-[11]v.

Includes manuscript material; readers must complete an Application for the Examination of Manuscripts.

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), iv00009000

Hain, 15249?

Goff, V9

Baudrier, H.L. Bib. lyonnaise, XII, 273

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3838a.

Purchase; source unknown; 17 May 1924; 24278.116; Degrand fd.

Ownership signature (18th-19th cent.) on front pastedown: A.J. Blanckenheim Neé Caldenborn; 2 earlier signatures on title-page.

With contemporary MS. annotations throughout.  Bound in at front are: 1) a folded vellum leaf with annotated chart of a human skeleton on recto and, on verso, a drawing of a partly dissected man with letters indicating the preferred sites for bloodletting; and 2) 4 MS. leaves, including a key to the bloodletting chart, dated 1512.  The anatomical charts, MS. leaves, and annotations appear to be in the same hand.

Initials, paragraph marks, underlinings, and capital strokes added in red.

Bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over reverse-bevelled wooden boards; metal bosses (5 on each cover) and 2 fore-edge clasps and clasp plates now wanting; author's name written in ink at top of fore-edge, later MS title on spine; 2 leaves from a 14th-century Latin MS on vellum used as pastedowns; remains of pink-stained leather index tabs.