Lot 200
  • 200

Bernardus de Gordonio

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Practica, seu Lilium medicinae. De ingeniis curandorum morborum. De regimine acutarum aegritudinem. De prognosticis. Venice: Johannes de Gregorio de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, for Benedictus Fontana, 16 January 1496/97
  • Paper
4to (216 x 160mm.), 275 leaves (of 276, without final blank), [4] a-z8 [et]8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-H8, double column, 42-43 lines, woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, numerous manuscript annotations in different hands, old vellum-backed carta rustica, some deckle edges, first leaf slightly damaged and repaired, some light damp-staining, binding slightly soiled

Literature

Goff B450; HC 7799; BMC v 349; BSB-Ink B-335; GW 4083; Klebs 177.4

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

Bernardus de Gordonio was a professor at the University of Montpellier from 1285, and his Lilium medicinae (1305) was perhaps the most common and influential medical text-book of the time. It continued to be printed up to the seventeenth century.