Arnoldus de Villa Nova: De arte cognoscendi venena.
Valascus de Tarenta: De epidemia et peste. Petrus de Abano: De venenis eorumque remediis. Matthaeus Silvaticus: De lapide begaar ex pandectis.
Mantua: [Johannes Vurster and Johannes Baumeister], 1473.
4to. [1-28 310 4-58]. [42] leaves, leaf 17 blank.
ISTC ia01065900; GW 2522; Goff A1067; BMC VII 929 (IA. 30623); Bod-inc A-433; CIBN A-569; BSB-Ink A-735.
| GIP number: | A101 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.3.22 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ar.6.7”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century speckled calf, decorated with a blind-roll border within double gold fillets; rebacked in plain calf with black leather title label. Size: 242 x 172 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 235 x 168 mm. |
| Annotations: | Leaves foliated in ink in an early hand: “1-10”, “12-25”; traces of early manuscript signatures; early marginal annotations on 4/1r (f.27r) and 5/4v (f.38v); pointing hand on 3/10v (f.26v). |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting gatherings 1 and 2 (which contain the 'De arte cognoscendi venena' of Arnoldus de Villa Nova and the 'De epidemia et peste' of Valascus de Tarenta), 4/2 (f.28) and the blank 3/1 (f.17). |
