Bernardus de Gordonio: Practica, seu Lilium medicinae.
Add: De ingeniis curandorum morborum. De regimine acutarum aegritudinum. De prognosticis.
Ferrara: Andreas Belfortis, Gallus, 18 May 1486.
Fol. a-s8 t6 u8 x-z6 ⁊6 ↄ4. [186] leaves (a1 blank).
ISTC ib00448000; GW 4081; Goff B448; BMC VI 604 (IB. 25703); BSB-Ink B-334.
| GIP number: | B30 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Dk.2.8 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | Second of five works bound together; bound with: (1) Averroes, Colliget. Ferrara: Laurentius de Rubeis, de Valentia, et socii, 5 Oct. 1482 (A130); (3) Gentilis Fulginas, Consilium contra pestilentiam. [Padua: Laurentius Canozius, de Lendenaria, ca. 1475] (G20); (4) Mundinus, Anatomia. Bologna: Johannes de Nördlingen and Henricus de Harlem, 20 Jan. 1482 (M57); (5) Arcolani, Giovanni, Practica. Venice: Bernardus Vercellensis for Andrea Torresano, 1504. |
| Provenance: | Bernhard Rottendorff, M.D. (fl. 1625), possible owner: inscription on a1r (title-page) of fifth item in volume “Sum Bernh: Rottendorff Med: D. M.DC.XXV”. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770), German-Dutch anatomist: sale (1771), lot 56. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased at the Albinus sale; see Hunter's marked-up copy of the sale catalogue. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “X.2.4”. |
| Binding: | 17th-century parchment over pasteboards; fore-edge cover extensions; five spine titles written in ink at head of spine; red-edged leaves. Size: 304 x 210 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 294 x 202 mm. |
| Annotations: | Copious marginal annotations in several 15th/16th-century hands, including one which also annotated the first, third and fourth items in the volume; frequent underlining, nota marks and manicules. |
| Decoration: | Four-line initial “E” on a2v supplied in pen-and-ink. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf a1. |
