Bernardus de Gordonio: Practica, seu Lilium medicinae. De ingeniis curandorum morborum. De regimine acutarum aegritudinum. De prognosticis.

Venice:  Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, for Benedictus Fontana, 16 Jan. 1496/97.
4to. π⁴ a-z⁸ ⁊⁸ ↄ⁸ ꝝ⁸ A-H⁸. [5], 2-271, [1] leaves (H8 blank).
Woodcut initials, woodcut device of Benedictus Fontana on title-page.

ISTC ib00450000;  GW 4083;  Goff B450;  BMC V 349 (IA. 21109);  CIBN B-316;  BSB-Ink B-335. 

Two copies listed in Glasgow Incunabula Project; copy 1 held by University of Glasgow Library and copy 2 held by Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons

Copy 1

GIP number:	B31
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.42 (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 and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “W.9.17”.
Binding:	18th-century, grey paper-covered boards (varnished);  paper title label on spine.   Size:  200 x 151 mm.
Leaf size:	195 x 142 mm.
Annotations:	Occasional early marginal annotations, underlining and nota marks;  number “54” in ink on a1r, above which - in a different hand - a reference to the colophon;  number “1072” on rear free endpaper;  a partially scored through code on rear pastedown.
Decoration:	None.
Imperfections:	Wanting the preliminary unsigned quire (the Tabula) and the blank leaf H8.

 Copy 2

Shelf-mark:	RCPSG:  Bookstore BER
Provenance:	Samuel & Benjamin Nock, booksellers, London (mid 19th century):  booksellers’ ticket on verso of front free endpaper “S. & B. Nock, Medical Booksellers, 16, Bloomsbury Street, London”. Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Glasgow:  armorial bookplate on front pastedown “Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow” bearing superseded shelfmarks in ink “48 C 19” (scored through) and “90 g.11”;  possibly purchased by the College in 1869/1870 since the Librarian’s annual reports in the Faculty minutes of 1869 and 1870 both make special mention of purchases of “works of the older medical authors”;  source unknown;  first appears in Alexander Duncan’s Alphabetical catalogue of the library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (Glasgow: 1885).
Binding:	19th-century blind-tooled brown calf;  marbled endpapers;  red-edged leaves.   Size:  212 x 155 mm.
Leaf size:	206 x 145 mm.
Annotations:	Brief (slightly cropped) marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand in quires a-c.
Decoration:	None.
Imperfections:	Wanting the blank leaf H8;  minor paper repairs to title-page π1r.