Falcutius, Nicolaus: Sermones medicinales septem.

Edited by Caesar de Landulfis and Johannes Antonius de Bassinis.

Pavia: Damianus de Confaloneriis, de Binasco, for Johannes Antonius de Bassinis, 1481-24 Dec 1484.
Fol.  Part I: a-f¹⁰ g-h⁸ i⁶.  [82] leaves (a1, i6 blank).  Part II: a-y¹⁰ z⁶ ⁊¹⁰ ↄ¹⁰ ꝝ⁸ A-F¹⁰ G⁸ H¹⁰ I-K⁶.  [344] leaves (a1, K5-6 blank).  Part III: a⁸ b-d¹⁰ e⁸ f-g¹⁰ h- k⁸ l⁶ m⁸ n-o¹⁰ p⁸ q-t¹⁰ u⁸ x¹⁰ y¹² z¹⁰ ⁊¹⁰ ↄ¹⁰ ꝝ¹⁰ A¹² B-F¹⁰ G⁶⁺².  [322] leaves (a1 and the last leaf blank).  Part IV: a-c¹⁰ d-e⁸ f⁶ g¹⁰ h⁸ i-k¹⁰ l-m⁸ n⁶ A-B¹⁰ C⁴ D-E¹⁰ F-G⁶.  [168] leaves (a1 blank).  Part V: a-c¹⁰ d⁸ e-g⁶ h-i⁸ k¹⁰ l⁶ m⁸ n-q¹⁰ r⁶ s-x¹⁰ y⁸ z⁶ A-F¹⁰ G⁶ H-I¹⁰ K⁸ L⁴.  [294] leaves.  Part VI: a-g¹⁰ h-i⁸.  [86] leaves (a1 blank).  Part VII: a-d¹⁰ e⁸ f-g¹⁰ h⁸ i-z¹⁰ ⁊¹⁰ ↄ¹⁰ ꝝ¹⁰ A-H¹⁰ I-K⁸ L⁶.  [358] leaves (a1 blank).
Parts dated:  I) 24 Dec. 1484;  II) 1481;  III-VI) [undated];  VII) 18 Nov. 1484.
Contents:  I) De conservatione sanitatis;  II) De febribus;  III) De membris capitis;  IV) De membris spiritualibus;  V) De membris naturalibus;  VI) De membris generationis;  VII) De membris exterioribus.
ISTC if00045000;  GW 9704;  Goff F45;  BMC VII 1000 (IC. 31380).

GIP number:	F2
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.1.13 (see main library entry for this item)
Provenance:	Coesfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Collis Mariae (Marienbrink), from 1479 Augustinian Nuns - see Binding. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  source unknown. University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ak.1.13”.
Binding:	Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, 15th/16th-century blind-tooled calf over bevelled wooden boards;  both covers decorated with intersecting double fillets to form a centre panel surrounded by two frames;  the centre panel is divided by double fillets into 71 lozenge and triangular-shaped compartments, each decorated with a separate stamp;  the inner frame is also decorated with separate stamps, and the outer frame is undecorated;  the numerous separate stamps include a Paschal Lamb within a circle, a ‘ihesus’ scroll and a ‘maria’ scroll, an eagle, a lion passant and a dragon stamp (each within a lozenge), a rectangular stamp of a crown flanked by the letters ‘I’ and ‘O’; several of the stamps are identical to stamps tentatively assigned in Weale-Taylor (no. 207, pl. XVI nos 7-10) to the Augustinian Convent of Coesfeld in North Rhine-Westphalia;  remains of two brass clasps (catch plates on front board);  spine undecorated and title label added in the 19th/20th century;  without pastedowns and with 19th/20th-century flyleaves inserted (original endpapers and flyleaves lost);  indistinct manuscript title on fore-edge ‘Serm[ones] medi’.  Size: 415 × 295 mm.
Leaf size:	405 x 289 mm.
Annotations:	Part VII:  occasional marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand - more numerous in quires f, C, H-L;  on L5r is a lengthy annotation on maladies of the ear in a 16th-century hand beginning “Consilium doctoris henrici zittart  ... anno 1529 ...”;  a medical recipe in the same hand on L6v;  foliated in an early hand “1”-“219” from a2-z4.
Decoration:	Part VII:  on a2r a six-line initial “S” is supplied in blue with reserved white and decorated with purple and green pen-work which extends into the inner margin;  similarly decorated initials supplied on a2v, e8v, h6r,  z4v, G9r;  other principal initials supplied throughout in alternate red and blue;  paragraph marks and capital strokes in red throughout.
Imperfections:	Wanting parts I-VI i.e. part VII only (De membris exterioribus) which lacks the blank leaf a1.