Magninus Mediolanensis: Regimen sanitatis.
Louvain: Johannes de Westfalia, 1482.
4to. a-y8. [176] leaves (a1 blank).
ISTC im00051000; GW M19892; Goff M51; BMC IX 141 (IA. 49161); Bod-inc M-015; CIBN M-19.
Author also known as Mayno de Mayneriis.
| GIP number: | M5 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Ferguson An-y.36 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Wilfrid Michael Voynich (1865-1930), bookseller, London: sold book to John Ferguson. John Ferguson (1837-1916), Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow: Ferguson’s pencil note of his supplier on rear pastedown “W.M.V”; acquisition date on front pastedown “John Ferguson London 16 May 1906”. University of Glasgow: Ferguson collection purchase, 1921. |
| Binding: | 18th-century(?) paper boards; manuscript spine title; gauffered edges. Size: 211 x 150 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 202 x 143 mm. |
| Annotations: | Title “Regime[n] sanitatis nouu[m]” on a1r in an early hand; occasional early marginal annotations, underlining and manicules; on y8r a date and possible price “1565 29 Agosto [...] 20”; notes on edition and author in Italian in a 19th-century hand on front free endpaper; pencil number “a1242” on front pastedown; pencil price code on rear pastedown “ue/-”. |
| Decoration: | Four-line initial “I” on a2r supplied in red on a square ground of brown pen-work decoration; other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red or blue (guide-letters in brown ink often visible); capital strokes supplied in red in the table of contents (a2v-a3v). |
| Imperfections: | None. |
