Serapion, Johannes, the Elder: Breviarium medicinae.
Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis.
Venice: Reynaldus de Novimagio, 1 Aug. 1479.
Fol. a-b8 c6 d-h8 hh8 i8 k-n6.8 o-p6 q-t8. [150] leaves (the first blank).
ISTC is00465000; Goff S465; BMC V 255 (IA. 20650); Bod-inc S-179.
| Shelf-mark: | RCPSG: Bookstore IBN(2) |
| Bound with: | Bound as the second item (and including a general colophon for both works) with: Serapion, Johannes, the Younger [pseudo-]. Liber Serapionis aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus. Venice: Reynaldus de Novimagio, 8 June 1479. |
| Provenance: | Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Glasgow: armorial bookplate on front pastedown “Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow” bearing superseded shelfmark in ink “49 i 16” and partially overlaid with a later armorial bookplate of the College; possibly purchased by the College in 1869/1870 since the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: | 18th-century blind-tooled calf; covers decorated with a triple fillet to form two concentric rectangles, the inner rectangle decorated with a floral roll along its inner edges and with a floral ornament at each outer corner; sprinkled red-edged leaves; rebacked (20th century); original title label put back, original pastedowns retained but given new free endpapers; one original flyleaf at rear with watermark “H L”. Size: 303 x 210. |
| Leaf size: | 293 x 203 mm. |
| Annotations: | Fairly frequent marginal annotations in a humanist hand (some slightly cropped); frequent pointing hands in gathering o; early number “litt. 230” on t8v; set of figures (monetary?) in an 18th-century hand on t8r; 18th-century(?) code “Cl dm” in ink on front pastedown, together with numbers in pencil “18”, “42”, “2”; 19th-century code “s/f”(?) in pencil on rear pastedown. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in alternate blue and red throughout; occasional paragraph marks in red; small pen-and-ink marginal drawings of flowers on o1v and o2r, and of a dog’s head on p1v. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
