Serapion, Johannes, the Elder: Breviarium medicinae.
Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis. Add: Serapion the Younger [pseudo-]: In medicinis simplicibus. Translated by Simon Genuensis and Abraham Judaeus Tortuosiensis. Galenus [pseudo-]: De virtute centaureae; Johannes Platearius: Practica brevis; Matthaeus Platearius [pseudo-]: De simplici medicina "Circa instans".
Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 16 Dec. 1497.
Fol. a-k8 l10 m-v8 x6 y10 z8 [et]8 [con]8 [rum]10. [1], 2-211, [1] leaves, the last blank.
Woodcut initials; woodcut printer’s device.
ISTC is00466000; GW M41687; Goff S466; BMC V 448 (IB. 22971); CIBN S-225; BSB-Ink S-298.
| GIP number: | S29 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian W.2.11 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Leaf “203” misbound between leaf “211” and the final blank leaf. |
| Bound with: | The first of two incunabula bound together. Bound with: Montagnana, Bartholomaeus, Consilia medica. Venice: Simon de Luere, for Andreas Torresanus, de Asula, 20 Aug. 1499. |
| Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ab.2.6”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century mottled calf; spine covering lost; sprinkled brown and red-edged leaves. Size: 324 x 223 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 315 x 215 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand (all heavily washed-out) in the section “De simplicibus”; occasional marginal annotations elsewhere; 18th-century code “m/m” in ink on front pastedown together with the number “16” and the number “29” (the latter lightly scored through) plus two other deleted numbers (both illegible); number “184” in ink in an 18th-century hand on rear pastedown. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
