[Aggregator, sive De medicinis simplicibus]

Description

Signatures: [a-e¹⁰ f⁸ g-h⁶ i-k¹⁰ l⁸ m¹⁰ n⁸ o-q¹⁰ r-s⁸ t-y¹⁰ z⁶ A⁶ B-C¹⁰ D⁸ E¹⁰ F-H⁸ I¹⁰].


Imprint from ISTC.


Title from Goff.


The recto of leaf [2] begins: [F]Ructiferum medicis acturus opus: non modo rudibus tantum & iuuenibus... [etc].


Author's name from recto of leaf [2], column 2, line 52, which reads: Opus quide[m] hoc longis retro t[em]p[or]ibus inchoatu[m] [com]pletu[m] est p[er] me artiu[m] et medici[n]e doctore[m] M[a]g[ist][rum] Iacobu[m] paduanu[m] Anno d[omi]ni. M.ccc.octuagesimoquinto.


Dated by CIBN about 1475-80, from the state of the types. Goff dates about 1470, and Polain about 1480.


On the text and its sources see T. Pesenti in DBI 41 (1995) 107.


Printed in two columns with 55 lines to a full column.


Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.


The first and last leaves are blank.


Indexed in: ISTC no. id00358000.


Indexed in: Goff D358; HC 6395; Klebs 349.2; Osler(IM) 187; Pell 4435; Polain(B) 1348; IDL 1629; IGI 3570; IBP 1980; Sajó-Soltész 1205; Sallander 1702; Voull(B) 2119; Hubay(Augsburg) 724; Sack(Freiburg) 1288; Walsh 68; Sheppard 213; Pr 248; BMC I 64; BSB-Ink D-282; GW 9042.

Features

Written in seventeenth- or eighteenth-century black ink manuscript at the head of the recto of leaf [2]: Liber Aggregationis Medicinarum tam Simplicium quam compositarum.


Leaves 2-285 have been numbered 1-284 in red ink manuscript at the top centre of rectos.


Major initials supplied and decorated in red.


Capital strokes, paragraph markers and underlinings supplied in red.


Some worm damage.


Bindings


Late fifteenth-century German binding of pigskin over thick wooden boards. The upper cover is blind-tooled with a border and frame of double fillets. In a central panel are four leaf-shaped tools around a smaller lozenge-shaped ornament and between each leaf is a curved line culminating in a small fleur-de-lys. Above and below the central panel are rows of diagonal triple fillets with small flower ornaments at each junction. The lower cover is decorated with a blind-tooled border and frame of triple fillets filled with scrolls containing the name Maria. The central panel is decorated with diagonal triple fillets to form a diamond shape, and at each corner is a lozenge-shaped tool. At the top of the upper cover are two vellum lettering-pieces. Written on the upper lettering-piece in black ink manuscript are the words: Liber Agregationis. On the lower lettering-piece is a number in red ink manuscript: C 105. The spine has four raised bands. Written directly onto the first panel in black
ink manuscript are the words: Liber aggregationis. The third panel contains the number 139 in ink manuscript and there is indistinct writing in the fourth panel, possibly ending with the number 603. The book is fastened with two decorated metal clasps with blind-tooled pigskin straps with the catch on the upper cover. The clasps are chased with the words Iesu and Maria. Bound in at the beginning and end of the text are parts of two leaves of rubricated vellum manuscript, probably early eleventh-century, with fragments of four different texts, one of which is Bede's Expositio in Lucae Evangelium. There is significant worm damage to both the upper and lower boards and the spine. Size: 410 x 290mm. Leaf size: 395 x 270mm.

Provenance

An inscription on the front pastedown, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century, has been rubbed out.


Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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