Regimen sanitatis cum expositione magistri Arnaldi de Villanova Cathellano noviter impressus
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Regimen sanitatis cum expositione magistri Arnaldi de Villanova Cathellano noviter impressus
Other titles: Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum
Classmark: BC Incunabula/REG
Additional creator(s): Arnaldus de Villanova (1311) (Other); Vitali, Bernardino dei (1494-1539) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Arnaldus; Vitali, Bernardino dei; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: per Bernardinu[m] Venetu[m] de Vitalibus; Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus
Publication city: Impressum Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): [after 1500?]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [60] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/163528
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008714649705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-p⁴.
Place of publication and printer's name from colophon, date from ISTC.
Colophon on p4r reads: Impressum Venetiis per Bernardinu[m] Venetu[m] de Vitalibus.
Date on leaf a2r given as M.ccccl.xxx, but according to the BMC V 546 the earliest certain date of any work printed by Bernardinus Venetus is 1494.
The Regimen sanitatis Salernitatum and accompanying commentary are often wrongly ascribed to Arnoldus de Villa Nova; cf. E. Wickersheimer in Comptes rendus du XIIIe Congrès international d'histoire de la médecine, 1954, pp. 226-34 (Aquilon 570)
Printed in long lines with with 40 lines of commentary surrounding the text.
No foliation or pagination.
On the title page (a1r) is a woodcut of a physician at his desk.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ir00080000.
Features
This copy is wanting leaves i2 and i3.
Bindings
Eighteenth-century binding of pale green gilt embossed paper over pasteboard. The paper is decorated with an alternating pattern of interlacing foliage in green on a gold background and birds, vases, flowers foliage and a figure in a headdress in gold on a green background. The spine is smooth. Size: 219 x 160mm. Leaf size: 213 x 153mm.
Provenance
Coloured armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired after 17 June 1929 when Sir Edward Allen Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
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