Incipiunt aphorismi excellentissimi Raby Moyses secundum doctrinam Galieni medicorum principis
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Type of record: Book
Title: Incipiunt aphorismi excellentissimi Raby Moyses secundum doctrinam Galieni medicorum principis
Other titles: Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni
Classmark: BC Incunabula/MAI
Creator(s): Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
Additional creator(s): Johannes Damascenus (Other); Ibn Māsawayh, Yūhannā (857) (Other); Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204) (Other); Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīyā (865?-925?) (Other); Hippocrates (Other); Benedetti, Platone de' (1496) (Printer); Faelli, Benedetto (1523) (Publisher); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Galen; Johannes; Ibn Māsawayh, Yūhannā; Maimonides, Moses; Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīyā; Hippocrates; Benedetti, Platone de'; Faelli, Benedetto; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: impensa Benedicti Hectoris librarii: Opera uero Platonis diligentissimi impressoris Bononiensium; Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, for Benedictus Hectoris
Publication city: Bononie i[m]pressum [Bologna]
Date(s): Anno gratie.M.cccc.lxxxviiii.quarto calendas Iunii. [29 May 1489]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [158] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/58857
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007767799705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-q⁸ r⁶ A-C⁸.
Imprint from first colophon.
First colophon on leaf r5 verso reads: Bononie i[m]pressum impensa Benedicti Hectoris librarii: Opera uero Platonis diligentissimi impressoris Bononiensium. Anno gratie.M.cccc.lxxxviiii.quarto calendas Iunii.
Second colophon on C8r reads: Expliciunt amphorismi Rabi moyses et amphorismi Iohannis Damasceni et amphorismi Rasis cu[m] pronosticis ypocratis q[ua] fuerunt inuenta in suo sepulchro in capsa eburnea dilige[n]tissime Bonouie [sic] impressi : impensa Benedicti hectoris librarii : cura uero Platonis de Benedictis stampatoris acuratissimi [undated].
Contains: Moses Maimonides. Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni, including preface; Johannes Damascenus. Aphorismi; Mohammed Rhasis. De secretis in medicina. Hippocrates. Prognostica.
In two parts, the text of Maimonides printed separately from the texts of Damascenus, Rhasis and the Prognostica Hippocratis.
Printed with 36 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Leaf r6 unsigned and blank.
References: Goff M77; Klebs 644.1; BMC VI 824; Schullian 297; Hain 10524*.
Indexed in: ISTC no. im00077000.
Features
Marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- or sixteenth-century, many cropped.
The date 1489 has been added in black ink manuscript beneath the second colophon on C8r.
Wanting the blank leaf r6.
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of quarter red goatskin and red and brown marbled paper over pasteboard. The spine has four raised bands each decorated with a gold-tooled double fillet. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Raby Moses. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine is the date: 1489. The other panels are gold-tooled with a border of double fillets inside which are a central fleuron and corners of stylised foliage. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the comb pattern in black, red, yellow, green and blue. The leaf edges are marbled in the same colours and the book has a green silk ribbon register. Size: 203 x 154mm. Leaf size: 198 x 145mm.
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.
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