Sales catalogue 520: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/76
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 520: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Manuscripts and Books Medicine, Alchemy, Astrology and Natural | Sciences (Arranged in Chronological Order). 1373 A.D. [zr] PAULUS DE VENETIIS. Sumule naturalium. Latin Manuscript on Pharmacopoeia and natural philosophy, written in black semi-Gothic script with red capitals and periods; double columns; on thick paper, with decorative border in red and black, large initial letter P, and at foot of title-page, a circle containing a device of the Sacred Heart. Folio. Interesting black morocco binding blind stamped in a mediaeval design of conventional roses on sides. iN e 1 2°73. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE NO. I.) £125 ‘The above work contains interesting sections on :— 1. Astrology. 2. Grains and the mixing of ointments. 3. The influence of the stars on the organic moisture of the human body. 4, Receipt for special wine to be drunk during Lent. It is interesting to note that this work was first published at Ratisbon in 1476 (Hain No. 12516), over a hundred years after the manuscript had been penned according to the Colophon by Fr. Petrus de Sto. Amore (presumably a fellow Augustinian of Paul of Venice). That the philosophy which absorbed the attention of Aristotle was congenial to Paul, is shown by the fact that this manuscript, which comprises astrology and discourses on the more philosophical aspect of physics, was written some years before his commen- taries on Aristotle earned for him the contemporary sobriquet of ‘‘ the most brilliant prince of philosophers.’’