Sales catalogue 15: R Lier & Co

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/13
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 15: R Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ¥ Oat a a and 6 cut initials. Printer’s device on black ground at the end. Folio. ina Venice, Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1498. a e Pt ; Two different works bound together. Old vellum. Frs. 1,000. 40 % Hugo Senensis (died c. 1439) was perhaps the best interpreter of — ee the ancient medical writers amongst his contemporaries. He taught as Fo, ’ professor at Pavia, Piacenza, Florence, Bologna, Parma and Perugia, e enjoying a great reputation as philosopher and physician. He also taught anatomy. His consilia are of interest on account of their clinical reports. ae ~—T: ‘Hain-Copinger 9012. Proctor 5088. Brit. Mus. V, p. 450. Vouill. nS 4 Berl. 4205. Rare. One of the best and earliest commentaries to Hippocrates’ Apho- rismit. II: Hain-Copinger 9015. Proctor 5090. Brit. Mus. V, p. 450. Vouill. s Berl. 4206. Only one copy-in U. S.-A. according to Census. Rare second edition of this esteemed commentary to Galenus’ fa- 3a mous ‘‘ Ars parva ’’. a Margins of some leaves slightly foxed, but fine copies of both works a united here by a happy chance. “8 : tn 10.| HUGO SENENSIS. Expositio super aphorismos Hippo-) cratis et super commentum Galieni. Black letter. Two cols. 66-67 N Pat Ia lines. 160 leaves. Nice woodcut initials. Printer’s device on black Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1498. Frs. 625. — Hain-Copinger 9012. Proctor 5088. Brit. Mus. V, p. 450. Vouill. Ber]. 4205. One of the best and earliest commentaries to Hippocrates’ Aphorismi. Confer the preceding number. — Upper margins waterstained, some early marginal annotations. Other- _ wise fine copy. Go _11. ISIDORUS HISPALIENSIS. Etymologicarum libri XX. Black letter. Two cols. 58 lines. 135 leaves (without the blank leaf 5). With full-page woodeut (arbor consanguinitatis). Small woodcuts show the phases of the moon, Folio. Fine original binding of wooden boards covered with richly Stamped pigskin, original clasps. Venice, Petrus Loeslein, 1483. Frs. 625, — Hain-Copinger 9279. Proctor 4904. Br. M. V. p. 379. Essling 308, I, p. 281. Proctor, Printing of Greek, p. 129 (contains some curious Greek types on the second leaf). One of two books only, which Loeslein printed alone. ‘‘Tsidorus Hispaliensis, one of the most influential writers of the early portion of the Middle Ages, flourishing during the latter part of the 6th and the early part of the 7th century ’’ (Ene. Brit). a most comprehensive encyclopaedia, for a long time exercised an im- _ portant influence upon the art of healing. His principal work is of importance to medicine. The fourth book, chiefly in adherence to Caelins Aurelianus affords to be a survey of the entire range of medi- cine, the chief part being represented by the derivation of Graeco-Latin terminology. The chief actions and methods of exhibition of numerous