Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum.
Commentary by [Pseudo-] Arnoldus de Villa Nova. Corrections by Doctores Montispessulani regentes, 1480.
Venice: Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus, [ca. 1505]
4to. A-T4 V6. [82] leaves.
ISTC ir00081600; GW M37397; Goff R77; Pell 1289; BMC(It) p.598; CIBN II p. 495; BSB-Ink R-50Dated [1505?] by BMC(It.); Pell and Goff date [1500].
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).
GIP number: | R3 |
Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.3.3 (see main library entry for this item) |
Provenance: | Antoine Benjamin Morin d’Hérouville, Danish Consul General at Naples from 1766 to 1771: lot 545 (dated “1480”) at the Morin d’Hérouville sale, London: Leigh & Sotheby, 9 Mar. 1780. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Morin d’Hérouville sale for £0.10.6 according to the annotated BL copy of the Morin d’Hérouville sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 13(3). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ar.8.12”. |
Binding: | Italy, 18th-century parchment; gold-tooled spine with date 148[-]; red-edged leaves; green silk bookmark. Size: 218 x 158 mm. |
Leaf size: | 212 x 152 mm. |
Annotations: | Frequent marginal references to Avicenna in a 16th-century hand; occasional marginal references to Galen and other medical writers; occasional marginal annotations extracting keywords; frequent underlining and occasional manicules; number “26” (written twice) on V6v. |
Decoration: | None. |
Imperfections: | None. |