tim00510000

Text-inc Id:

tim00510000

Bod-inc Id:

M-204

Headings:

Mesue, Johannes De medicinis laxativis; Grabadin.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] Mesue, Johannes [pseudo-]: De medicinis laxativis (Libri II). ‘Incipit liber de consolatione medicinarum simplicium solutiuarum Johannis heben Mesue.’ [Preface.] Incipit: ‘[I]n nomine Dei misericordis cuius nutu sermo recipit gratiam . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 694.
2. [a2r] [Table of contents for book I.]
3. [a2v] Mesue, Johannes [pseudo-]: De medicinis laxativis (Liber I:) Canones Universales. Incipit: ‘[D]icimus quod medicina laxatiua non est a re complexionali . . .’ Die Canones des Pseudo-Mesue: . . ., ed. Sieglinde Lieberknecht, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Pharmazie, 71 (Stuttgart, 1995), 1-28, a photographic reprint of the 1561 edition, and 199-201; see also Thorndike–Kibre 415.
4. [b9v] [Table of contents for book II.]
5. [b10r] Mesue, Johannes [pseudo-]: De medicinis laxativis (Liber II:) De simplicibus. Incipit: ‘[P]rotellauimus usque huc intentiones . . . [A]loes est de melioribus . . .’ Not in Thorndike–Kibre.
6. [e4v] Mesue, Johannes [pseudo-]: Grabadin (Liber I:) Antidotarium. ‘Incipit quod est aggregatio et antidotarium ellectuariorum et confectionum'. Incipit: ‘[S]cripsimus in duobus libris precedentibus explanationum nostrarum . . .’ Explicit: antiquius tanto melius See Thorndike–Kibre 1414; VL VI 451-3.
7. [i1r] Mesue, Johannes [pseudo-]: Grabadin (Liber II:) Practica de medicinis particularium aegritudinum. Incipit: ‘[S]anat solus langores Deus . . .’ Explicit: labore et similibus See Thorndike–Kibre 1371, 361.

Imprint:

[Milan]: Philippus de Lavagnia, 4 Aug. 1473. Folio.

Collation:

[a–g¹⁰ h⁶ i–q¹⁰].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00510000 H *11105; Goff M‑510; Pr 5842; BSB‑Ink M‑342; Osler, IM, 36; Sheppard 4801. Microfiche: Unit 11: Medical Incunabula: Part I. LCN: 14454489

Copies:

1. M-204(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [q10]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half red crushed morocco over marbled pasteboards; yellow-edged leaves. Size: 325 × 235 × 30 mm. Size of leaf: 316 × 217 mm. Marginal notes, repeating headings, in the upper right hand corner of the rectos in a contemporary Italian hand. A bibliographical note in Page's hand pasted on the front pastedown. Initials, a few with reserved white decoration, and paragraph marks are supplied in red up to gathering [i]. Text surrounded by red rules. Provenance: J. H. Page (fl. 1835); inscription on front pastedown: ‘Ex libris J. H. Page [Millesimo Quingentesimo] CCC XXXV'. Puttick & Simpson, sale (17 June 1891), lot 297; label at the head of the spine. B. Quaritch. Purchased from Quaritch for £1. 7. 6; see Library Bills, 30 Sept. 1891; Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University Gazette, 10 May 1892, 470. SHELFMARK: Auct. 3Q 4.37.