Silvaticus, MatthaeusLiber pandectarum medicinae (ed. Matthaeus Moretus).
Analysis of content:
[*1v] Moretus Brixiensis, Matthaeus: [Preface addressed to] Cardinal Franciscus de Gonzaga. Incipit: ‘[N]on te latere arbitror reuerendissime pater . . .’
[*2r] [Alphabetical table of contents.]
[*6r] ‘Registrum'.
A1r Silvaticus, Matthaeus: Liber pandectarum medicinae [dedicated to] Robertus, ‘King of Sicily' (i.e. Robert ‘the Wise', King of Naples). Incipit: ‘[A]Achiam .i. castoreum Aagi .i. ebur . . . Aaron Graece, Arabice . . .’ See S‑204.
Imprint:
Vicenza: Hermannus Liechtenstein, [c.1478-80]. Folio.
As dated by BSB‑Ink.
Collation:
[*6] A10 B–V a–r8 s–v6. Gathering [*] numbered but not signed.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: is00513000
HC *15193;
Goff S‑513;
BMC VII 1038;
not in Pr;
BSB‑Ink S‑390; Osler 205; not in Sheppard. Microfiche: Unit 14: Medical Incunabula Part IV, MI 57.
LCN: 14125550
Copies:
S-205(1)
Copy
Gathering [*] is bound at the end.
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century blind-tooled mottled calf. Yellow-edged leaves. ‘378 | med' in black ink across the fore-edge.
Size: 288 × 210 × 60 mm.
Size of leaf: 283 × 198 mm.
Frequent marginal notes, mainly extracting key words in Latin, or translating them into English, in Shermsly's hand. On [*6v] a list of ‘famosi in medicinis doctores' subdivided by ‘Greci 7, Arabes 5, Hebrei 2, Latini 6'.
Provenance: John Shermsly (fifteenth century); name on A1r.
Oxford, Radcliffe Library; book-plate.
Transferred in 1937; stamp, with date 26 Oct. 1937 on A1v.
Former Radcliffe shelfmarks: G.161.I.4; 23 D.2.7; 79.C.16; RR.x.177.
SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I20.1.
