Accession number
PML 18737-38
Creator
Ferrari de Gradi, Giovanni Matteo, -1472.
Object title
Pars p[ri]ma come[n]tarij texual[is] in nonu[m] Alma[n]soris cu[m] ampliacio[n]ib[us] et addicionibus materierum / per magistru[m] Ioannem Matheu[m] ex Ferrarijs de Gradi Mediolane[n]sem.
Published
[Milan] : [Philippus de Lavagnia], [between 29 October and 30 December 1472]
Description
[512] leaves ; 40.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Notes
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
On the date, etc. see A.C. Klebs, The Practica of Gianmatteo Ferrari da Gradi, editio princeps, in Essays on the History of Medicine presented to Prof. Karl Sudhoff (Oxford, 1924).
Printed in Lavagnia's type 2:113G.
Collation, part I: [1-9¹⁰ 10⁸(7+1: ".s. mediens"); 11-17¹⁰ 18⁸(1+1: "cephalica"); 19-24¹⁰ 25⁶]: 244 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank; part II: [26-37¹⁰ 38¹² 39-51¹⁰ 52⁶]: 268 leaves, leaves [26]/1 and [52]/6 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Part II often mistaken for part I.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 27 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
PML Checklist has a cross reference for the press of Johannes de Sidriano at Pavia (after ChL 1293) for ChL1054.
Imprint from ISTC.
On the date, etc. see A.C. Klebs, The Practica of Gianmatteo Ferrari da Gradi, editio princeps, in Essays on the History of Medicine presented to Prof. Karl Sudhoff (Oxford, 1924).
Printed in Lavagnia's type 2:113G.
Collation, part I: [1-9¹⁰ 10⁸(7+1: ".s. mediens"); 11-17¹⁰ 18⁸(1+1: "cephalica"); 19-24¹⁰ 25⁶]: 244 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank; part II: [26-37¹⁰ 38¹² 39-51¹⁰ 52⁶]: 268 leaves, leaves [26]/1 and [52]/6 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Part II often mistaken for part I.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 27 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
PML Checklist has a cross reference for the press of Johannes de Sidriano at Pavia (after ChL 1293) for ChL1054.
Binding
18th-century Italian stiff vellum over paper boards (40.5 x 29 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves, with printed waste visible as spine reinforcement (vol. I only); decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant title
Pars prima commentarii textualis in nonum Almansoris cum ampliacionibus et addicionibus materierum per magistrum Ioannem Mathewum ex Ferrariis de Gradi Mediolanensem
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout text; contemporary manuscript foliation.
Provenance
Unidentified inscription, inked out (leaves [1]/2r [26]/2r); Donato Ferdinando Antonio Silva (1690-1779), of Milan, armorial stamps: "Comes Donatus Silva," ca. 1715 (leaves [1]/2r and [26]/1v) and shelfmarks: "Gradibus LB XV 257 299" (vol. II, front pastedown) and "E II" (leaf [26]/2r); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from (Jacques?) Rosenthal, Dec. 1908.
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