Incipit liber Ioannis Mesve de complexionibvs proprietatibvs, electionibvs, operationibvs, que simplicivm medicinarvm laxativarvm.

Accession number: 
PML 459
Author: 
Ibn Māsawayh, Yūḥannā, -857 or 858.
Published: 
Neapoli impressus : per Conradum Guldenmund de Nurenberga, Anno domini .M.CCCC.LXXVIII. die tertia mensis Ianuarii [3 January 1478].
Description: 
[202] leaves ; 32.5 x 24 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Colophon, leaf [25]/9r: IOANNIS MESVE MEDICI CLARISSIMI CVM CERTA ADDITIONE PETRI APPONI MEDICI PRECLARI LIBER FELICITER FINIT PER MAGISTRVM CONRADVM GVLDENMVND DE NVRENBERGA NEAPOLI IMPRESSVS ANNO DOMINI .M.CCCC.LXXVIII. DIE TERTIA MENSIS IANVARII.
Printed in Guldenmund's type 1:115R.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-10⁸ 11⁶ 12-24⁸ 25¹⁰]: 202 leaves, leaf [B]10 blank.
Paper format: Medial folio
1 column of 41 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
With: Petrus de Abano, Additiones ad practicam.
Edited by Petrus Gulosius de Amalfia.
For contents, see Bod-inc.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.4 x 22.5 cm., trimmed.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [25]/10 (blank).

Binding: 
18th-century English gilt-tooled maroon morocco ("a collector's binding") over paper boards (32.5 x 24 cm.), sewn on 5 supports; rebacked. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; red edges.
Variant Title: 

Incipit liber Ioannis Mesue de complexionibus proprietatibus, electionibus, operationibus, que simplicium medicinarum laxativarum

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary northern Italian rubrication, alternating blue and red initials, major initials with red filigree penwork. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Charles Spencer (1674-1722), 3rd Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: KK3: 9, crossed out (front fly leaf verso), through inheritance to: John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough; Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, Puttick & Simpson, part IV, 6 Nov. 1882, lot 8434, purchased by Quaritch: Sunderland Library Blenheim Palace bookplate, abraded (front pastedown); inscription with price code: "Early Pty £4.15.0" (front fly leaf verso); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code, erased (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books