[MEDICINA] - Collezione di importanti incunaboli e trattati di medicina che comprendono: DE VILLANOVA, Arnaldo (1240-1312) - Breviarium practicae medicinae. Venice: Otinus de Luna, Papiensis, 21 ottobre, 1497. [Bound with:] BAVIERA, Baverio (c. 1405-1480) - Consilia medica. Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, per i figli dell’autore, 5 novembre 1489. [And:] PORCASTRIS, Sigismundus de (1384-1473) - De restauratione humidi. Venezia: Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, Bononiensis, 25 ottobre 1490. [And:] CORDO, Simone (m. c.1300) - Opusculum cui nomen clauis sanationis simplicia medicinalia Latina greca e arabica. Venezia: Gregorio de Gregoris, 1514. [And:] BENZI, Ugo (1360-1439) - Preclara prestantissimi viri totoque orbe terrarum. Venezia: Giorgio Arrivabene e stampato dagli eredi di Ottaviano Scoto, 1515. Authentic and fascinating collection of important incunables and medicine treatise preserved in its original early 16th-century binding with contemporary annotations. 5 works in one volume, folio (299 x 210mm). With blanks, woodcut initials and printer's devices to some works. At the end of the second work a bifolium with a text by Lodovico Ricchieri with in between the 6 leaves of Porcastris (in general some light soiling and waterstains, one just visible at outer edge, few small tiny wormholes) [number of copies held in Italian libraries recorded in ISTC and SBN: Villanova 6, Baviera 17, Porcastris 6, Cordo 7 e Benzi 12]. Early 16th-century vellum, manuscript title in red on spine (spine with loss, some staining, lacking ties). Provenance: At least three different hands are recognizable in the book and all are near contemporary to the printing of the various text. Some are written in the margins of the texts while others are more extensive and located between Porcastris (1490) and Cordo (1514). Among these a note (then copied a second time) is dated: "Ferrara 1507" and it would appear to be a letter whose recipient is Bartolomeo Crotti (a poet from Reggio). On Cordo's frontispiece an onwership note by Antonio Pictor (?), doctor of medicine in Reggio, states he paid 50 "soldi" for the book for his sons. The note is dated 2 march 1517, just after the publication of the work. HC 1802*-2712; Klebs 103.4-163.1-791.2; BMC VI 824; BSB-Ink A-742, B-242; GW 2529-3739-M35052; Goff A1074-B283-P936. The lot is accompanied by a export license.


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