¶ Aldobrandino, da Siena — Le régime du corps [MS]

Aldobrandino, da Siena. Le régime du corps.

Illuminated manuscript. France, perhaps Rouen, c. 1440-1450. 129 leaves.

Provenance: Thwayte (16th century). — Earl of Westmorland. — Westmorland (anonymous) sale, Sotheby, 13–15 July 1887, lot 698. — Quaritch catalogue 103, April 1890 (£100). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (MS M.165).

References: Additional bibliography (Morgan Library). — Curatorial description (Morgan Library). — de Ricci, 2:1397, no. 165. — Ellis valuation, fol. 6, no. 89 (£120). — Morgan Catalogue 4, no. 108. — Schoenberg (SDBM_MS_10069).

Images: Morgan Library.

Morgan Library

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Morgan Catalogue 4:

¶ Medicinarius (1509) and Ficino (1508)

The following titles are bound together (both illustrated, with a bibliographical note by Sydney Cockerell):

[1] Medicinarius. Das Buch der Gesuntheit. Liber de arte distillandi simplicia et composita. Strassburg: J. Grüninger, 1509.

[2] Ficino, Marcilio [Marsilius Ficinus]. Das Buch des Lebens. Strassburg: J. Grüninger, 1508.

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Provenance: Edward Hailstone. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 726 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £3 15s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB/D 1113/D).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Boorde — Fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge (1870)

Boorde, Andrew. The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Borde, of physycke doctor . . . A dyetary of helth made in Mountpyllier. London: published for the Early English Text Society, by N. T. Trübner & Co., 1870.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 738.

¶ Galen — Quarta impressio ornatissima (1515–16)

Galen. Quarta impressio ornatissima, continens omnes Galeni libros alias impressos. 3 vols. Pavia: J.P. de Burgofranco, 1515–16.

Illustrated.

Provenance: “Theodori Crumbrigngesi” (?). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 540 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £4). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / D 2510/D).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Ketham — Fasciculus medicinae (1500)

Ketham, Joannes de. Fasciculus medicinae. Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 28 March 1500.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library [deaccessioned 1981]. — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 45 (£20). — ISTC (ik00015000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 374.

Digital version: BSB.

¶ Mesue — Opera medicinalia (1478)

Mesue, Johannes. Opera medicinalia. Ed. Petrus Gulosius de Amalfia. Naples: Conradus Guldenmund, 3 January 1478.

Provenance: Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland. — Sunderland sale, July 1882 (purchased by Quaritch). — Quaritch. — Morris (purchased from Quaritch). — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL1235).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 38 (£8). — ISTC (im00511000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 459. — MS catalogue (2), no. 922 (with an X next to the title).

¶ Ruscelli — Secretes (1562)

Ruscelli, Girolamo. The secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont. Containing excellent remedies against divers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, consitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltinges. Trans. William Warde. London: printed by Ronland Hall for Nycolas England, 1562.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 55 (sold to Chadwick for £1 6s.). — Unlocated.

References: ESTC (S121372). — MS catalogue (2), no. 247 (with three X’s next to it).

Digital version: EEBO.

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