Physical Description:
LXVIII leaves, [1] leaf of plate : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm
(Folio) Imprint:
[Burgos] : Por Iua[n] de Burgos enla muy noble: [y] mas leal cibdad
de Burgos, a .xv. dias del mes de Mayo año de mill [y]
quatrocientos: [y] nouenta: [y] cinco años. [15 May 1495]. Description:
Translation of Joannes de Ketham's Fasciculus medicinae into
Spanish; also includes Spanish translations of Vasco de Taranta's
De epidemia et peste and Michael Scotus' Liber Physiognomiae.
Leaves VII, XV and XXV are folded with woodcut illustrations and
text, leaves XV and XXV included in the foliation. Signatures:
a-b⁸ c⁶ d⁸(-d8) e-g⁸ h⁶ i-k⁴. Notes:
Imperfect: leaf a1 lacking and replaced in facsimile; slight
portions of 3 folded woodcuts also replaced with facsimiles.
Binding: brown Spanish morocco; binder's stamp: V. Arias. Goff,
K-18 Copinger, 2301 GW, M14195 ISTC, ik00018000 Proctor, 9596.83
Mead, H.R. Incunabula in the Huntington Library, 5189 Subjects:
Medicine -- Early works to 1800. ; Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
; Anatomy -- Early works to 1800. Provenance:
Purchased from Vollbehr, Nov. 1, 1924.
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