Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305
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Sale 2305 - Lot 193

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(ARTICELLA.) In hoc volumine . . . continentur infrascripti codices. Liber hysagoge Joannitii [and other texts]. Full-page woodcut of Bloodletting Man on 2i3v. [280] leaves. 8vo, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, remnants of thong ties, spine darkened, recased, endpapers renewed; varying marginal soiling and dampstaining, blank lower outer corner of d2 restored. [Venice: Petrus Bergomensis de Quarengiis, 1507]
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Scarce edition of a compilation of medical texts commonly known by the collective title Articella ("little art" in colloquial Italian, alluding to Galen's Tegni or Ars parva, one of the works included) and widely used as a textbook from the 12th into the early 16th century; the first printed edition appeared circa 1476. The contents of the collection evolved over time. The present edition contains Hunayn ibn Ishaq ("Joannitius"), Isagoge ad Tegni Galeni; Theophilus Protospatharius, De urinis and De pulsibus; the Hippocratic oath; Hippocrates, Prognostica and Aphorismi; Joannes Damascenus, Aphorismi; Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Flosculi medicinales; Galen, Tegni; Avicenna, Liber canonis primus[-quartus] and Cantica; Rhazes, Liber nonus ad Almansorem; and Jacques Desparts, Summula. Choulant, Handbuch, pages 400-401; Durling 326.