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JOHANNES DE GADDESDEN. Rosa anglica practica medicinae. [4], 173, [1] leaves. Gothic type. bound with: BERNARDUS DE GORDONIO. De urinis et de pulsibus. [24] leaves. Gothic type. Together, 2 volumes in one, both rubricated. Folio, 291x210 mm, contemporary German calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled to panel design with intersecting diagonal rules and repeated impressions of rosette and lozenge tools, brass catches, lacking clasps, recased in the 19th-century with endpapers renewed, joints cracked, cords intact; intermittent dampstaining along top edges, ink stains along fore edges at beginning and end of volume, scattered mostly minor stains elsewhere, contemporary marginalia, soiling in lower outer corner of opening leaves in first work, old inscriptions on title, repaired clean tear in blank gutter of b2 in second work; cloth folding case. (Pavia: Franciscus Girardengus and Johannes Antonius Birreta, 24 January 1492); (Ferrara: Andreas Belfortis, 4 March 1487)
first editions. The first work is the first printed medical treatise by an English author, an early 14th-century compilation dealing with fevers, various diseases and injuries, and remedies, drawing uncritically on ancient and medieval sources. "Gaddesden . . . was the first major medical scholar to have been trained wholly in England, and the only Oxford-trained medieval physician to achieve recognition on the continent" (ODNB). He is thought by some to have been the model for Chaucer's Doctour of Phisik, and both he and Bernardus de Gordonio are among the medical authorities cited in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. The second work, excerpted from the author's larger treatise De conservatione vitae humanae dating from the same period, deals with uroscopy and pulse reading as diagnostic tools. Hain-Copinger 1108, Hain-Reichling 7804; GW M13622, 4087; BMC VII, 1105, VI, 604; Goff J326, B545; ISTC ij00326000, ib00454000; Garrison-Morton 2191; Heirs of Hippocrates 104; Sarton III, 880-82, 873-76.
