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Fasciculus medicine

by Joannes de Ketham

  • First published:
  • 15th century
  • Languages: Dutch, Latin
  • Content type: Primary source
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[32] leaves : 31 cm Johannes de Ketham can be convincingly identified as Hans von Kircheim of Swabia, fl. 1455-1470, professor of medicine in Vienna, who used this collection for his lectures and recommended it to his pupils. This collection of texts was in circulation by 1400. See K. Sudhoff, The Fasciculus Medicinae of Johannes de Ketham, Alemanus. Facsimile of the first, Venetian, edition of 1491 (Milan, 1924) Title from caption on leaf a2r Imprint from Goff Colophon reads: Impressum Uenetijs per Joannem [et] Gregoriu[m] de Gregorijs fratres. Anno domini. M.ccccc. die. xvij. Feb Includes Pietro da Tossignano's Consilium pro peste evitanda (leaves c5v-d2r), Mondino dei Luzzi's Anothomia (leaves d2r-f2v), and Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzī's De egritudinibus puerorum (leaves f3r-f4r) Signatures: a-d⁶ e-f⁴ Printed on Chancery-size paper in two columns; 66 lines to a full-page; area of text: x mm. With ornamental woodcut initials, printed paragraph marks, signatures and catchwords; without foliation. Printer's device at end. Rubrication not called for Includes ten full-page woodcuts: the library of Petrus de Montagnana (a1r); urinoscopic consultation (a1v); circle of urine glasses (a2r); vein man (a3v); zodiacal man (a6v); pregnant woman (b1r); wound man (b5r); disease man (c2r); scene in the chamber of a plague patient (c4v); and dissection scene (d2v) Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Army Medical Library, 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm

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1501-01-01T00:00:00Z[Venice] : [Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio]Latin—Public digitized item

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1500-01-01T00:00:00Z[Venice : Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio]Latin—Public digitized item

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1491per Johanne[m] & Gregoriu[m] fratres de ForliuioLatin—No ebook

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