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Regimen sanitatis cum expositione magistri Arnaldi de Villanova Cathellano noviter impressus

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Type of record: Book

Title: Regimen sanitatis cum expositione magistri Arnaldi de Villanova Cathellano noviter impressus

Other titles: Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum

Level: Item

Classmark: Cookery D/REG

Additional creator(s): Arnaldus de Villanova (1311) (Other); Vitali, Bernardino dei (1494-1539) (Printer); Leigh, Blanche Legat (Former owner)

Related people: Arnaldus; Vitali, Bernardino dei; Leigh, Blanche Legat

Publisher: per Bernardinu[m] Venetu[m] de Vitalibus; Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus

Publication city: Impressum Venetiis [Venice]

Date(s): [after 1500?]

Language: Latin

Size and medium: [60] leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/118518

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008714579705181

Collection group(s): Cookery Collection | Incunabula

Description

Signatures: a-p⁴.


Place of publication and printer's name from colophon, date from ISTC.


Colophon on p4r reads: Impressum Venetiis per Bernardinu[m] Venetu[m] de Vitalibus.


Date on leaf a2r given as M.ccccl.xxx, but according to the BMC V 546 the earliest certain date of any work printed by Bernardinus Venetus is 1494.


The Regimen sanitatis Salernitatum and accompanying commentary are often wrongly ascribed to Arnoldus de Villa Nova; cf. E. Wickersheimer in Comptes rendus du XIIIe Congrès international d'histoire de la médecine, 1954, pp. 226-34 (Aquilon 570)


Printed in long lines with with 40 lines of commentary surrounding the text.


No foliation or pagination.


On the title page (a1r) is a woodcut of a physician at his desk.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ir00080000.

Features

Very occasional marginal annotations, sixteenth-century, in black ink manuscript, cropped.


Some leaf edges have been mended.


Bindings


Eighteenth-century binding of pale pink gilt embossed paper over pasteboard. The paper is decorated with pattern of stylised foliage and flowers in gold on the pink background. The spine is smooth. There is a slight loss to the head of the spine Size: 220 x 152mm. Leaf size: 208 x 150mm.

Provenance

Book label of The University Library Leeds on the front pastedown: From the library of Mrs Blanche Legat Leigh 1945.

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