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BERNARDUS DE GORDONIO (d. ca. 1320). Practica, seu Lilium medicinae. Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, for Benedictus Fontana, 16 January 1496/97.
Chancery 4o (198 x 150 mm). Collation: s4 (title and preliminaries); a-z A-H8 (a1r text, H7r colophon and register, H7v blank, H8 blank). 253 leaves (of 271, without -4, a1, a8, c2-3, c6-7, e1, e8, m1, m8, 1, 8, D1, D8). 43 lines and foliation, double column. Types: 22:130G (mixed), 27:75G. 6-line woodcut initials. A few initial spaces with printed guide letters. (Defective as noted above, the first twenty leaves dampstained.) Modern panelled calf (spine and extremities rubbed).
Provenance: W.G. Lennox (bookplate).
Fourth edition, including De ingeniis curandorum morborum, De regimine acutarum aegritudinum, and De prognosticis. Bernardus de Gordonio, variously described as French or Scottish, was the first to describe seizures of petit mal. His medical treatise gives the first description of a modern truss and the first mention of spectacles as "oculus berellinus." While relying heavily on Arabic sources, he added to them his own observations. Highly reputed in his time, he appears in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with Gilbertus Anglicus and John of Gaddesden.
H 7799*; BMC V, 349-50 (IB. 21109); CIBN B-316; Harvard/Walsh 2026-27; Klebs 177.4; GW 4083; IGI 1571; Pr 4551; Goff B-450.
Chancery 4
Provenance: W.G. Lennox (bookplate).
Fourth edition, including De ingeniis curandorum morborum, De regimine acutarum aegritudinum, and De prognosticis. Bernardus de Gordonio, variously described as French or Scottish, was the first to describe seizures of petit mal. His medical treatise gives the first description of a modern truss and the first mention of spectacles as "oculus berellinus." While relying heavily on Arabic sources, he added to them his own observations. Highly reputed in his time, he appears in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with Gilbertus Anglicus and John of Gaddesden.
H 7799*; BMC V, 349-50 (IB. 21109); CIBN B-316; Harvard/Walsh 2026-27; Klebs 177.4; GW 4083; IGI 1571; Pr 4551; Goff B-450.