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REGIMEN SANITATIS, in German: Die Ordnung der Gesundheit. Ulm: Conrad Dinckmut, 5 October 1482.
Chancery 2° (258 x 189mm). Collation: [16(3+1) 2-48 510] (1/1r blank, 1/1v table of contents, 1/2v woodcut, 1/3r text, 5/9v colophon, /10 blank). 41 leaves. 32 lines. Type: 1:118G. Bearer type on 1/2r, apparently from 1/6r line 14. Full-page woodcut of two physicians examining a man, woodcut Maiblumen initial opening text, woodcut outline lombard initials. (First leaf remargined, its conjugate guarded just touching some letters, soiled, small marginal repairs, several hinges strengthened, small hole in 1/5 affecting 2 letters.) German19th-century marbled paper boards, rebacked in mottled sheep, gilt-lettered orange label on front cover, morocco slipcase (slipcase somewhat worn). Provenance: contemporary annotations in Latin and German on first blank page -- Georg Kloss, Frankfurt (bookplate) -- Fanny Perry, 1872 (pastedown inscription) -- Juan Carlos Ahumada, Buenos Aires (bookplate and round stamp) -- [sale Christie's NY, 29 October 1992, lot 72] -- H. Legel (bookplate).
VERY RARE EDITION of the most popular medical handbook of the Middle Ages. It was made rare by its very usefulness, for the work was often printed in the 15th century; within one month alone in 1482 three separate German-language editions appeared, two at Augsburg and the present Ulm edition. Fragments of leaves extracted from bindings at Stuttgart reveal Dinckmut printed yet more editions which have otherwise disappeared completely (cf. P. Amelung, 'Dinckmuts Drucke des "Regimen Santitatis"', Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1979, pp.58-71). The present Dinckmut edition is particularly rare: only 3 copies in Germany are recorded (none in the great repository, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), only one in America (NLM), and only one in England (Wellcome).
The Ordnung der Gesundheit is compiled from various sources, ancient Greek and Arabic medical works; the fourth book is dependent on Ortolff von Bayerland's Arzneibuch. It enjoyed a wide lay readership for its advice on health, diet and hygiene. For instance, it describes ailments such as colic and phlegm, advises on sleep, bathing, eating and drinking (red wine is good for old people), and includes a chapter on the disease most dreaded by its readers: the plague. The woodcut is copied from Schönsperger's 1481 edition, itself copied from one illustrating Bämler's 1475 edition of Conrad von Megenberg's Buch der Natur. H 13742; Klebs 828.8; Schullian, NLM 385; Schreiber 5061; Schramm VI, p.18; Amelung, Frühdruck I, 94; Goff
Chancery 2° (258 x 189mm). Collation: [1
VERY RARE EDITION of the most popular medical handbook of the Middle Ages. It was made rare by its very usefulness, for the work was often printed in the 15th century; within one month alone in 1482 three separate German-language editions appeared, two at Augsburg and the present Ulm edition. Fragments of leaves extracted from bindings at Stuttgart reveal Dinckmut printed yet more editions which have otherwise disappeared completely (cf. P. Amelung, 'Dinckmuts Drucke des "Regimen Santitatis"', Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1979, pp.58-71). The present Dinckmut edition is particularly rare: only 3 copies in Germany are recorded (none in the great repository, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), only one in America (NLM), and only one in England (Wellcome).
The Ordnung der Gesundheit is compiled from various sources, ancient Greek and Arabic medical works; the fourth book is dependent on Ortolff von Bayerland's Arzneibuch. It enjoyed a wide lay readership for its advice on health, diet and hygiene. For instance, it describes ailments such as colic and phlegm, advises on sleep, bathing, eating and drinking (red wine is good for old people), and includes a chapter on the disease most dreaded by its readers: the plague. The woodcut is copied from Schönsperger's 1481 edition, itself copied from one illustrating Bämler's 1475 edition of Conrad von Megenberg's Buch der Natur. H 13742; Klebs 828.8; Schullian, NLM 385; Schreiber 5061; Schramm VI, p.18; Amelung, Frühdruck I, 94; Goff
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