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MANFREDIS, Hieronymus de (d.1493)
Liber de homine, in Italian: Libro del perchè. Bologna: Ugo Rugerius and Doninus Bertochus, 1 July 1474.
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MANFREDIS, Hieronymus de (d.1493)
Liber de homine, in Italian: Libro del perchè. Bologna: Ugo Rugerius and Doninus Bertochus, 1 July 1474.
Illuminated first edition of an early work on dietetics, dealing with food, wine and nutrition, as well as sleep, exercise, disease, and anatomy. Manfredi wrote his encyclopaedic work on all matters concerning health in the vernacular, promoting and responding to the increasing medicalisation of society, broadening the scope of medical knowledge beyond the universities and practitioners. Rare on the market; RBH records only three other copies at auction, two of which were imperfect. HR 10689; GW M20557; Klebs 653.1; Osler(IM) 59; CIBN M-74; Bod-inc M-061; BMC VI 805; Simon, Bacchia 71; Vicaire 556; Goff M-191; ISTC im00191000.
Chancery folio (303 x 203mm). 105 leaves (of 112, without final 3 blank leaves as often and lacking 13⁄3-5 and 14⁄1; 13⁄6 misbound after 13⁄18). Contemporary Emilian illumination: dedication page within laurel-wreath frame with cornucopia and winged head below, opening text page with two initials, full border with Castelli arms in lower border flanked by initials C H (possibly Annibale Castelli, late 15th-century) and ‘Charo Li Chast’ in fore-margin, other major initials in gold on decorated grounds, smaller initials in red or blue with fine penwork decoration, paragraph marks alternately red or blue (stain at lower inner margin more invasive in first several leaves, other occasional stains or spotting, few short marginal tears, marginal repair in first leaf). 19th-century diced russia, gilt border, gilt edges (rebacked, rubbed at extremities). Provenance: early foliation – Hercole de Parmesani (?16th-century name) – Angelo Giuseppe de Petroni, 1699 inscription recording his acquisition of the book from the bookdealer Nasino – 19th-century bibliographical citations.
Liber de homine, in Italian: Libro del perchè. Bologna: Ugo Rugerius and Doninus Bertochus, 1 July 1474.
Illuminated first edition of an early work on dietetics, dealing with food, wine and nutrition, as well as sleep, exercise, disease, and anatomy. Manfredi wrote his encyclopaedic work on all matters concerning health in the vernacular, promoting and responding to the increasing medicalisation of society, broadening the scope of medical knowledge beyond the universities and practitioners. Rare on the market; RBH records only three other copies at auction, two of which were imperfect. HR 10689; GW M20557; Klebs 653.1; Osler(IM) 59; CIBN M-74; Bod-inc M-061; BMC VI 805; Simon, Bacchia 71; Vicaire 556; Goff M-191; ISTC im00191000.
Chancery folio (303 x 203mm). 105 leaves (of 112, without final 3 blank leaves as often and lacking 13⁄3-5 and 14⁄1; 13⁄6 misbound after 13⁄18). Contemporary Emilian illumination: dedication page within laurel-wreath frame with cornucopia and winged head below, opening text page with two initials, full border with Castelli arms in lower border flanked by initials C H (possibly Annibale Castelli, late 15th-century) and ‘Charo Li Chast’ in fore-margin, other major initials in gold on decorated grounds, smaller initials in red or blue with fine penwork decoration, paragraph marks alternately red or blue (stain at lower inner margin more invasive in first several leaves, other occasional stains or spotting, few short marginal tears, marginal repair in first leaf). 19th-century diced russia, gilt border, gilt edges (rebacked, rubbed at extremities). Provenance: early foliation – Hercole de Parmesani (?16th-century name) – Angelo Giuseppe de Petroni, 1699 inscription recording his acquisition of the book from the bookdealer Nasino – 19th-century bibliographical citations.
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