GERARDUS DE SOLO (d. ca. 1360). In hoc volumine continentur. Practica Geraldi de solo super nono Almansoris. Introductorium iuuenum. Tractatus de gradibus. Libellus de febribus eiusdem. Lyons: Franois Fradin, 25 May 1504.

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GERARDUS DE SOLO (d. ca. 1360). In hoc volumine continentur. Practica Geraldi de solo super nono Almansoris. Introductorium iuuenum. Tractatus de gradibus. Libellus de febribus eiusdem. Lyons: Franois Fradin, 25 May 1504.

4o (119 x 140 mm). Collation: aa-cc8; a-r8 s6 (aa1r title, aa1v blank, aa2r-cc3r Introductorium iuuenum, cc3r register, cc3v blank, cc4r-cc7v Tractatus de febribus, cc8 blank; a1r title Almansoris liber nonus cum expositione Geraldi de Solo ..., a1v blank, a2r-s4v text, s4v colophon, s5 table, s6 blank. [24], 140, [1] leaves (of 166, without the final blank). Gothic type. Initial spaces with printed guide letters. Rubricated with red and blue Lombard initials, paragraph signs, capital strokes and underlines. (Three tiny wormholes, through ca. 4, ca. 60 and ca. 15 leaves, touching one or two letters on each page, lower blank margin cut away from f. 113.) Sixteenth-century German blind-tooled pigskin spine, incorporating a Jesus roll signed with initials F.I., over bare wooden boards, two brass clasps (one small wormhole through back cover).

Provenance: copious early marginalia in red and black ink; early foliation 45-209; large oval bookplate removed from back pastedown; Librairie Alain Brieux (inventory label dated 1982 inside front cover).
The Liber Almansoris of the Persian physician Rhazes was translated into Latin in the twelfth century. Its ninth book, on pathology, was immediately used as a therapeutic guide and maintained its popularity as a source of therapeutic knowledge until long after the Renaissance (F.H. Garrison, Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed. 1929, p. 129). It was the subject of numerous commentaries which survive both in manuscript and in printed editions of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This little-known commentary by Gerardus de Solo, a physician of Montpellier, and the extensive annotations in the present edition can be expected to shed light on the study and understanding of medicine both in the fourteenth century and in the sixteenth. The short treatise Introductorium iuuenum is Gerard's own introduction to the subject of medicine. NLM/Durling 2054; Wellcome 6015.