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KETHAM, Johannes de (fl. 1455-70). Fasciculus medicinae. - PETRUS DE TUSSIGNANO (fl. 1400). Consilium pro peste evitande. - MUNDINUS. Anatomia. - RHASIS. De aegritudinibus puerorum. Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 28 March 1500.
Super-chancery 2° (298 x 214mm). Collation: a-d6 f 4 (a1r woodcut of Petrus de Montagnana, a1v woodcut of Petrus with students, a2r woodcut diagram of the 4 temperaments, urine samples, a2v Fasciculus medicinae, c5v Petrus de Tussignano, d4r Mundinus, f3v Rhasis, f4v colophon). 34 leaves. 64 lines, double column. Types: 35:74G., 26:110R, 19/24:64G, 34:58G, 57G (diagrams). 10 woodcut scenes and diagrams vividly COLOURED BY AN EARLY HAND, woodcut ornamental initials from several sets, also hand-coloured, ruled in red. (Small wormhole in text block with loss of some letters, small stain at extreme fore-edge, first quire rehinged, tiny tears at edges repaired, light crease in first 3 leaves.) Modern russet morocco, narrow blindstamped border, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, linen slipcase.
Fourth edition, the first to include the Rhasis De aegritudinibus puerorum. The Fasciculus medicinae was "the first printed medical book to be illustrated with a series of realistic figures." Of the 10 woodcuts in the present edition, the first eight appeared in the 1493 edition, one depicting the sickroom of a man with the plague (c4) is a close copy of one also from the 1493 edition, and another, the dissection cut, is an almost identical copy from the 1495 edition. They are the work "of an artist of the first rank" (PMM36), and have been attributed to the school of Gentile Bellini.
The collection of medical tracts which circulated as the Fasciculus Medicinae was attributed since the first edition in 1491 to Johannes de Ketham. He has now been convincingly identified as Hans von Kircheim, professor of medicine at Vienna. He was not the author, however, since the collection was already in circulation by 1400, but he used the collection with his students. BMC V, 351 (IB. 21150); H *9776; IGI 5299; Klebs 573.3; Essling 588; Sander 3746; Goff K-15.
Super-chancery 2° (298 x 214mm). Collation: a-d6 f 4 (a1r woodcut of Petrus de Montagnana, a1v woodcut of Petrus with students, a2r woodcut diagram of the 4 temperaments, urine samples, a2v Fasciculus medicinae, c5v Petrus de Tussignano, d4r Mundinus, f3v Rhasis, f4v colophon). 34 leaves. 64 lines, double column. Types: 35:74G., 26:110R, 19/24:64G, 34:58G, 57G (diagrams). 10 woodcut scenes and diagrams vividly COLOURED BY AN EARLY HAND, woodcut ornamental initials from several sets, also hand-coloured, ruled in red. (Small wormhole in text block with loss of some letters, small stain at extreme fore-edge, first quire rehinged, tiny tears at edges repaired, light crease in first 3 leaves.) Modern russet morocco, narrow blindstamped border, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, linen slipcase.
Fourth edition, the first to include the Rhasis De aegritudinibus puerorum. The Fasciculus medicinae was "the first printed medical book to be illustrated with a series of realistic figures." Of the 10 woodcuts in the present edition, the first eight appeared in the 1493 edition, one depicting the sickroom of a man with the plague (c4) is a close copy of one also from the 1493 edition, and another, the dissection cut, is an almost identical copy from the 1495 edition. They are the work "of an artist of the first rank" (PMM36), and have been attributed to the school of Gentile Bellini.
The collection of medical tracts which circulated as the Fasciculus Medicinae was attributed since the first edition in 1491 to Johannes de Ketham. He has now been convincingly identified as Hans von Kircheim, professor of medicine at Vienna. He was not the author, however, since the collection was already in circulation by 1400, but he used the collection with his students. BMC V, 351 (IB. 21150); H *9776; IGI 5299; Klebs 573.3; Essling 588; Sander 3746; Goff K-15.