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KETHAM, Johannes de (fl. 1455-1470). Fasciculus medicine. Venice: Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1513.
2o (316 x 209 mm). 9 full-page woodcuts and woodcut table on A2r. (Some minor wear to sheet edges, pale marginal stain at end.) Early 20th-century black morocco, by Zaehnsdorf (a few minor scuffs); slipcase.
First published in 1491, this is a revised edition of Ketham's great compilation of texts on surgery, plague, gynaecology, diagnostics and Mundinus' anatomy. The large plates illustrate: a1r a lecturer; a1v a Uroscopist; a3v a bloodletting manikin; a6v a zodiacal manikin; b1r a woman sitting partly dissected; b5r a figure of a man noting all diseases; c2r a figure showing circulation; c4v a figure of a man in bed infected with plague attended by nurses and doctors; d2v a lecture demonstrating dissection.
"Johannes de Ketham" has been identified as the 15th-century Viennese physician and professor of medicine Johann von Kircheim, who probably compiled and edited the texts for his lectures. The 1491 first edition contained the earliest anatomical illustrations. "All the different editions of this work are of great importance because of the woodcuts they contain. The latter are in the peculiar manner of upper Italy, and especially that of Mantegna, but are of different values and are not the same in the various editions" (Choulant-Frank). All editions of the Fasciculus medicine are SCARCE: the last copy of the 1513 edition to appear at auction according to American Book Prices Current was sold at Christie's King Street, 1988. Choulant-Frank, 115-122; Sander, 3751; Waller, 5175; Wellcome, 3545. Cf. Garrison-Morton, 363 and 363.1 and. Sander 3754.
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First published in 1491, this is a revised edition of Ketham's great compilation of texts on surgery, plague, gynaecology, diagnostics and Mundinus' anatomy. The large plates illustrate: a1r a lecturer; a1v a Uroscopist; a3v a bloodletting manikin; a6v a zodiacal manikin; b1r a woman sitting partly dissected; b5r a figure of a man noting all diseases; c2r a figure showing circulation; c4v a figure of a man in bed infected with plague attended by nurses and doctors; d2v a lecture demonstrating dissection.
"Johannes de Ketham" has been identified as the 15th-century Viennese physician and professor of medicine Johann von Kircheim, who probably compiled and edited the texts for his lectures. The 1491 first edition contained the earliest anatomical illustrations. "All the different editions of this work are of great importance because of the woodcuts they contain. The latter are in the peculiar manner of upper Italy, and especially that of Mantegna, but are of different values and are not the same in the various editions" (Choulant-Frank). All editions of the Fasciculus medicine are SCARCE: the last copy of the 1513 edition to appear at auction according to American Book Prices Current was sold at Christie's King Street, 1988. Choulant-Frank, 115-122; Sander, 3751; Waller, 5175; Wellcome, 3545. Cf. Garrison-Morton, 363 and 363.1 and. Sander 3754.