BENEDICTUS (Reguardati) de Nursia (fl. mid-15th century). De conservatione sanitatis, [Rome: Stephan Plannck, ca. 1487-88], 4° (209 x 139mm), 54 leaves, gothic type, 2-6-line initial spaces, (light spotting and marginal staining, outer 2 bifolia of first and last quire rehinged, lower blank margin of fo.2 renewed, margins of final 2 leaves renewed with loss of a few letters), vellum. [C 11918 (II); GW 3822; Goff B-318; IGI 1466]

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BENEDICTUS (Reguardati) de Nursia (fl. mid-15th century). De conservatione sanitatis, [Rome: Stephan Plannck, ca. 1487-88], 4° (209 x 139mm), 54 leaves, gothic type, 2-6-line initial spaces, (light spotting and marginal staining, outer 2 bifolia of first and last quire rehinged, lower blank margin of fo.2 renewed, margins of final 2 leaves renewed with loss of a few letters), vellum. [C 11918 (II); GW 3822; Goff B-318; IGI 1466]

All editions of Benedetto's medical treatise are uncommon on the market. He was papal physician and, afterwards, physician to Francesco Sforza. Not in the British Library.

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