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Highlights from the Royal Society of Medicine
MESUE, Johannes de, the younger (ps.? MASAWAIH-al-MARDINI, fl. 10th century?)
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MESUE, Johannes de, the younger (ps.? MASAWAIH-al-MARDINI, fl. 10th century?)
[Bound with:] NICOLAUS SALERNITANUS (fl. 12th century). Antidotarium; Quid pro quo; Synonyma – ABULCASIS [Abu'l-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-Zahrawi] (ca 936-ca 1013). Liber servitoris de praeparatione medicinarum simplicium. Translated by Abraham Tortuosiensis. Edited by Simon a Cordo – ALSEIR. De mensuris; Tractatus de urinis. [Pavia: Franciscus de Sancto Petro, 1478-79].
[and:] GENTILIS FULGINAS (d. 1348). Super tertio libro Canonis Avicennae. Pavia: Damianus de Confaloneriis, de Binasco, for Pantaleo de Confluentia, [c.1480] [fragment of vol. II only].
Uncommon incunable editions of influential medical and pharmacological works, disseminating earlier Arabic sources to the European Renaissance. Seventh edition of Mesue’s Opera medicinalia and fourth edition of Nicolaus Salernitanus’s Antidotarium, with an additional 14-leaf fragment from the second edition of Gentilis Fulginas’s Super tertio libro Canonis Avicennae. ISTC lists just 4 copies of the first work and 2 copies of the second in institutional libraries, while RareBookHub records no copies of either at auction.
A large number of medical texts are attributed to an Arab author known in Western Europe as ‘Mesue the Younger,’ although it may be that many or all of them are actually products of the Latin West—influenced by Arabic science but created by Latin writers. Whatever its origins, this body of work was a major conduit of Arabic knowledge into the Latin-speaking world and formed the basis for pharmaceutical education in the early modern period, inviting commentaries from the most learned physicians. The Antidotarium of Nicolaus Salernitanus, a compilation of medicinal recipes and antidotes, was used extensively in medieval pharmacy, becoming a standard reference for apothecaries and physicians across Europe. The Liber servitoris by Abulcasis describes medical preparations from minerals, plants and animals, and ‘represents an early example of chemistry applied to the practice of medicine’ (Campbell, Arabian medicine, p.90). GW M23037, M26752, 10612; Goff M-512, N-161, G-145; ISTC im00512000 [listing 4 copies, all imperfect], in00161000 [listing 2 copies], ig00145000.
3 works in one volume, royal folio (391 x 267mm). Mesue: 165 leaves (of 166, without the opening blank but with the blanks Q8 and S12 and including the additional 6-leaf quire T [with blank T6] containing Gentilis’ De proportionibus medicinarum dated 9 February 1479, this bound between the second and third works). Text in double column, some printed guide-letters (some dampstaining, heavier at beginning, repair to upper margin of first text leaf just touching printed area, with associated closed tear into text, B7 with closed tear into text repaired in margin, small hole in text on B9, tiny wormtracks in gutter of a few leaves). Nicolaus Salernitanus: 52 leaves (with the blank G8). Text in double column, some printed guide-letters (minor marginal spots and soiling). Gentilis Fulginas: 14 leaves (of 288 in vol. II, comprising leaves H6-I8). Text in double column, printed guide-letters (some dampstaining and small marginal wormholes). 18th-century half sheep over patterned paper boards (somewhat worn with some losses, upper board detached). Provenance: some early marginal annotations – Monastery of Saints Cosmo and Damian of the discalced hermits of the order of St Augustine at Milan (inscription on first leaf dated 1729) – Royal Society of Medicine (ink stamps [Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society]).
[Bound with:] NICOLAUS SALERNITANUS (fl. 12th century). Antidotarium; Quid pro quo; Synonyma – ABULCASIS [Abu'l-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-Zahrawi] (ca 936-ca 1013). Liber servitoris de praeparatione medicinarum simplicium. Translated by Abraham Tortuosiensis. Edited by Simon a Cordo – ALSEIR. De mensuris; Tractatus de urinis. [Pavia: Franciscus de Sancto Petro, 1478-79].
[and:] GENTILIS FULGINAS (d. 1348). Super tertio libro Canonis Avicennae. Pavia: Damianus de Confaloneriis, de Binasco, for Pantaleo de Confluentia, [c.1480] [fragment of vol. II only].
Uncommon incunable editions of influential medical and pharmacological works, disseminating earlier Arabic sources to the European Renaissance. Seventh edition of Mesue’s Opera medicinalia and fourth edition of Nicolaus Salernitanus’s Antidotarium, with an additional 14-leaf fragment from the second edition of Gentilis Fulginas’s Super tertio libro Canonis Avicennae. ISTC lists just 4 copies of the first work and 2 copies of the second in institutional libraries, while RareBookHub records no copies of either at auction.
A large number of medical texts are attributed to an Arab author known in Western Europe as ‘Mesue the Younger,’ although it may be that many or all of them are actually products of the Latin West—influenced by Arabic science but created by Latin writers. Whatever its origins, this body of work was a major conduit of Arabic knowledge into the Latin-speaking world and formed the basis for pharmaceutical education in the early modern period, inviting commentaries from the most learned physicians. The Antidotarium of Nicolaus Salernitanus, a compilation of medicinal recipes and antidotes, was used extensively in medieval pharmacy, becoming a standard reference for apothecaries and physicians across Europe. The Liber servitoris by Abulcasis describes medical preparations from minerals, plants and animals, and ‘represents an early example of chemistry applied to the practice of medicine’ (Campbell, Arabian medicine, p.90). GW M23037, M26752, 10612; Goff M-512, N-161, G-145; ISTC im00512000 [listing 4 copies, all imperfect], in00161000 [listing 2 copies], ig00145000.
3 works in one volume, royal folio (391 x 267mm). Mesue: 165 leaves (of 166, without the opening blank but with the blanks Q8 and S12 and including the additional 6-leaf quire T [with blank T6] containing Gentilis’ De proportionibus medicinarum dated 9 February 1479, this bound between the second and third works). Text in double column, some printed guide-letters (some dampstaining, heavier at beginning, repair to upper margin of first text leaf just touching printed area, with associated closed tear into text, B7 with closed tear into text repaired in margin, small hole in text on B9, tiny wormtracks in gutter of a few leaves). Nicolaus Salernitanus: 52 leaves (with the blank G8). Text in double column, some printed guide-letters (minor marginal spots and soiling). Gentilis Fulginas: 14 leaves (of 288 in vol. II, comprising leaves H6-I8). Text in double column, printed guide-letters (some dampstaining and small marginal wormholes). 18th-century half sheep over patterned paper boards (somewhat worn with some losses, upper board detached). Provenance: some early marginal annotations – Monastery of Saints Cosmo and Damian of the discalced hermits of the order of St Augustine at Milan (inscription on first leaf dated 1729) – Royal Society of Medicine (ink stamps [Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society]).
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