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LANFRANCHI, Guido, of Milan (fl. 1290-96), and others. Wundartznei, und der Chirurgen Handtwirckung. Zu allem gebrechen des gantzen Leibs. Mit was zfllen die entstehn, viel edler, bewrter Artzneien, Rath und Meisterstck. Frnemlich der vil bermpten rtzt Ioannis Charetani, Lanfranci, Laurentij Friesen &c. Frankfurt: Christian Egenolff, 1534.
4o (188 x 142 mm). Collation: A-D4. 16 leaves, unfoliated. Gothic type. Title woodcut of anatomical man, small text cut of blood-letting man on D2r, the title cut partially colored. (Soiling, a few small stains, 2 or 3 minor marginal tears.) 19th-century half vellum over pasteboard.
One of several popular editions of a surgical handbook compiled from several sources including Lanfranchi's Chirurgia and Lorenz Fries's Spiegel der Artznei, the "Johann Charetanus" cited in the title being probably a transcription of Johannes Ketham, or possibly Girolamo Cardano (whose first signed work was however not published until 1536). The present compilation and translation can most likely be traced to the great botanist and medical scholar Otto Brunfels, author of the first medical bibliography as well as the first "modern" herbal, who translated and edited numerous medical and pharmacological texts including the above by Lanfranchi and Fries (cf. DSB II:537), both of which circulated widely among German printers of this period. Christian Egenolff, active in Strassburg from 1528 to 1530 before moving his press to Frankfurt, became the first permanent printer of that town, "laying the foundation stone of the dominant position of Frankfurt in the German printing trade" (Benzing, Die Buchdrucker des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts im Deutschen Sprachgebiet, p. 113). Egenolff specialized in the publication of illustrated books, largely scientific, including a large number of cheaply printed and often pirated editions of popular medical and herbal texts, most of which survive in only very few copies. The present edition was preceded by at least one other Egenolff edition under a slightly variant title, dated 1530 (BMC) and/or 1531 (NLM/Durling), and was followed by later editions printed by Hermann Glfferich, another Frankfurt printer of popular medical texts. The text and woodcuts probably follow closely several editions of Brunfels's translations of Lanfranchi, published by Egenolff and others under the title Kleine Wundartznei, from 1528 through 1570.
RARE. BM/STC German p. 190 (under Charethanus); NLM/Durling 2663 (under Ketham); Norman 1212 (Ketham).
4o (188 x 142 mm). Collation: A-D4. 16 leaves, unfoliated. Gothic type. Title woodcut of anatomical man, small text cut of blood-letting man on D2r, the title cut partially colored. (Soiling, a few small stains, 2 or 3 minor marginal tears.) 19th-century half vellum over pasteboard.
One of several popular editions of a surgical handbook compiled from several sources including Lanfranchi's Chirurgia and Lorenz Fries's Spiegel der Artznei, the "Johann Charetanus" cited in the title being probably a transcription of Johannes Ketham, or possibly Girolamo Cardano (whose first signed work was however not published until 1536). The present compilation and translation can most likely be traced to the great botanist and medical scholar Otto Brunfels, author of the first medical bibliography as well as the first "modern" herbal, who translated and edited numerous medical and pharmacological texts including the above by Lanfranchi and Fries (cf. DSB II:537), both of which circulated widely among German printers of this period. Christian Egenolff, active in Strassburg from 1528 to 1530 before moving his press to Frankfurt, became the first permanent printer of that town, "laying the foundation stone of the dominant position of Frankfurt in the German printing trade" (Benzing, Die Buchdrucker des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts im Deutschen Sprachgebiet, p. 113). Egenolff specialized in the publication of illustrated books, largely scientific, including a large number of cheaply printed and often pirated editions of popular medical and herbal texts, most of which survive in only very few copies. The present edition was preceded by at least one other Egenolff edition under a slightly variant title, dated 1530 (BMC) and/or 1531 (NLM/Durling), and was followed by later editions printed by Hermann Glfferich, another Frankfurt printer of popular medical texts. The text and woodcuts probably follow closely several editions of Brunfels's translations of Lanfranchi, published by Egenolff and others under the title Kleine Wundartznei, from 1528 through 1570.
RARE. BM/STC German p. 190 (under Charethanus); NLM/Durling 2663 (under Ketham); Norman 1212 (Ketham).