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[REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNITANUM]. Regimen sanitatis cum expositione magistri Arnaldi de Villanova. [Lyons: Martin Huss(?), about 1500].
4o (200 x 134mm). Collation: a-88 f10 (a1r titlepage, a1r blank, a2r Regimen sanitatis salernitanum with commentary, f10v blank). 50 leaves. 47 lines, double column. Gothic type, spaces for initial capitals. Unrubricated. Types: 88G (title, text of the poem); 61G (commentary). (Title-page lightly soiled and with small patch where an early owner's signature was removed.) Later vellum, cloth ties (vellum cockled). Provenance: lengthy sixtebnth-century inscription beneath title.
A rare edition of the popular medieval poem on the preservation of health, including the spurious commentary of Arnoldus de Villanova, as revised about 1480 by doctors of the faculty of Montpellier (this version had been printed by Huss at Lyons as early as 1586 or 1487, see BMC VIII 262). These precepts in verse for good health, hygiene and diet, attributed to the medical faculty at Salerno, "apparently antedate the year 1311 and are presumably an accumulation from much earlier times" (Stillwell, Science, p. 498). "...A catch-all of advice and instruction...remains one of the most revealing medical works of the Middle Ages" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Goff R-76; Klebs 830.9 ("after 1500"); C 5065; Pell 1288; IGI 8303; Heirs of Hippocrates 43; Stillwell Science 498; Norman 1818.
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A rare edition of the popular medieval poem on the preservation of health, including the spurious commentary of Arnoldus de Villanova, as revised about 1480 by doctors of the faculty of Montpellier (this version had been printed by Huss at Lyons as early as 1586 or 1487, see BMC VIII 262). These precepts in verse for good health, hygiene and diet, attributed to the medical faculty at Salerno, "apparently antedate the year 1311 and are presumably an accumulation from much earlier times" (Stillwell, Science, p. 498). "...A catch-all of advice and instruction...remains one of the most revealing medical works of the Middle Ages" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Goff R-76; Klebs 830.9 ("after 1500"); C 5065; Pell 1288; IGI 8303; Heirs of Hippocrates 43; Stillwell Science 498; Norman 1818.