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VALASCUS de TARENTA (ca. 1382-ca. 1417). De epidemia et peste. [Basel: Martin Flach, ca. 1474.]
Chancery 2o (279 x 200 mm). Collation: [18 26] (1/1r incipit, author's prologue, and contents, 1/1v text, 2/6v blank). 14 leaves. 32 lines. Type: 1:117 (transitional state). 3-line spaces for initials. (A few small mostly marginal wormholes, a few insignificant marginal tears, some light staining.) Modern calf antique, blank filler leaves at end.
Provenance: contemporary marginalia (contents notes); Medical Society of the County of Kings and Academy of Medicine of Brooklyn, inkstamp.
First separate edition of one of the first works on public health and one of the earliest medical books printed. Valascus, a Portuguese doctor who studied at Montpellier and became chief royal physician to Charles VI of France, was the author of a treatise on medicine and surgery (Practica, quae alias Philonium dicitur, Lyon 1490). The present treatise on the plague was first printed in the two first editions of Arnoldus de Villa Nova, De arte cognoscendi venena (Padua 1473 and Mantua 1473). Another edition was printed circa 1474 by an unidentified southern French press, but this Basel edition has traditionally been given priority (cf. Hain, Klebs, Goff).
Goff V-2; BMC III, 741 (IB. 37234); H *15244; Klebs 1007.2; Osler 52; Garrison-Morton 5113; Norman 2124.
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Provenance: contemporary marginalia (contents notes); Medical Society of the County of Kings and Academy of Medicine of Brooklyn, inkstamp.
First separate edition of one of the first works on public health and one of the earliest medical books printed. Valascus, a Portuguese doctor who studied at Montpellier and became chief royal physician to Charles VI of France, was the author of a treatise on medicine and surgery (Practica, quae alias Philonium dicitur, Lyon 1490). The present treatise on the plague was first printed in the two first editions of Arnoldus de Villa Nova, De arte cognoscendi venena (Padua 1473 and Mantua 1473). Another edition was printed circa 1474 by an unidentified southern French press, but this Basel edition has traditionally been given priority (cf. Hain, Klebs, Goff).
Goff V-2; BMC III, 741 (IB. 37234); H *15244; Klebs 1007.2; Osler 52; Garrison-Morton 5113; Norman 2124.