tia01065900

Text-inc Id:

tia01065900

Bod-inc Id:

A-433

Headings:

Arnoldus de Villa Nova De arte cognoscendi venena.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Arnoldus de Villa Nova: De arte cognoscendi venena. Incipit: ‘[T]imens de uenenis caueat sibi de manu cuius recipiet cibos et potus suos et maxime potum uini . . .’ Arnoldus de Villa Nova, Opera (Lyons, 1520), fols 221^va -222^ra. See Thorndike–Kibre 1573; Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz, Index scriptorum Latinorum medii aevi Hispanorum (Madrid, 1959), 342 no. 1694; Juan A. Paniagua, Estudios y notas sobre Arnau de Vilanova (Madrid, 1963), 20; Juan A. Paniagua, El maestro Arnau de Vilanova médico (Valencia, 1969), 67.
2. [a4r] ‘Additio.’ Incipit: ‘[N]ota quod curatio ueneni fit aliquo istorum quatuor modorum . . .’
3. [a4r] Valascus de Tarenta: ‘Prologus.’ Incipit: ‘[P]remeditans procellam humani generis morbis epidimialibns(!) continue illatam, in honorem dei et uirginis gloriose et ne candela sub modio recondatur . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1083.
4. [a4v] [Table of contents.]
5. [a4v] Valascus de Tarenta: De epidemia et peste. Incipit: ‘[Q]uod uidimus testamur et quod testamur uerum est . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1256; A. C. Klebs and K. Sudhoff, Die ersten gedruckten Pestschriften (Munich, 1926), 54 and 76 no. 119; A. C. Klebs and E. Droz, Remèdes contre la peste (Paris, 1925), 89 no. 119.
6. [c2r] [Table of contents.]
7. [c3v] Petrus de Abano: [Prologue addressed to] Nicolaus III, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[R]everendissimo in Cristo patri et domino domino Nicolao, diuina prouidentia summo pontifici . . .’
8. [c4r] Petrus de Abano: De venenis. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia uenenum oppositum est cibo nostri corporis ideo sicut cibus ipse efficitur pars nostri corporis . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1234.
9. [e7v] [Silvaticus, Matthaeus]: De lapide Begaar [Bezoar] ex pandectis. Incipit: ‘[L]apis Begaar Latine uel lapis liberans a uenenis Arabi, Hager, Begaar. Begaar est nomen Persicum et est expellens nocumentum . . .’ See Silvaticus, Pandectarum opus (Venice, 1524), sig. q3v, with some variations; also Thorndike II,909-10. On authorship see Thorndike III 233-4.

Imprint:

Mantua: [Johannes Vurster and Johannes Baumeister], 1473. 4°.

Collation:

[a b⁸ c¹⁰ d e⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia01065900 HC 7 + 1805; Goff A‑1067; BMC VII 929; GW 2522; Pr 6884; BSB‑Ink A‑735; CIBN A‑569; Oates 2583; Osler, IM, 41; Rhodes, ‘Mantua', 178-9, nos 9 and 12; Sheppard 5618-19. LCN: 13978334, 13978377

Copies:

1. A-433(1) First copy Wanting the blank leaf [c1]. Gatherings [c]–[e] bound before [a]–[b]. Binding: Mottled sheep(?) [Sheppard describes as brown morocco]; marbled pastedowns. Size: 242 × 173 × 20 mm. Size of leaf: 234 × 161 mm. Occasional marginal annotations. Five- and three-line initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red. Provenance: inscription: ‘De Peregrinis', on [c2r]. Oxford, Radcliffe Library; probably purchased by the Radcliffe Library in 1850 from William Pamplin (1806-1899); note on verso of endleaf: ‘Pamplin, Nov. 20, 1850'; white shelfmark label inside the upper cover, with ‘RR.W.297' written in pencil over an earlier shelfmark. Transferred by the Radcliffe Trustees between 1861 and 1893. Former Radcliffe shelfmark: RR.W.297. SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I18.1473.1.
2. A-433(2) Second copy Wanting gatherings [a] and [b]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf. Size: 218 × 160 × 9 mm. Size of leaf: 211 × 148 mm. Manuscript titles on [c1r]. Provenance: Luigi Serra, 4th Duca di Cassano (1747-1825); see Catalogo, 5, under ‘Abano, Pet. de'. George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); sale (1821), lot 1; purchased for £0. 6. 0; see Books Purchased (1821), 1 and the annotated sale catalogue. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.23.