tib00260000

Text-inc Id:

tib00260000

Bod-inc Id:

B-125

Headings:

Barzizius, Christophorus (medicus) Introductorium ad opus practicum medicinae, et al. (ed. Johannes Antonius Bassinus).

Analysis of content:

1. a1v Bassinus, Johannes Antonius: [Letter addressed to] Ambrosius Varisius Rosatus. Incipit: ‘Solent, Ambrosi magnifice, qui aliquid sunt edituri dicare labores suos alicui celebri viro . . .’ Dated Pavia, 21 Aug. 1494.
2. a1v Barzizius, Christophorus: [Poem addressed to] Ambrosius [Varisius] Rosatus. Incipit: ‘Quod mihi defuerat celesti sede recepto | Ambrosi mihi nuper addidisti'; 10 elegiac distichs. The author is not identical with the grammarian of the same name, the author of B‑124; see R. Cessi, ‘Cristoforo Barzizza medico del secolo xv', Bollettino della Civica Biblioteca di Bergamo, 3 (1909), 1-17; DBI VII 33; LMA I 1501-2.
3. a2r Barzizius, Christophorus: Introductorium sive janua ad opus practicum medicinae. Edited by Johannes Antonius Bassinus. Corrected by Petrus Buzius. Incipit: ‘[A]ntonius Cermesonus nostro tempore primus ex mente Abohali aperuit casum in terminis . . .’ See P. Kibre, ‘Cristoforo Barzizza, Professor of Medicine at Padua', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 11 (1942), 388-98, at 389-90.
4. e6r [Publisher's note on the inclusion of the text by Rhasis.]
5. e6r Rhasis: Liber IX Almansoris. ‘De cephalea'. [Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis.] Incipit: ‘[Q]uando rubedo et tensio et grauedo in facie et oculis cum istis affuerit . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1170, Carmody, 135, and DSB XI 323-6 and DSB, supplement I, vol. XV 183.
6. e6v Barzizius, Christophorus: ‘Expositio super nono Almansoris'. Incipit: ‘[O]mmissis puerilibus consuet[i] queri circa princi[pia] librorum venio ad continuationem . . .’ Commentary alternates with the text.
7. N1v [Colophon with note on the editor and corrector, Petrus Buzius.]
8. N2r ‘Tabula capitulorum presentis voluminis'.
9. N3r Buzius, Petrus: ‘In laudem Cristophori Barzizii carmina'. Incipit: ‘Insigni celebris fama Barzizius olim | Claruit et medica nulli fuit arte secundus'; 27 hexameters.

Imprint:

Pavia: Antonius de Carcano, for Octavianus Scotus, 20 Aug. 1494. Folio.

Collation:

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References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00260000 GW 3672; H *2666 = 2665; Goff B‑260; Pr 7066; BSB‑Ink B‑216; CIBN B‑161; Hillard 304; Sack, Freiburg, 527; Sheppard 5830. LCN: 13934820

Copies:

1. B-125(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, for the Bodleian Library; on the inside of upper cover the running binder's number ‘10/'; cf. Auct. 2Q 2.6; 2.11; 2.12; 2.15; 2.17; Auct. 2Q 3.9; 3.10; 3.11; 3.16; 3.17; and 3.18. Size: 297 × 210 × 49 mm. Size of leaf: 286 × 200 mm. Provenance: Acquired before 1605; see James, Catalogus (1605), 185. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 2.4.