tib00314000

Text-inc Id:

tib00314000

Bod-inc Id:

B-144

Headings:

Benedictus de Nursia De conservatione sanitatis, et al.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1v] [List of contents]. Incipit: ‘Pulcherrimum et utilissimum opus ad sanitatis conservationem, aeditum ab eximio ... magistro Benedicto de Nursia ... incipit foeliciter. Similiter etiam de magistro Tadeo de Florentia de regimine sanitatis ...’ Explicit: ‘... Sequitur nunc libellus ipse de conservatione sanitatis secundum ordinem alphabeti distinctus.’
2. [a1v] Benedictus de Nursia: De conservatione sanitatis. ‘De aere capitulum primum.’ Incipit: ‘[S]ummo decet studio emergentes morborum insidias deprimi ...’ [r4v] Explicit: ‘... Moderatus vero ad sanitatis conservationem iuvamentum praestat. | Finis huius libri.’ Gonario Deffenu, Benedetto Reguardati, medico e diplomatico di Francesco Sforza, Collana di studi di storia della medicina, 13 (Milan, 1955), 55-128. See Thorndike–Kibre 1539.
3. [r4v] Thaddeus de Florentia: De regimine sanitatis. [Also known as De conservanda sanitate]. Incipit: ‘Quoniam passibilis et mutabilis extat humani corporis conditio . . .’ [s3v] Explicit: ‘... vel domum construxit si nuptias fecerit, et sic de similibus male sibi succedet.’ See Thorndike–Kibre 1292. Thorndike–Kibre ascribes to Thaddeus de Florentia, Osler and GW to Johannes Hispalensis. Nancy G. Siraisi, Taddeo Alderotti and his Pupils: Two Generations of Italian Medical Learning (Princeton, 1982), 426 notes that the De regimine sanitatis is ‘a Latin version of the Italian regimen attributed to Taddeo'.
4. [s3v] Colophon: ‘Tractatus quidam de regimine sanitatis, opera et industria Dominici de Lapis, impendio tamen Sigismundi a Libris civis atque liberarii Bononiensis feliciter finiunt. Anno M.D.CCCC.lxxvii.’

Imprint:

Bologna Dominicus de Lapis, for Sigismundus de Libris 1477. 4°. Secundo folio: [a3r] Tamen si terrestribus et aqueis vaporibus

Collation:

[a⁸] b–i⁸ [k⁸] L⁸ m⁸ [n–r⁸ s⁴]. Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters, except [a1r] without printed letter.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00314000 GW 3819; HC *11920; Goff B‑314; BMC VI 814; Pr 6536; CIBN B‑218; Osler, IM 129; Rhodes, 316; Sheppard 5327-8. LCN: 12677360, 13932600

Copies:

1. B-144(1) First copy Wanting gatherings [o]–[q]. Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf, with gold-tooled spine. Size: 205 × 148 × 21 mm. Size of leaf: 201 × 137 mm. Occasional faint marginal notes, apparently in a contemporary hand, possibly several. Provenance: Acquired after 1738: not found in Fysher, Catalogus; but in Catalogus (1843), IV 879. Former Bodleian shelfmark: 4° M 36 Jur. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.14.
2. B-144(2) Second copy Binding: Parchment. Size: 213 × 160 × 30 mm. Size of leaf: 206 × 145 mm. Occasional early marginal annotations and some manuscript pagination. Provenance: Sebastianus and friends; inscription on [a1r]: ‘Est . . . Sebastiani et amicorum eius'. Oxford, Radcliffe Library; armorial book-plate. Probably acquired after 1840: not found in Catalogue (1835) or interleaved copy in Radcliffe Library records. Former Radcliffe shelfmarks: 22. K. 2. 4^a /42?; G.161.I.12/1-2; 3335/41; A.II.7; 86.A.22/1-2. SHELFMARK: RR.w.303 [RSL].