Pars p[ri]ma come[n]tarij texual[is] in nonu[m] Alma[n]soris cu[m] ampliacio[n]ib[us] et addicionibus materierum / per magistru[m] Ioannem Matheu[m] ex Ferrarijs de Gradi Mediolane[n]sem.

Accession number:

PML 18737-38

Author:

Ferrari de Gradi, Giovanni Matteo, -1472.

Published:

[Milan] : [Philippus de Lavagnia], [between 29 October and 30 December 1472]

Description:

[512] leaves ; 40.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908. NNPM

Notes:

Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
On the date, etc. see A.C. Klebs, The Practica of Gianmatteo Ferrari da Gradi, editio princeps, in Essays on the History of Medicine presented to Prof. Karl Sudhoff (Oxford, 1924).
Printed in Lavagnia's type 2:113G.
Collation, part I: [1-9¹⁰ 10⁸(7+1: ".s. mediens"); 11-17¹⁰ 18⁸(1+1: "cephalica"); 19-24¹⁰ 25⁶]: 244 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank; part II: [26-37¹⁰ 38¹² 39-51¹⁰ 52⁶]: 268 leaves, leaves [26]/1 and [52]/6 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Part II often mistaken for part I.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 27 cm. NNPM
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank). NNPM
PML Checklist has a cross reference for the press of Johannes de Sidriano at Pavia (after ChL 1293) for ChL1054. NNPM

Binding:

18th-century Italian stiff vellum over paper boards (40.5 x 29 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves, with printed waste visible as spine reinforcement (vol. I only); decorative endbands; sprinkled edges. NNPM

Variant Title:

Pars prima commentarii textualis in nonum Almansoris cum ampliacionibus et addicionibus materierum per magistrum Ioannem Mathewum ex Ferrariis de Gradi Mediolanensem

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout text; contemporary manuscript foliation. NNPM

Provenance:

Unidentified inscription, inked out (leaves [1]/2r [26]/2r); Donato Ferdinando Antonio Silva (1690-1779), of Milan, armorial stamps: "Comes Donatus Silva," ca. 1715 (leaves [1]/2r and [26]/1v) and shelfmarks: "Gradibus LB XV 257 299" (vol. II, front pastedown) and "E II" (leaf [26]/2r); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from (Jacques?) Rosenthal, Dec. 1908. NNPM

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books