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Lot 196

ARNALDUS DE VILLANOVA
Op[er]a nuperrime revisa, Lyon, Jacob Myt for Scipio de Gabiano, 1532

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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ARNALDUS DE VILLANOVA

Op[er]a nuperrime revisa, title printed in red and black within decorative woodcut border, woodcut astrological diagrams on f.294v, woodcut initials, several early annotations (most prolific to section on epilepsy), a few small marginal dampstains, contemporary vellum, soiled with some repairs to spine and upper cover [Adams A1981; Durling 309], folio (305 x 205mm.), Lyon, Jacob Myt for Scipio de Gabiano, 1532

Footnotes

Born in Spain, Arnald was by 1291 teaching at Montpellier, where his "teaching and writings... were of the first importance in establishing the content of scholastic medicine there" (DSB).

Provenance: Georg Kloss, Frankfurt am Main, nineteenth century bookplate; Sir Francis Palgrave (1788-1861, historian, or his son, 1824-1897, of Golden Treasury fame), inscription dated 16 October 1840 on title.

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