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La cirurgie de maistre Guillaume de Salicet.

Accession number
PML 21109.1
Creator
Guglielmo, da Saliceto, approximately 1210-1276 or 1277.
Object title

La cirurgie de maistre Guillaume de Salicet.

Published

Imprimee a Lyo[n] : par maistre Mathieu Husz, .1.4.9.2. le .xvie. iour de novembre [16 November 1492]

Description

[132] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf r6v: Cy finist la cyrurgie de maistre Guill[aum]e de salicet dit de place[n]tia par luy co[m]ma[n]cee a bolo[n]gne [et] achevee [et] corrigee a vero[n]ne la[n] de lincarnatio[ne] de n[ost]r[e] sesigneur 1276 le .xxve. iour de may. veue sur le latin p[er] ho[n]norable ho[m]me maistre Nicole prevost docteur en medici[n]e Et imprimee a lyo[n] par maistre Mathieu husz i[m]primeur la[n] .1.4.9.2. le .xvie. iour de novembre.
Printed in Huss's types 12:76G, 14:94G, and 23:ca.120G.
Signatures: a-p⁸ q-r⁶: 132 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Translated by Nicole Prevost (ISTC cites as Provost).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
Binding
Modern full green goatskin over paper boards (20.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Marius Michel. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
La cyrurgie
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
[Pierre?] Valette ainé, signatures, 19th century (leaves a1r and a2r of Cyrurgie and leaf d9r of Lunarium); Olin Lane Merriam, bookplate (front pastedown) and signature, Paris, 1905 (leaf a1r of Cyrurgie); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Aug. 1920.
Classification
Century
Department