Accession number
PML 77703.2
Creator
Benedetti, Alessandro, approximately 1450-1512.
Object title
Alexandri Benedicti physici anatomice siue historia corporis hu[m]ani. Ejusdem Collectiones medicinales; seu, aforismi.
Published
Impressum in alma Parisioru[m] academia : per Henricum Stephanum artis formulariae industrium opificem, ex opposito scholae Decretoru[m] habitante[m], Anno domini omnium authoris & conseruatoris millesimo quingentesimo quatrodecimo pridie Nonas Ianuarias
Description
82 leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund, 1983.
Notes
Woodcut border on title page.
Sale place from title page (leaf 1), imprint from colophon (leaf 82).
Signatures: a-h⁸ i⁴ k⁸ l⁶
"Hippocratis Jusjurandum" (translated by Niccolò Perotti): leaves 81-82.
Sale place from title page (leaf 1), imprint from colophon (leaf 82).
Signatures: a-h⁸ i⁴ k⁸ l⁶
"Hippocratis Jusjurandum" (translated by Niccolò Perotti): leaves 81-82.
Binding
16th-century English panel-stamped calf over wooden boards (22 x 14 cm.), sewn on 3 supports, with the Tudor royal arms (English royal arms on front; Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon on rear). 2 clasps, missing.
Variant title
Anatomice sive historia corporis humani
Provenance
[Previously presumed to be from the library of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon because of binding, but not in Carley, Libraries of Henry VIII.] Unidentified pencil shelfmark: 10.9 (leaf [1]/1r; each work in volume enumerated 10.7-10.10); Boies Penrose (1902-1976), Old East India House bookplate (front endleaf 1 verso) (his sales, Sotheby's, 5 Feb. 1934, 19 Nov. 1945, or 27 Jan. 1947?); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from John F. Fleming on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund, 1983.
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