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Cornelii Celsi De medicina liber incipit

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Edited by Bartolomaeus Fontius, in collaboration with Franciscus Saxettus. Chancery folio and Royal quarto, with paper measuring 27.2 x 19.8 cm. One column of text, 34 lines; area of text: 18 x 11 cm. With initial spaces and guide-letters; without foliation and catchwords, except for one catchword on leaf pi6. Quires pi and a-x, leaves y2.5, y3.4, z2.5 and z3.4 are folio; rest are quarto.--Cf. BM 15th cent., IV, p. 627. Signatures: pi⁶ a⁴ b-i⁶ l-z⁶ &⁶ 2a-g⁶ 2h⁴ A⁸ (A8 blank). Imperfect: gathering A (the Tabula) lacking. Binding: red morocco; in green morocco solander case.
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Date
1478
Call number
86255
Creator
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Occasional faded marginal ms. annotations. From the Pembroke library.
Dimensions
29 cm (Folio and 4to)
Associated people
Fonte, Bartolommeo, (1445-1513,)
Laurentii, Nicolaus, (active 1475-1486,)
Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, (1656-1733,)
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