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Aggregator, sive De medicinis simplicibus

Lot 20
28.01.2025 10:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 100
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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Lot 20 | Aggregator, sive De medicinis simplicibus
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
DONDIS, Jacobus de (1298–1359). Aggregator sive De medicinis simplicibus. [Strasbourg: The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch), c.1475–80].

First edition of one of the earliest texts dedicated exclusively to medicine, from the library of the Episcopal Court Library of Eichstätt in a contemporary binding. Pharmacological in nature, Dondis’ Aggregator, or Simple Medicine is a great encyclopaedic manual of medical recipes compiled from Greek and Arabic sources. It sets out remedies based on single ingredients, and thus provides readers with a guide to various plants and minerals and their medicinal properties. An extensive collection of medical knowledge, Dondis’ opus is symbolic of the later medieval interest in a chemical understanding of medicine and the dawn of modern pharmacology.

Preserving many manuscript signature marks, this large copy features occasional untrimmed leaves and retains its contemporary German binding. The wingless-dragon, eagle and rosette tools correspond with EBDB workshop w002725, known to have bound a 1477 Venetian edition (ISTC ia00928000) now in Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg (4º Ink 226). Very rare, with only four auction records over the past century (RBH). HC *6395; BMC I 64; BSB-Ink D-282; Bod-inc D-157; CIBN D-243; GW 9042; Goff D-358; Klebs 349.2; ISTC id00358000.

Royal folio (402 × 284mm). 286 leaves, plus a duplicate quire g6. 2-line and larger initials in red over printed guide-letters, many with decorative extensions, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and brackets in red (an extremely pale dampstain at upper right corner, intermittent mild toning, about 20 leaves with slight feathering to rubricated initials, tiny marginal chip to v1, a little soiling at top margins of quires d–e, s1 and s8 browned at lower margin, I2 and I9 with mild spotting). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards (EBDB S020290, S020291 and S020292 from workshop w002725), lettered in manuscript, manuscript title label on upper cover (spine and edges well-rubbed, corners showing, surface abrasion to covers). Provenance: Shelfmark K 720 written on spine – Episcopal Court Library of Eichstätt (17th-century inscription ‘Ad Bibl. Aul. Eystettensem’ on title-page) – shelfmark LM 37 on spine and upper pastedown – John Roseberry Monson, 10th Baron Monson (1907–1958; sale, Sotheby’s, 5 June 2013, lot 189).
Place of origin:Italy
Auction house category:Antiquarian books, Medicine & science, Printed books
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