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Consilia medica

Lot 44
28.01.2025 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 44 | Consilia medica
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MONTAGNANA, Bartholomaeus (fl. 1428–1448). Consilia medica. Edited by Jacobus de Vitalibus. [Venice]: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 2 August 1497.

Third edition, augmented with an additional Consilium, owned by contemporary medical professors. The most extensive collection of late medieval medical case studies by a single physician, Montagnana’s Consilia compiles over 300 case studies that address almost every inch of the body from diseases of the brain, nerves, eyes, ears and nose to the heart and lungs down to the intestines and genitalia. Montagnana is ‘said to have dissected over a dozen human bodies, which was an unusually large number for a physician at that time’ and used his working documents to contribute to the revived genre of clinical studies geared for students that was emerging in the 15th century (Heirs). Each consultation provides patient details including name, age, sex, employment, conditions and symptoms, from which Montagnana assesses possible diagnoses and proposes health regimens, medicinal remedies and physical interventions such as bleeding, fumigation, cauterization and surgery. By frequently citing ancient and contemporary authorities Montagnana provides valuable diagnostic and therapeutic bibliographies, and his regimes constitute 'miniature dietetic and culinary treatises' (Agrimi & Criscianii).

This copy was owned, consulted and exchanged by medical doctors for much of its early life. Johannes Sorbillo, professor of medicine at the University of Mainz from 1513 to c.1518, presented the copy to Peter Diel in 1513 with a long humanist poem addressed to him. Diel is likely a relation of Sorbillo's colleague at Mainz University, and possibly the Peter Diel who matriculated in the medical faculty at Heidelberg in 1514. Furthermore, another early inscription between doctors and the beginnings of an extensive index in manuscript on the flyleaves attests to a network of physicians in Renaissance Germany and their exchange of printed books, as well as the great utility of the text for the study and practice of medicine. J. Agrimi and C. Criscianii, Les consilia médicaux (Brepolis, 1994). Stadtarchiv Mainz, Protokoll der Medizinische Fakultät 1513. HC(Add) *11552; BMC V 448; BSB-Ink M-559; GW M25279; Goff M-815; Klebs 689.3; ISTC im00815000.

Median folio (319 × 216mm). 396 leaves. Woodcut initials (marginal worming in first and last leaves, some light stains, outer margin of T3 strengthened, a few leaves with small marginal losses, repair at margin of colophon). Contemporary German half blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, catchplates and clasps, author's name on fore-edge, index tabs (spine a bit darkened with old labels, some scratches, a little wear at board tips, clasps restored). Provenance: early marginalia, including the beginning of an extensive index added in a contemporary hand on flyleaves - Johannes Sorbillo (University of Mainz Faculty of Medicine professor, 1513 to at least 1518; presentation poem dated 1513 on flyleaf to 'Petr[us] Diel') – Peter Diel (possibly a relation of University of Mainz professor Florentin Diel (1472-1518) and medical student at Heidelberg; inscription and presentation poem) – 'Sum doctoris Bartholomei ?Fusniri ex bibliotheca Doctoris Joannis Lavigii'
Place of origin:Italy
Auction house category:Antiquarian books, Medicine & science, Printed books
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