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SIMON GENUENSIS (fl. 1288-1303)

Lot 119
10.12.2025 12:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 119 | SIMON GENUENSIS (fl. 1288-1303)
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SIMON GENUENSIS (fl. 1288-1303)
Synonyma medicinae sive Clavis sanationis. Padua: Petrus Maufer de Maliferis, 20 April 1474.
Third edition of a dictionary of remedies written by the physician to Pope Nicolaus IV, combining particularly herbal remedies from Greek, Latin, and Arabic texts. Simon of Genoa’s Clavis sanationis was a hugely ambitious text which offered definitions of remedies from different medical texts and languages. The author travelled widely in accumulating this knowledge, including to Crete, and, unusually for the period, performed thorough cross-referencing of the efficacy of particular remedies. The text’s contemporary popularity is attested by its many references in medical works in the centuries which followed its publication. Wodhull’s bibliographic notes on the fly leaf indicate that he acquired this volume on 16 April 1789, however the catalogue of the sale in which it appeared as lot 6797 shows that it was not sold until 29 April. Cf. P. Bouras-Vallianatos, ‘Simon of Genoa’s Clavis sanationis: a Study of Thirteenth-Century Latin Pharmacological Lexicography’, in Simon of Genoa’s Medical Lexicon, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 33-44; Goff S-527; HR 14748; Klebs 920.3; CIBN S-272; GW M42208; ISTC is00527000.

Chancery folio (317 x 230mm). 162 leaves. Major initials in red or blue (some scattered staining, very occasional wormholes, mostly marginal and occasionally repaired, lightly washed affecting rubrication, lower margin of the first 4 leaves replaced). 18th century vellum, gilt spine labels, blue edges (a little soiled). Provenance: Maffei Pinelli (Wodhull annotation; sold Robson & Clarke, and Edwards Auction, thirty-first day’s sale, 29 April 1789, lot 6797 to:) — Michael Wodhull (1740-1816; bibliographical notes on fly leaf) — by descent to J.E. Severne (sale Sotheby's, 11 January 1886) — Rev. T. H. Passmore (d. c. 1944; book plate)—Royal Society of Medicine (stamp).
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