Guttenberger, Eberhard ( -1518)

Lectiones in primum librum primi Canonis Avicennae, a Gerardo Cremonensi translati. Autoris 'Consilium circa pestem', et 'Janua ad opus practicum', etc. Author's holograph MSS., with dedication to Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg. Vol. 1. Fol. 1 Liber canonis primus Auicenne principis abohali de medicina. / Quem de Arabico in latinum transtulit totaliter Gerhardus / Cremonensis. 131 Tantum de doctrina quarta: fen primi: primi canonis. principis abohali Auicenne / Lecta ordinaria per me Eberhardum Guttenberger: decanum medicine: In / gignasio almo franckfordiano: finita In Vigilia Egidii 1508 xvi die / mensis octobris. This section contains sentences from the text with commentaries on the Introduction, and the first four 'Doctrinae' of Fen. 1. 132 De pulsu. // Summa prime doctrine 3e fen secunde primi [canonis] est de pulsibus / Cuius sunt 19 capitula. This section is incomplete and ends in the middle of Capitulum II 'De pulsu qui provenit ex cibo et potu'. 173 Consilium circa pestem. In preservando / atque curando. Consilium pro quoddam domino infecto. 191v Explicit commentariolum de peste: In praeseruationem et curationem. / Collectum ad maximum ex Guainerio papiensem [sic] artium / et medicinae doctorem [sic] per Eberhardum Guttenberger / de hallis: artium et vtriusque medicine doctorem tunc ipse / phisicus Insignis et Imperialis ciuitatis Northausen. 1505. Written inside the lower cover: 'Dem durchleuchsten hochgeborenen fursten und hern / her Joachim Marckgraff zu Brandenbergk / Desz heyligen romischen reychss erczkamerers und kurfurst. / Zu Stettin Pommern Der Cassuben und Wenden herzog / Burckgraff zu Nuzburgk und furst zu ruyge [Rügen?] Unserem gneydigsten herrn.' Vol. II. Fol. I 1509 ['9' superscribed on '8']. // In vigilia Palmarum: doctrinam sextam primi canonis Auicennae Incepi colligere manu propria / Martini ['Pentecostis' struck through] aggressus in Vniuersitate franckefordiana ordinarie etc. // Fuit audiens ordinarie Magister petrus de cansteda [Cannstätt] medicinae decanus doctor. / Magister kalb. [doctor]. / Magister Andreas doctor moralium [?] / Apoticarius baccalarius. doctor Juris. / Socius aliquis. / Magister Zimmermann. doctor Juris. 2 Tractatus sextus. / Doctrina sexta: primi canonis Auicenne: de Virtutibus. 70v Explicata est fen prima omnis prioris Auicenne. In gignasio franckefordiana / anno domini 1510. In vigilia Michaelis Archangeli. per Eberhardum Guttenbergensem / artium vtriusque medicine doctorem et professorem facultatis decanum... 71 Tractatus Eberhardi Guttenbergensis Sueui: Junioris atque medici minimi. dictus Janua ad opus practicum: ad vtilitatem achademie franckefordiane: scholarum suorum ['Incipit' crossed through] atque dei laudem. Incipit feliciter. 1508. In vigilia sancte Katharine. 131v Et tantum de Janua ad opus practicum medicine: 1508. In vigilia trium regum explicatum / per Eberhardum vbi in presenti. 132 Anno incarnationis christi saluatoris 1508. die sequenti post Gregorii pape / festum incepi resumere summam secundam doctrine 3e fen secunde principis / abohali Auicenne: que summa est de vrinis: modo collectum vt adnotaui prius / ad maiorem discipulorum eruditionem. In habitatione mea. de mane hora sexta. 174 Tantum de summa secunde fen primi canonis: que est de vrina maxime in vtilitate. Interpretata per me Eberhardum guttenbergensem de hallis sueuie: ordinarie. In achademia franckefordiana. finita 1508 / die decimo mensis octobris ante [festum?] Galli. // Laus et Gloria: soli deo altissimo. Atque / sue immaculate Virgini marie matri. 174v, 175 Signa impregnationis. 176 Blank. On fol. 174, below the 'Explicit' are two lists of names. The first under the date 1508, bracketed as 'Continui scholares' consists of 'Weymann / Ebel / kalwis / petrus de cansteda / Apoticarius'. This list may be compared with that on the first leaf of this volume. Below the 'Laus et Gloria' is another list of 'Continui scholares'. This is under the date '1517 / Anno. hanc summam raris / legi. Fuerunt audientes. / Magister ambrosius medicus / Magister minckel / Magister Andreas: antiquus socius / Magister funck / Magister blesigk / Magister wiess / Quidam prepositus [?] / Wolffgangus apoticarius / franciscus binch [?] / Magister Jorius [?] bauarus'. Vol. III. Fol. 1 Quarta [fen] primi [Canonis]. 2 Anno domini 1541 [sic for '1514'] die sequenti festum Purificationis Immaculate et gloriosissime Virginis / Marie incepi legere ordinarie fen quartam primi canonis principis Auicenne In uniuer / sitate franckefordiana. Hora prima in lectorio theologorum. 181 Tantum de 25 capitulo: de apostematibus esimiis [eximiis] Interpretando: In Vigilia / Michaelis archangeli 1514. 181v Tractatus qui annecti capitulo de apostematibus. In quo pono / medicinas tam simplices quam compositas ... 190v Ad laudem dei: tractatulus qui [sic] hic annecti capitulo 25 de apostematibus est finitus: ... per Eberhardum Guttenber / gensem: artium vtriusque medicine doctorem: decanum medice facultatis: gignasii franckefordiani / Ad lucem datus et declaratus. Anno domini millesimo quin ['quadrin' struck through] gentesimo decimoquarto. In die / Sancti Luce euangeliste. // 1514 In die luce. Ff. 191v-196 De medicamentis. Fol. 197 Blank. 198 Fen secunda primi [canonis] // Capitulum V // De egritudinibus capitulum / [In the margin: 'De apostematibus in generali / hic' /]. 209 Et tantum de apostematibus: fen secunde primi Canonis Doctrina sexta. This section is Doctrina I of Capitulum V in the Junta edition of the Canon published in 1595. Produced in Nordhausen and Frankfort-an-der-Oder.

1505-1517

3 volumes 3 vols. 191 ll.: 176 (last bl.): 209 ll. folio. 301/2 x 22 cm. (Vols. 1 & 3): 35 x 23 cm. (Vol. 2). Original stamped half pigskin binding, with two metal and pigskin clasps. Upper margins of Vols. 1 and 3 slightly cropped. Fol. 173 of Vol. 1 is stained and somewhat damaged. In each volume are several inserted slips of various sizes.

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Purchased 1933.

Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg [1484-1535] was the founder of the University of Frankfort-on-Oder in 1502, and Guttenberger was the first lecturer in the Medical Faculty. [Cf. Bauch. 'Die Anfänge der Universität Frankfort a.O.' Berlin. 1900, pp. 79-81.].

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Among other medical receipts and notes on fol. 1 of this volume, is an entry: 'Anno domini 1511 In Vigilia sancti Nicolai incepi colligere flores ex benedicto [?] extractoris [?]'.

Armorial book-plate of Christoph Wenczeslaus, Graf von Nostitz [1643-1712], lettered C.W.G.V.N., in each volume.