Regimen sanitatis.

Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum.

[Strasbourg] : In die sancti Thome Ca[n]tuarien[sis] [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], M. CCCC. XCI. [29 Dec. 1491]

80 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

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BM 15th cent. I, p. 142 (IA. 2063)

BN cat. des incun. R-42

BSB-Ink. R-41

Goff, R-73

Klebs, 830.10

Poynter, 482

ISTC, ir00073000

Half-bound in blind stamped pigskin on oak boards with metal clasp. Repaired.

Text and commentary are frequently wrongly attributed to Arnaldus de Villanova; text is sometimes attributed to Joannes de Mediolano.--Cf. Cummins, P.W.A critical edition of Le regime tresutile et tresproufitable pour conserver et garder la sante du corps humain. Chapel Hill: UNC Dept. of Romance Languages, 1976., p. x.

One of sixteen editions of French origin, which claims to bear corrections by the doctors of Montpellier, even though the text is virtually identical to its uncorrected predecessors.--Cf. Wickersheimer, E. "Autour de Regime de Salerne," Le Scalpel, v. 105, no. 2, (1952), p. 1507.

Imprint from Goff and colophon.

Incipit on leaf a2 reads: Incipit regime[n] sanitat[is] salernitanu[m] excelle[n]tissimu[m] [pro] [con]seruatione sanitat[is] totius humani gener[is] [per]utilissimu[m]. necnon a m[a]g[ist]ro Arnaldo de villa noua cathelano omniu[m] medico[rum] viuentiu[m] gemma vtiliter ac [secundu]m omniu[m] antiq[uorum] medico[rum] doctrina[m] veraciter expositu[m]. nouiter correctu[m] ac eme[n]datu[m] per egregissimos ac medicine artis peritissimos doctores mo[n]tispessulani regentes anno. M.cccc.lxxx. predicto loco actu moram trahentes.

Colophon reads: Tractatus qui de regimine sanitatis nu[n]cupat[ur] Finit feliciter. Impressus Argen[tine]. Anno d[omi]ni M.cccc.xcj. In die sancti Thome ca[n]tuarien[sis].

Signatures: a-k8.

Chancery quarto, 34 lines; area of text: 135 x 90 mm. One initial space with guide-letter on leaf a2; without foliation and catchwords.

Manuscript note in Latin and underlined text in two different hands. Seventeenth century inscription on title page of 'Monasterij Rhenovensis, sub Abbate Eberhardo, A[nn]o 1624' and on leaf a2r 'Monasterij Rhenoviani' as well as an almost completely deleted inscription on the front flyleaf, 'Constat iij barze ... Menburgensis'. Architectural blue bookplate of '1895 - Ex libris Emil B. Goldschmidt Frankfurt am M.' and a stamp of the same owner in Mainz with a date of 1882.