De conseruatione sanitatis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gazio, Antonio, 1449-1528.

Contributor:

Gregori, Giovanni de', active 15th century, printer.

Gregori, Gregorio de', active 1480-1528, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Corona florida medicinae

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Health--Early works to 1800.

Health.

Hygiene--Early works to 1800.

Hygiene.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Hough, John Stockton, 1845-1900 (former owner)

Stockton-Hough Library (former owner)

Physical Description:

126 unnumbered leaves (leaves [124] and 126 unnumbered pages) ; 32 cm (folio)

Other Title:

De conservatione sanitatis

Caption title (leaf a1r): Florida Corona Medicinae omnibus sanitatem affecta[n]tibus utilis & necessaria : edita per Antoniu[m] Gaziu[m] patauinu[m] Artiu[m] ac Medicinae [pro]fesso[rum] minimu[m]

Fingerprint:

ide. alus rieo escv (C) 1491 (R)

Place of Publication:

Impressum uenetiis : Per Iohannem de forliuio & Gregorium fratres, Anno salutis Mcccclxxxxi die xx me[n]sis Iunii [20 June 1491]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf A1r).

Imprint from colophon which reads: Diuino fauente numine. Ego Antoni[us] Gazius patauus medicoru[m] o[mn]ium minimus die. xii. Augusti de anno d[omi]ni. Mcccclxxxx. p[re]sens opus absolui. Ad laudem redemptoris nostri & ad tuam: & amicorum tuoru[m] utilitatem. D.M. obserua[n]diss. cui iterum at[que] iterum me co[m]mendo Vale. Impressum uenetiis per Iohannem de forliuio & Gregorium fratres Anno salutis. M.cccclxxxxi. die xx. me[n]sis Iunii.

Signatures: A⁶ a⁸ b-s⁶ t⁸ [u]² (t8 and [u]2 blanks).

"The existence of a blank leaf after the errata [i.e. leaf [u]2] is hypothetical."--BM 15th cent.

Leaf e3 signed "d iii"; leaf q2 signed "p ii".

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a2r: 57 lines to a full column; area of text: 230 x 154 mm; col. width: 72 mm. (Number of lines to a full column varies; GW gives: 56 Z.) Initial spaces, most with guide-letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Captions on leaf a1r printed in red. Woodcut printer's device (74 x 44 mm.) of Giovanni and Gregorio de' Gregori on leaf t8v: "The Gregori brothers chose as their device a large double cross with a St. Andrew's cross on the staff, flanked by the initials of their forenames, Z (for Zovanni, i.e. Giovanni) and G (for Gregorio). The St. Andrew's cross is an emblem of fertility and good luck."--M. Harman, Printer's and publisher's devices in incunabula in the University of Illinois Library, no. 84. Errata on leaf [u]1.

Incipit of table on leaf A2r reads: Incipit tabula Capituloru[m] libri huius soemnissimi qui Corona Florida Medicinae, siue Conseruatio sanitatis, intitulatur.

List of authors cited on leaf A6r.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 315 x 216 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. correction of signature mark in brown ink on leaf e3r; modern ms. inscriptions ("Duplum" and bibliographical references) in pencil at head of title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy previously part of the J. Stockton Hough Collection.

Penn Libraries copy bound in modern three-quarter parchment over black cloth; author and title stamped in gold on spine.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves [u]1 and [u]2 (errata and final blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy has a few wormholes in leaves (final gatherings lightly wormed) with occasional minimal damage to text.

Cited in:

Goff G-111

BM 15th cent. V, p. 341 (IB. 21010)

GW 10563

BSB-Ink. G-48

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1976-1978

IGI 4182

ISTC ig00111000

OCLC:

78175698