Roderici a Castro Lusitani, philosophiae ac medicinae doctoris ... De universa muliebrium morborum medicina : novo et antehac a nemine tentato ordine opus absolutissimum ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castro, Rodrigo de, 1546-1627.

Contributor:

Frobenius, Georg Ludwig, 1566-1645, bookseller.

Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Henry Charles Lea Fund.

Lea Library Maintenance Fund.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Gynecology--Early works to 1800.

Gynecology.

Obstetrics--Early works to 1800.

Obstetrics.

Women--Health and hygiene--Early works to 1800.

Women.

Women--Health and hygiene.

Penn Provenance:

Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990 (bookplate) (former owner) (stamp) (Cassuto Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm (4to)

Edition:

Altera editio auctior et emendatior.

Other Title:

De universa muliebrium morborum medicina

Fingerprint:

umem s.s- c.on mufi (3) 1617 (R) v.1

0.am elj. i-um cute (3) 1617 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

Hamburgi : Ex bibliopolio Frobeniano, Anno MDCXVII [1617]

Contents:

Pars prima Theorica. Quatuor comprehensa libris, in quibis cuncta, quae ad mulieris naturam, anatomen, semen, menstruum, conceptum, uteri gestationem, foetus formationem, & hominis ortum attinet, abundantissimè explicantur

Pars secunda, sive Praxis. Quatuor contenta libris, in quibus mulierum morbi universi, tam, qui cunctis foeminis sunt communes, quam, qui virginibus, viduis, gravidis, puerperis, & lactantibus peculiares, singulari ordine traduntur, subinde[que] variae sterilitatis species, earum[que] naturae, causae, signa, & curationes, distincta & accurata methodo edocentur.

Notes:

Signatures: v. 1: a-c⁴ A-2K⁴ 2L² ; v. 2: a[dagger]² A-4D⁴.

Pagination: v. 1: [24], 226, [42] p. ; v. 2: [4], 541, [43] p., [1] leaf of fold. plates.

Titles in red and black.

Title vignettes, initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Charles Lea Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lea Library Maintenance Fund.

Cassuto Collection copy has some ms. underlines and notes in red ink; a few ms. underlines and notes in brown ink.

Alfonso Cassuto Collection copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2014 from the Cassuto family in Portugal.

Cassuto Collection copy has bookplate (on front pastedown) and armorial blind stamp (on title leaf of v. 1 and leaves 4D4r of v. 2) of the library of Alfonso Cassuto.

Cassuto Collection copy has 2 illegible round ink stamps on title leaf of v. 1; partially illegible dated 17th-century ownership inscription ("Ex bibliotheca Christiani [...] 16[...]") in brown ink at foot of title leaf of v. 1.

Cassuto Collection copy bound in 1 vol. in full parchment; boards doubled ruled in blind; blind-ruled spine panels; evidence of ms. title at head of spine; all edges blue (now somewhat effaced).

Cassuto Collection copy has consignment receipt from Swann Auction Galleries to Alvaro Cassuto (dated 10/17/2012) laid in; 2 paper slips (1 a carbon copy of the other) with typescript description of this copy laid in

Cassuto Collection copy: tail outer corner of title leaf of v. 1 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with some loss of ms. ownership inscription; binding damaged (hinge of left board repaired).

Cited in:

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 48844

VD 17 23:290214P

OCLC:

14298876