De universa muliebrium morborum medicina : novo & antehac à nemine tentato ordine : opus absolutissimum et studiosis omnibus vtile, medicis vero pernecessarium / Rodericus a Castro Lusitano ... authore ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castro, Rodrigo de, 1546-1627.

Contributor:

Baglioni, Paolo, bookseller.

Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Gynecology--Early works to 1800.

Gynecology.

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Women--Diseases--Early works to 1800.

Women.

Human reproduction--Early works to 1800.

Human reproduction.

Obstetrics.

Women--Diseases.

Medical Subjects:

Gynecology.

Obstetrics.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

2 volumes (52 unnumbered pages, 176 pages, 40 unnumbered pages, 177-598 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations ; 23 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Half-title: Rodericus a Castro de morbis mulierum

De vniversa mvliebrivm morborvm medicina

De universa muliebrium morborum medicina

Fingerprint:

iais 37i- a-s; dust (3) 1644 (R) v.1

06e. 8913 d.a. Lamo (C) 1644 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

Venetiis : Apud Paulum Baleonium, MDCXXXXIV [1644]

Contents:

(from t.p. of each vol.) Pars prima theorica, quatuor comprehensa libris, in quibus cuncta, quae ad mulieris naturam, anatomen, semen, menstruum, conceptum, vteri gestationem, foetus formationem, & hominis ortum attinent, abundantissime explicantur : cum triplice indice

Pars secunda, siue praxis : quatuor contenta libris, in quibius mulierum morbi vniuersi, tam, qui cunctis foeminis sunt communes, quàm, qui virginibus, viduis, grauidis, puerperis, & lactantibus peculiares, singulari ordine tradantur, subindeq́ue variae sterilitatis species, earum[que] naturae, causae, signa, & curationes, distincta & accurata methodo edocentur ... cum triplice indice.

Notes:

Signatures: [superscript pi][a]⁴ [superscript pi]b-c⁸ [superscript pi]d⁶ A-L⁸ [a]² b⁸ c¹⁰(-c10?) M-2O⁸ 2P⁴ (leaf 2P4 blank).

Each vol. has special dated title leaf; signatures and pagination are continuous.

Woodcut title vignettes, initials and tail-pieces.

Type ornament factotums, head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Cassuto Collection copy has modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on blank leaf preceding half-title leaf.

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 the library of Alfonso Cassuto.

Cassuto Collection copy bound by Frederico d'Almeida of Lisbon, Portugal (with his binder's ticket on verso of front free endpaper), in full marbled calf; boards double-ruled in gold; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; 2 gold stamped red leather spine labels ("RODERICVS A CASTRO" and "DE VNIVERSA MVLIEBRIVM MEDICINA"); imprint ("VENETIIS 1644") stamped in gold at foot of spine; red tops; red silk marker.

OCLC:

14308684