Sales catalogue: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/74
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 28 | 1498 aD. AVICENNA (died 1037). Canonis de medicina libri I, III et IV. Fen prima. [With commentary by Jacques Despars, chief physician to Charles VII of France. | Gothic Letter, double columns of 73 lines of commentary surrounding text. Initial spaces, with guide-letters. Initials painted in red and blue by a contemporary hand; paragraph- marks and marginal flourishes in red. Treschel’s printer's device at end of the third volume). (See Reproduction opposite). Lyons, Jean Trechsel and (completed by) Jean Clein, December 24th, 1498. 3 vols., large folio. Contemporary bindings of wooden boards covered with stamped brown leather, clasps. Collation :—Book I: a-z*°zo 4’aa-zz*zz99 44°aaa-ccc*dddccc* = 452 leaves, the last blank. Book III (part 1): [**] A-S°*T°U-ZAA-ZZ*A AABBB*=380 leaves, the last blank. Book III (part 2): Aa-Zz Aaa-Xxx*Yyy°=358 leaves, the last blank. Book IV. Fen I: aaaa*bbbb-yyyy*zzzz*=142 leaves, the last blank. 3 Hain *2214. Pellechet 1668. Proctor 8616. Claudin IV, pp. 85-94. This colossal work was produced at the presses of Jean Trechsel, a cele- brated printer and publisher at Lyons; the present copy was bound up in three volumes in its present stout bindings shortly after publication. The vast commentations surrounding the text represent almost twenty years work by the famous physician Jacques Despars, who was attached success- ively to the persons of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy and Charles VII, King of France. The original manuscript with the annotations in Despars’ own hand is still in the library of the Faculty of Medicine at Paris, where Despars bequeathed it. The promoter of this edition of Avicenna, Jacques Ponceau, chief physician of Charles VIII, solicited the
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