Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
59/78 page 43
![a THE MEDICAL LIBRARY OF DR. NICOLAUS POL [ 30 ] 1502 aD. TARANTA, Vatescus bE (died about 1420). Practica, sive Philonium. [With an introduction by Jean de Tournemire, died 1396. ] Gothic Letter, double columns of 72 lines. Initial spaces; also numerous small ornamental woodcut initials. Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein, 18 February, 1502. Folio. Contemporary binding of wooden boards covered with stamped brown leather. Collation: [**];A-ZAA-BB*CC*=212 leaves, the last blank. Valescus de Taranta was a Portuguese doctor, who taught and practised at Montpellier. His writings, which brought him renown, and the appoint- ment of Physician to Charles VI of France, comprise a treatise on the plague and Phzlontum a work on medicine and surgery in seven books. He suggested the extirpation of cancer by means of a preparation contain- ing arsenic. A tall copy; the last few leaves water-stained. Inscribed ‘Nzcolaus Pol Doctor. 1494,’ by Dr. Pol inside the front cover. The ownership note of 1632 of the Collegiate Church at Innichen appears above the first page of text. Along the tail edges is painted the shelf letter D. |](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31647339_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
No text description is available for this image
No text description is available for this image
No text description is available for this image