Sales catalogue 485: Maggs Bros

Date:
1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/48
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 485: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF GREAT MEDICAL INTEREST. 1473-1474 A.D. [3] VOCABULARIUS. Vocabularius rerum cum teutonico. Brack Lerrer, 35 long lines to a full page. A capital on folio 2. Folio. Wooden boards, pigskin back. (Augsburg, Giinther Zainer, 1473-1474.) £175 Not in Hain. Copinger 6326. Proctor 1576. British Museum Catalogue, Vol. II., p. 821. Osler, Incunabula Medica 47. No. 4 in Zainer’s first advertisement. The Munich copy was rubricated in 1474. The work begins ‘* Caput, Haupt, est membrum, Animalis in amo omnium sensuum tam exteriorum quam interiorum organa ponuntur,’’ etc. ONLY ONE copy IN U.S.A. ‘“ The Vocabularius rerum, often misascribed to Brack, a Latin-German dictionary has four sections devoted to medicine: (1) De homine et de diversis membris in eo existentibus, in which the parts of the body are defined in order, with the German equilvalents ; for example : fel, fellis, gal, est intestinum animalis ubi est sedes et locus totius amaritudinis et commotionis. Brief references to authors are given. (2) De nominibus balneatorum, etc., containing all the terms relating to bathing, bleeding, and cupping. (3) De medicis et eorum que pertinent ad medicine artes. The definitions here are most interesting : Medicus, Archigenes, artzet, dicitur iste qui ex arte scit curare corpora infir- morum; Aliptes, wundartzet; Pigmentarius, appotecker, artiex . . . preparans medi- cinas und est quasi cocus medici. Siringa is described as a metallic instrument with which a surgeon injects resolving medicines into the virile member in order to dissolve calculi in the bladder. (4) De nominibus quorundam egritudinum, contains seven and a half folios of definitions of diseases.’’—(Osler, Incunabula Medica).
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