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Compendio dela salud humana.

Johannes KETHAN (Author)

Pablo Hurus (Printer)

Origin: Zaragoza, XV c.
Biblioteca Nacional de España.

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I/51
Facsimile. Incunabula. Collection of Incunabula and Old Books.

978-84-87988-93-6
Folio
20,3 x 29,5 cm.
67+3 crd.
134+6 crd.
Spanish.
15th August 1494.
30th November 2008.
3000+80+50+30
Parchment on wooden board.
Medicine.
Presentation dust jacket cloth lined with gold engraved leather spine containing facsimile.
Numbered by notary and signed by the printer-publisher.
Specially made laid paper.
Optional: Study in Spanish: author yet to be determined. Included in
Bibliofilia Antigua XIII.
Engravings of the Human Body.


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Synopsis:

It is an unnamed translation to Castilian from the Latin work Fasciculus medicinae, a compilation whose partly author and partly compilator, known as Johannes de Kethan in the first edition of the Latin text in Venice, in 1491, has been tried to identify, not very convincingly yet, with Hans von Kircheim (active between 1455 and 1470), a teacher of Medicine in Wien, that used this compilation of texts for his lessons and as recommended reading for his pupils. We know that this compilation, as a manuscript was going around from the start of the XV century. It's been also mentioned that von Kircheim lived in Venice, where several editions were made.

This copy belongs to the first edition, made in Castilian, and printed in Spain, printing finished, as it is said on the colophon, on the 15th  of August 1494 in Pablo Hurus' Zaragoza workshop.

The text is displayed in double column, gothic typescript, with xylographic initials, however it shows provisional small letters for initials, and with small prints on the text and on the side margins. The chapters are preceded by prints. On the back of the title page a print in the shape of a wheel can be seen with the 'Tabula primera de las vrinas', in the title page of the second sheet there is a print showing two seated doctors, having a scientific conversation; then there are some double page prints (in this copy one of them is missing). It includes as well a praying to Saint Sebastian, against the plague, in Latin, with a xylographic print of the Saint, just before adding the Tractado de la peste of Vasco de Taranta.

The restored copy, shows on the title page, a note  saying: "Reconocido y aprouado por el Ldo. Pe. frai Xabierri, fraile de Santo Domingo en predicadores en Çaragoça año 79", and  two prescriptions in writing of the style of  XVI and XVII centuries; another prescription appears at the end of the work.

It is the second known copy in this edition, sadly it does not have the descriptive print of the anatomy of a female body, preceding the sheet signed C3, and with the sheet signed e2 incomplete. It has just lost its known condition of uniqueness, as there is another also missing parts Dr. Francisco Guerra’s private library, added recently to the Biblioteca Histórica de la Universidad Complutense in Madrid.

The copy displayed was among the works exhibited in The New York Public Library, in 1985’s exhibition “Tesoros de España: Ten Centurias of Spanish Books”.

 

IBIC Rating:

AC History of art / art & design styles
ACN History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600
ACND Renaissance art
AFF Drawing & drawings
AFH Prints & printmaking
AFJ Other graphic art forms
AFT Decorative arts
AGH Human figures depicted in art
DNF Literary essays
DSBB Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
DSBD Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
HBJD European history
HBLC Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
MB Medicine: general issues
MBX History of medicine
MFC Anatomy
PDX History of science
WCS Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter

1D Europe
1DSE Spain
1DSEC Aragón, Autonomous Community
2ADS Spanish
3H c 1000 CE to c 1500