Tractatus de fascinatione.

Diego ÁLVAREZ CHANCA (Author)

Pedro Brun (Printer)

Origin: Seville, XV c.
Biblioteca de la Fundación Lázaro Galdiano. Coedition.

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11.383
Facsimile. Incunabula. Collection of Incunabula and Old Books.
84-87988-62-8
978-84-87988-62-2
4º
14 x 21 cm.
22+8 crd.
44+16 crd.
Latin.
1499.
12th September 1999.
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 not yet determined. Included in Bibliofilia Antigua VII.

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Synopsis:

This is the famous Libro del Ojo, as it appears on the title page of the volume, by the physician to the Catholic Monarchs, Diego Álvarez Chanca of Seville, who accompanied Columbus on his second journey and was very briefly quoted by Nicolás Antonio.

This edition was unknown to Konrad Haebler and does not appear in the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Particularly noteworthy are the ornamental border at the start of the text which depicts insects and other animals interwoven with stems and flowers.

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AC History of art / art & design styles
ACN History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600
ACND Renaissance art
AFH Prints & printmaking
AFJ Other graphic art forms
AFT Decorative arts
DNF Literary essays
DSBD Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
HBJD European history
HBLH Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
MB Medicine: general issues
MBX History of medicine
MFC Anatomy
MJQ Ophthalmology
PDX History of science
WCS Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter

1D Europe
1DSE Spain
1DSEA Andalucia, Autonomous Community
2ADL Latin
3H c 1000 CE to c 1500