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Corona florida medicinae, sive De conservatione sanitates Antonius Gazius, 20 June 1491
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GAZIUS, Antonius (1449–1528).
Corona florida medicinae, sive De conservatione sanitates. Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 20 June 1491.
Illuminated copy of the first and only incunable edition of Gazius’ principal work. An early printed text by a contemporary author, Gazius’
The Flourishing Crown of Medicine; or On the Preservation of Health is an important contribution to literature on hygiene and preventive medicine. Gazius lists his sources in a table following the contents which he divides between doctors, philosophers, clergy and poets, including among others: Galen, Batholomaeus Montagnana and Maimonides; Plato, Aristotle, Socrates and Haly Abenragel; Augustine, Bede and Solomon; and Ovid, Boethius and Virgil. Gazius begins the errata leaf by airing grievances against his printers for misplacing certain letters, for adding and omitting letters and for incorrectly expanding contractions.
This copy’s title-page is finely illuminated with a large initial in gold on a varicolored field, a garland of red and blue flowers in golden leaves surrounding the title. HC *7501; BMC V 341; BSB-Ink G-48; CIBN G-58; GW 10563; Goff G-111; Klebs 439.1; ISTC ig00111000.
Super-chancery folio (314 × 212mm). 125 leaves (of 126, without final blank but with blank t7). Printer’s mark on t6v, incipit leaf printed in red and black and illuminated with 14-line white vine initial in gold on red, blue, green and gold ground, 3- and 4-line initials in alternating red and blue over printed guide-letters, finely drawn floral wreaths around the three-line title and the coat of arms on a1 probably 18th-century (decoration shaved at foot, A1 with large repaired patch above title, A2 with similar patch at lower right corner which touches several words on recto, v1 with lower inner corner reinforced and slight edge-chipping, occasional pale marginal dampstain or spotting, small inkblot on p4). Contemporary French, probably Paris, blind-tooled calf, sides tooled with vertical rolls of a quatrefoil (see Gid, Mazarine, DCi17) and bees (covers neatly laid down on modern calf with scattered repairs and abrasions, modern endpapers).
Provenance: 18th-century coat of arms on a1, probably the Feroldi family of Brescia – few instances of marginalia including early Italian shoulder notes to most of the contents pages – manuscript calculation of the age of this book in 1659 on the printer’s mark.