Luminare maius : cinthius vt totum radijs illuminat orbem : illuminat latebras sic medicina tuas.
Imprint:
Venice: [B. Locatellus for O. Scotus, 28 May 1496]
Comments
and Notes:
A pharmacopoeia, compiled mainly from the works of Arabic medical writers.
Incipit (leaf a2 recto) reads: Ioha[n]nis Iacobi de Manlijs de Boscho Alexa[n]drini sup[er] descriptiones antidotarij [et] practice diui Ioha[n]nis Mesue [et] aliorum illustrium medicorum clarissima interpretatio incipit, dicta Luminare maius.
Imprint from colophon (leaf k5 verso), which reads: Opus diligenter correctum [et] a multis doctorib[us] examinatum impressum in inclita ciuitate Uenetiarum per Bonetum Locatellum, mandato [et] expensis nobilis uiri d[omi]ni Octauiani Scoti ciuis Modoetie[n]sis anno saluatoris nostri 1496, die 28 Maij ad laudem omnipotentis dei [et] eius intemerate Virginis. Finis.
Signatures: a-k8.
Final leaf blank.
Text printed in double columns; 66 lines per page.
Initials.
Imperfect: final (blank) leaf lacking.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.
Rubricated t.p.
Some ms. annotations.
Anonymously prepared typed description of this edition ([4] p.) has been tipped in on front free endpaper.
Modern binding of half-cloth over brown paste-paper boards; title stamped on spine.