[Cipriano di Bologna. Libro della spagirica. Early …]

Cipriano di Bologna. Libro della spagirica. Early 17th century. In Italian.
Tract on medicine in two books. Book I is numbered [2], 1-758 with 636 and 713 lacking; Book II is numbered [2], 1-212 with 63, 64, 165, 166, 179, 180 lacking, pp. 197-212 wrongly bound after p. 164 and 8 unnumbered pages (6 blank) inserted after p. 40. Book I describes human illnesses and their cures. It contains an ink drawing of the signs of the zodiac to be associated with the various parts of the body on p. 6 and astrological tables on pp. 9, 11, 12, 230, 231, 236, 238. There are notes in a different hand on pp. 684-699. Book II describes minerals, animals and vegetables. It has a drawing in ink of some apparatus on p. 83. There are notes in a different hand on p. 28 and p. 41. Several lines on both title pages have been inked over and are only partly legible. The title page to Book I begins: In nome di Dio e della Santissima Vergine Maria e di St Gioseffe et St Francesco [one line illegible] raccolta et prattica di Fra Cipriano di Bologna [two words illegible]. A second hand has added: Adesso di Fra Nicolo da [two words illegible] 1634... The title page to Book II has had the name of Fra Cipriano di Bologna inked over and that of Fra Nicolo da [?] superscribed and also inked over. The date 1635 also appears, in the same hand that made the additions to the title page of Book I.
On spine 'Libro della Spagyrica Manoserto 1634'.

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