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Edited by German physician Johannes de Ketham, this collection of works was written by various medical men of his time and was the first illustrated medical work to be printed. It is made up of multiple medical treatises that discuss such topics as astrology, bloodletting, uroscopy, and women’s health.
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The term incunabulum (singular) or incunabula (plural) translates from Latin as “cradle” and refers to the cradle or infancy of printing. Works printed between the invention of the printing press in approximately 1450 and the end of the 15th century, or 1500, are given this terminology.
This is one of 30 incunabula held in the Reynolds-Finley Historical Library. The binding is unique, with pigskin over wooden boards and a colored coat of arms on the front.
This work includes ten full-page woodcuts: the library of Petrus de Montagnana (a1r); urinoscopic consultation (a1v); circle of urine glasses (a2r); vein man (a3v); zodiacal man (a6v); pregnant woman (b1r); wound man (b5r); disease man (c2r); scene in the chamber of a plague patient (c4v); and dissection scene (d2v).