Dis ist das Buch der Cirurgia : Hantwirckung der Wund Artzney /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Brunschwig, Hieronymus, approximately 1450-approximately 1512, author.
Uniform title:Chirurgia
Imprint:[Augsburg] : Durch Hannsen Schönsperger zů Augspurg getruckt, an[n]o mxcvij vn[d] volendet im Dece[m]ber [December 1497]
Description:[6], ix-cxxviii leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (folio)
Language:German
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2912211
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Other authors / contributors:Schönsperger, Johann, -1520?, printer.
Schobinger, David Christoph, 1726-1792, former owner.
Provenance:Former owner's inscription: Cristoffel [illegible].
Former owner's inscriptions: 1602 Jun.; 1602 Jun. [illegible].
Former owner's inscription: Quocu[m]q[ue] tollat[ur] Blaubëuren s[em]p[er] meu[m] fatat[illegible].
Former owner's signature: A.S. Schutze.
Woodcut armorial device pasted to front fly leaf, surrounded by pasted on decorative woodcut border (possibly trimmed from the title page of another book); quartered estuchon, two bendlets and gyron; bird vigilant sinister atop sphere; surmounted by horned helm adorned with bird crest.
Former owner's signature: Dav. Chr. Schobinger M. Dr.
Former owners' manuscript annotations in 3 hands, some contemporary; some annotations partially trimmed on fore edge; faint manuscript illustration of a man on leaf xxxiii verso; pen trials and doodle on rear fly leaf.
Bound in at end: 17 leaves with manuscript annotations in 2 hands.
Illustration on leaf [6] verso partially hand colored by former owner.
Binding: Music manuscript waste over boards; manuscript fragment from a Gradual contains the verses "A sagitta volante perdiem" and "Quoniam angelis suis mandavit" from the tract "Qui habitat in adjutorio altissimi" (Dominica 1 in Quadradesima), red 4-line staves with black square notation; manuscript waste visible on inside front board where pastedown is torn; rebacked.
Notes:Incipit, leaf [2]: Hie farht an diss Büch in Cirurgia das da genant ist die Hantwirckung der Wund Artzney vo[n] Iheronimo Braunschweig Wund Artzet der Keyserlichen freyen Stat Strassburg als er von vil herfarn den Artzeten gelernet auch durch sein practica gebraucht hat.
Imprint from colophon.
Explicit and colophon: Mit gnad vn[d] hilff des almechtigen Gotz mir verlihen hast das voldendet ist diss Bůch des ich lang zeit begert hab aus brůderlicher treü durch begirlicher Lieb, doch die Zeit vn[d] stund meinner geschefft halb gekürtzt. Daru[m]b bit ich eüch gelerten vn[d] erfarnen mit hohe[n] fleiss solichs auff zenemen im besten bin die leer vo[n] eüch weiter zůerfaren vn[d] vernemen. Vn[d] diss Werck hab ich mit geoffenbart mit zůgewin od[er] nutz, sund[er] den Menschen zenutz vn[d] hilffe die sein notturfft werden. Auch meiner Seel zů trost vn[d] zů erlösen vor de[n] do vns got allweg vn[d] ewig vor behůt. Durch Hannsen Schönsperger zů Augspurg getruckt. An[n]o [et] xcvij vn[d] volendet im Dece[m]ber.
Woodcut on title page signed "E.G" in scroll.
A reprint of the first edition printed by Grüninger in Strassburg, 4 July 1497 (Hain 4017*).
Signatures: a-x⁶.
Forward and register printed in 2 columns; 39-40 lines; Haebler, types 4:150G, 6:105G; woodcut initials; 40+ large woodcut illustrations.
Leaves xxvi, lvi, lxxv-lxxx, cxi, cxxiii misnumbered "xxvii", "lv", "lxxiiii"-"lxxix", "cxii", "cxxiiii" respectively.
Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ib01226000
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry 05594
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry B-931
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Kongelige Bibliotek (Denmark). Katalog over det Kongelige biblioteks inkunabler, entry 925
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