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Historical Bibliography Updated: December 1, 2019

Fasciculus medicinae. Add: Petrus de Tussignano: Consilium pro peste evitanda.

Publication Details

Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 1491 CE.

A collection of short medical treatises which circulated widely in manuscript, some as early as the 13th century, and was perhaps attributed by the printers to its former owner, Johannes von Kirchheim, a professor of medicine in Vienna about 1460. His name was probably corrupted by the printers to Ketham. The book includes the first printed anatomic illustrations of any kind. Singer’s edition, which includes his translation of the commentary by Karl Sudhoff, was published at Milan, 1924. The first English translation of Ketham’s text by Luke Demaitre, republishing Singer’s translation of Sudhoff’s commentary, was published at Birmingham by The Classics of Medicine Library, 1988. That edition reproduced the woodcuts in color from an original hand-colored copy at Yale’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, together with selected illustrations from the Italian 1493 edition, with Singer’s commentary. ISTC no. ik00013000. Digital facsimile  from Harvard University Libraries at this link.

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Entry Number#363
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/322
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLfasciculus-medicinae

Geographic Context

Publication place: Venice

Mentioned in annotation: Birmingham; Vienna; Milan