MAGNINUS MEDIOLANENSIS. Regimen sanitatis. Paris,... Lot 97

MAGNINUS MEDIOLANENSIS. Regimen sanitatis. Paris, Ulrich Gering, March 5, 1483-84. In-4, modern brown jansenist morocco, gilt edges (Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London). (116 ff.), the first (f. ai) blank with handwritten title on recto and handwritten notation on verso. Incunabula Parisian edition by Ulrich Gering, one of the three German typographers who set up the first Parisian printing house in 1470 in the outbuildings of the Sorbonne. This work of hygiene and practical medicine was composed by Maynus de Mayneriis, known as Magninus Mediolanensis. A cleric of the diocese of Milan, he was master regent of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris in 1325 and physician to the Viscontis. Magninus Mediolanensis dedicated this Regimen to André Ghini de Malpighi, bishop of Arras, whose physician he was. In chapter 21, the author gives 14 rules of good drinking, the first of which is not to drink wine while the stomach is empty. The strongest wine must be drunk after the most "debilitated", and the "acquatic" wines must be avoided at all costs, as well as the wines too young, wines that the author accuses of being: "indigesta et impura et ventosa et opilativa et dissenteria inducut". Chapter XV of the third part deals with mushrooms in general and chapter XVI is entirely devoted to truffles. One spine cracked. Freckles, wetness in the upper margin of the last leaves. Small restorations to some leaves. Angular folds to some leaves. Vicaire, 550 - Simon, Bach., 420 - Hain, 10484 (does not mention the first blank page).