Dis ist das büch der Cirurgia Hantwirckung der wund artzney vo[n] Hyero[n]imo brau[n]schweig.

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Brunschwig, Hieronymus, approximately 1450-approximately 1512, Dis ist das büch der Cirurgia Hantwirckung der wund artzney vo[n] Hyero[n]imo brau[n]schweig, December [14]97

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Brunschwig, Hieronymus, approximately 1450–approximately 1512

Title(s):

Dis ist das büch der Cirurgia Hantwirckung der wund artzney vo[n] Hyero[n]imo brau[n]schweig.

Additional Title(s):

Title should read: Ist das büch der Cirurgia

Dis ist das büch der Cirurgia Hantwirckung der wund artzney von Hyeronimo braunschweig

Chirurgia

Hie facht an diss büch in Cirurgia das da genant ist die hantwirckung der wund artzney von Iheronimo Braunschweig wund artzet der keyserlichen freyen stat strassburg als er von vil herfarn den artzeten gelernet auch durch sein practica gebraucht hat

Buch der Cirurgia. 1497

Published/Created:

Augsburg : Johann Schönsperger, December [14]97.

Physical Description:

[6], ix-Cxxviii [that is, 126] leaves : illustrations ; 26 cm (fol.)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0820
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:

Full Orbis Record:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4040353

Classification:

Books

Notes:

A reprint of the first edition printed by Grüninger in Strassburg, 4 July 1497.
Contains first detailed account of gunshot wounds in medical literature.
Title from title-page on leaf a1 recto.
Incipit on leaf a2 recto: Hie facht 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.
Title as cited by ISTC: Chirurgia.
Imprint from ISTC.
Colophon on leaf x6 recto, which reads in full: Mit gnad vn[d] hilff des almechtigen gotz mir verlihen hast das vollendet 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 vo[n] mir, wan[]ich begeren 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]c. xcvij. vn[d] volendet im dece[m]ber.
Signatures: a-x⁶.
Errors in foliation: leaves 7-126 are numbered ix-Cxxviii; leaves xxvi, lvi, lxxv-lxxx, Cxi, and Cxxiii misnumbered xxvii, lv, lxxiiii-lxxix, Cxii, and Cxxiiii respectively.
Main text printed in single column, forward (leaf a2r) and register (leaves a3r-a5v) printed in 2 columns; 39, 40 lines to a page, and headline.
With foliation and signatures; without catchwords.
Woodcut illustration on title-page signed "E.G" in scroll.
Includes 48 mostly full- or half-page woodcut illustrations (many are repeated). Generally, they depict the master surgeon, his apprentices, his patients, and his instruments in a variety of scenarios. There are also smaller illustrations of surgical instruments within the text.
Woodcut Lombardic initials.
Incunabula short title catalogue, ib01226000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B1226
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 4019*
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 5594
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, II, page 371
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 3643
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0820: Imperfect: 10 leaves only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Yale med copy is incomplete: ends with leaf 78.
Yale med copy has contemporary binding by K150 Hirschrolle, Regensburg. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.

Subject Terms:

Incunabula in Yale Library.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Medieval.
Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Wounds and injuries -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)

Contributors:

Schönsperger, Johann, -1520?, printer.

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