Magninus Mediolanensis, 5 March 1483/84.

MAGNINUS MEDIOLANENSIS (d. c.1368). Regimen sanitatis. Paris: Ulrich Gering, 5 March 1483/84.

Second edition of a popular work on preventative medicine. By Maino de Maineri, master of the University of Paris and physician to King Robert the Bruce and the Visconti rulers of Milan, it is a ‘medical discourse relating, among other things, to hygiene with regard to age, sex and climate, during illness, convalescence, and epidemics [...] At least eleven editions were issued before 1550’ (Stillwell). Magninus also discusses the mental health benefits of physical exercise, food groups, music, reading and friendships in addition to physical treatments including cupping, bloodletting and other remedies. Margaret Stillwell, The Awakening Interest in Science during the First Century of Printing, 1450 –1550 (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1970). Caroline Proctor, Perfecting Prevention: The Medical Writings of Maino de Maineri (doctoral thesis, University of St. Andrews, 2006). H *10484; CIBN M-20; BSB-Ink M-293; Bod-inc M-016; GW M19897; Goff M-52; Klebs 640.2; ISTC im00052000.

Chancery quarto (202 × 132mm). 115 leaves (of 116, without first blank). Opening initial in interlocking red and blue, other initials and paragraph marks in red (neatly repaired marginal fore-edge tear in last 4 leaves). 18th-century mottled calf, gilt spine, red edges (mottling lightly worn, minor repairs at spine).