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Notes of medical interest on an incunable purchased from the bookseller and printer Giustiniano da Rubiera.
In the library of the monastery of Santa Scolastica there is a copy of the Quaestiones super Aphorismos Hippocratis et libros Tegni Galeni by the Tuscan physician Giovanni Sermoneta (c. 1390-1450). The incunable in Subiaco is one of forty-eight surviving copies of the edition published in Venice on 31 March 1498 by Bonetto Locatelli and Ottaviano Scotti (ISTC is00475000).
Fifteenth-century illustrated edition in the library of Santa Scolastica in Subiaco – Part IV
Among the illustrated incunable editions in Subiaco there are five scientific and philosophical works. There are two scientific texts: the book at shelfmark V.A.15 is a copy of the edition of the De Meteoris by Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-1280), printed probably in Venice by the Dutch printer Reynaldus de Novimagio in May 1488 while the volume at shelfmark XVII.A.5 is a copy of the astronomical tables known as the ‘Alfonsine tables’ after Alfonso X of Castile (1221-1284).
Fifteenth-century illustrated editions in the library of Santa Scolastica in Subiaco – Part III
Among the illustrated incunable editions in the library of Santa Scolastica there are two copies of two different editions of the Fasciculus Temporum, a compendium of ecclesiastical and secular history compiled by the Carthusian monk Werner Rolewinck
Fifteenth-century illustrated editions in the library of Santa Scolastica in Subiaco – Part II, 2
Among the noteworthy illustrated devotional books found at Subiaco are two collections of the Sermones de tempore et de sanctis of St Bernard of Clairvaux and one of the Meditationes vitae Christi.
Fifteenth-century illustrated editions in the library of Santa Scolastica in Subiaco - Part II, 1
There are several illustrated incunable editions of devotional texts in the library of the monastery of Santa Scolastica, now a national monument. They include one edition of the Bible, printed in Venice in 1498 by Simone Bevilacqua, the Sermones of Bernard of Clairvaux and of St Vincent Ferrer, an edition of the Meditazioni di Cristo and one of the Rivelazioni of St Bridget.