Softcover
1912 · Munchen
by Ferckel, Christoph
Munchen: Kuhn, 1912. Softcover. Good (facsimile copy, wraps are stained, worn and torn, pages are tanned slightly as expected with age, otherwise the pages are clean). Tan wraps with red lettering and ruling, 81 (2) pp, followed by 21 double paged plates with illustrations. Written in multiple languages. The Gynecology of Thomas von Brabant; a contribution to the knowledge of medieval gynecology and its sources. Selected chapters from De naturis rerum, liber 1. The text is based on Cod. phys. 30 in the Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart; the facsimiles are reproduced from manuscripts of De naturis rerum in libraries of Berlin, Breslau, Krakow und Prague and have no bearing upon the text, but serve as samples of the illumination and illustration of manuscripts.
(Inventory #: 176576)