Regimen sanitatis--Magninus Mediolanensis.

Magnini mediolanensis medici famosissimi attrebacensi episcopo directum. Insuper opusculum de flegbotomia editum a perspicacis ingenii viro magistro Reginaldo de Villanova. [Paris]: Felix Baligault for Claude Jaumar and Thomas Julian, [c. 1500], 126 leaves, 40 lines, gothic letter, 6-line historiated woodcut initials, some initial-spaces with printed guides, printer's woodcut device within borders on title, [CR 3757; Goff M55; CIBN M23; Klebs 840.6; Wellcome 3966]

A. Kühnholt, bookplate

first editions of Arnaldo de Villa Nuova's two treatises. Magninus of Milan's Regimen sanitatis, on health and hygiene, was written in the fourteenth century and first printed at Louvain in 1482.

It appears that these three works (treated separately by GW, Goff and ISTC) were intended to be a single publication: according to GW 2535 Baligault had intended to publish these three works together as a single edition but abandoned his plan during the printing. The copies of De vinis described by GW and BMC have continuous foliation and a first signature xA, both of which indicate a continuation of the Magninus. The present copy, however, is without the foliation and begins with signature A; it appears to be an unrecorded variant. CIBN dates the edition to about June 1500 based on the state of the device.