Three Facsimile Volumes on 14th/15th C Thought: John of Ardern, John Irving Davis and Leffranc of Milan (d.1315)
1) ARDERNE, John (1307-1380) 'Treatises of Fistula in Ano, Haemorrhoids and clysters from an early fifteenth century manuscript translation. Edited, with introduction, notes etc. by D'Arcy Power'.
Pub. LONDON: Facsimile Published for the Early English Text Society, 1910. Original Series no 139, by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1910. Collation: 8° p8 b8 c4 B-K8 L6 ($1 signed, $1 ARDERNE) 98 leaves; pp. [10] ix-xxxvii [1] 1-156. 'John of Arderne's most important contribution to surgery was his operation for the cure of anal fistula. This was written about 1376. At one time John of Arderne practiced at Newark-on-Trent; he moved to London in 1370.' (Garrison & Morton 3416).
Quarter red leather and board, gold leaf title to spine, very minor foxing with tanning. The MS is British Museum Sloane 6 starting on leaf 141. Bound by Green of Melbourne. References: Garrison & Morton 3416. Bookplate: Ex Libris K.F. Russell. (215x140mm)
2) DAVIS, John Irving (ed.) (20th C) 'Animalium: a Fifteenth Century Bestiary' (A booklet on the nature of animals).
Pub. LONDON: Facsimile published for Dawsons's of Pall Mall 1958, with an introduction by J I Davis. Facsimile of original, which was printed sometime between 1508 and 1512, by Vicenzo Berruerio in Mondovi, Italy. Sometimes attributed to Albertus Magnus, though unlikely. Most probably based on 'Physiologus' a medieval collection of animal tales with unspecified author(s).
Cream board cover with golf leaf title, some foxing and spots. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell (140x210mm)
3) LANFRANC of MILAN (d. 1315) 'Science of Cirurgie' Ashmole MS 1396.
Pub. LONDON: Early English Text Society, Original Series 102 Reprint 1894. Collation: 8° p2 B-Z8 2A4 ($1-2 signed, $1 SURGERY) 182 leaves; pp. [4] 1-360.
A manuscript in English compared with Addit. MS British Museum 12056. The first 157 pages are split with Addit. MS British Museum in lower half. This manuscript finishes on page 157 and the other continues. 'Lanfranc, the founder of French surgery, was a pupil of William of Salicet. He enjoyed a great reputation for his lecturing and bedside teaching. His Chirurgia magna was completed in 1296. According to Hirsh and other it was first published in Venice in 1490, but no copy of this edition has been traced. ... an English version appeared in 1565 and the Early English Text Society published an Old English version, Science of Cirurgie, 1894. Lanfranc was the first surgeon to describe cerebral concussion and to distinguish between simple hypertrophy and cancer of the breast.' (Garrison & Morton 5553).
Bound by Green, Melbourne in quarter red leather with buckram boards, minor foxing. Reference: Garrison & Morton 5553, Bookplate: Ex Libris K.F. Russell (215x140mm)


PROVENANCE:
Collection Late Kenneth F. Russell (1911-1987), Professor of Anatomy and Medical History, University of Melbourne.

Estimate $120-180