De sermonum proprietate, sive, Opus de universo

De sermonum proprietate, sive, Opus de universo

Incunabula

Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856

Excerpts

This encyclopedia of a ninth-century archbishop is the oldest incunable in the Boston Medical Library collection. The De sermonum proprietate contains chapters on subjects as diverse as the earth, animals, precious stones and metals, heretics, paradise, time, and sewers, but it is also the earliest printed book known to contain a section devoted to medicine, De medicina et morbis, [On medicine and disease].

Excerpt from the section de medicina et morbis from Rabanus Maurus' De sermonum propietate (Strassburg, before 20 July 1467)

Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856

Adolf Rusch

1467 July 20, before

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Boston Medical Library Rare Books Collection (Ballard folio 587)

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Bequest of Dr. William Norton Bullard to the Boston Medical Library, 1931