104 - (Bernardus de Gordonio.

(Bernardus de Gordonio. *Practica seu Lilium medicinae*... Venice, Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, Dec. 22, 1498). Folio fragment. With woodcut initials and printer’s mark. 88 (of 130) leaves (numbered leaves 42–96 and 1–33). Modern print based on an old manuscript (Torah?). GW 4084. Hain 7800. Proctor 5095. Pellechet 5277. — Haeser, vol. I, p. 711. Bernhardus de Gordonio, one of the most famous physicians of the Middle Ages, presumably came from one of the various places in France bearing the name Gourdon (or possibly from Scotland), and taught in Montpellier from 1285 onward. In 1305, he began work on his long-esteemed magnum opus, *Lilium medicinae*. - The numbered leaves 1–41 and the left-hand blank leaves (a–e8, f1, and ee6) are missing. The beginning shows heavy water stains along the margins. Two leaves at the beginning have wormholes in the margins. Several underlinings and marginal notes in an old hand. - Text in Gothic type in two columns with woodcut initials, featuring many interesting contemporary manuscript marginalia. Missing the first 41 numbered leaves (ff. a8–e8, f1, and ee6).