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Book
1552 (published)
Artist/Maker
Per Ioannem Oporinum (publisher)
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius (writer)
Hagué, Louis (bookbinder)
Place of origin
Basel (published)

[10], 564, [36] p. ; 31 cm. (folio).

Object details

Categories
Bookbinding
National Art Library
Books
Object type
Book
TitleAulus Cornelius Celsus, De arte medica libri octo... (published title)
Brief description
Woodcut printer's device on title-page.
Pantinus' preface dated 1551.
Colophon: "Basileae, ex officina Ioannis Oporini, anno salutis humanæ M. D. LIII. mense Martio."(folio 3F3r).
Rebound in Belgium (ca. 1885) by Hagué. Light brown calf; gold tooling with dark stained sections; raised bands and gold tooling to back; gilt gauffered edges; stylised leaf decoration with central diamond incorporating monogram and sword; roll-tooled board edges.
Physical description
[10], 564, [36] p. ; 31 cm. (folio).
Gallery label
Europe and America 1815-1900, room 101

Book: ‘De Arte Medica Libri Octo’
Published 1552; binding added 1885–90
This classical text on medical practice was written in the 1st century AD by the encyclopaedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus. This copy was published in 1552. In the 1880s the bookbinder Louis Hagué added the gold-tooled calfskin cover which deliberately imitates bindings of the 16th century.

Switzerland, Basel; edited by Gulielmus Pantinus; printed by Joannes Oporinus; bound in Belgium by Louis Hagué
Calfskin, partly stained in black and tooled in gold
Museum no. 984-1897

[07/03/2016]
Other number
984-1897 - NAL accession number
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
984-1897

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Record createdJuly 23, 2015
Record URL
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