SOLDUS, Jacobus.

Opus insigne de peste felicit.

      Bologna, Johannes Schriber de Annunciata for Thomas de Bononia. 1478. - Small 4to. [36] leaves. Gothic type. Text printed in double columns; 38 lines to a full column. Initials hand-painted in red. Limp vellum, made up of an antiphonal leaf. First edition of a treatise on the plague and its cure written in 1431 during an epidemic at Florence. Its author, Jacopo Soldi (1370-1440), a physician and humanist scholar, had joined the Order of the Servites, and his plague manual was printed by order of the Dean of the Bolognese Theological Faculty, Thomas de Bononia, a fellow Servite. Soldi’s other medical works remain unpublished. Old collector’s stamp in blank margins of recto of second leaf and on blank verso of last leaf. Bookplate of Hugo Fernandez de Burzago y Barrios. BMC VI, 818; Hain-Copinger 14870; Klebs 921.1; Klebs (Pest) 98; Osler 149; Sudhoff, Erste gedruckte Pestschriften, 98; Wellcome, I, 6001. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]