History of the RSM - August 2011
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.Librarian's Room 23
Printed by Ugo di Antonio Ruggiero da Reggio, one of the most prominent printers in Bologna.
Girolamo Manfredi (c.1430–92), a professor of medicine and astrology at the University of Bologna wrote this compilation of 568 questions and answers on the human body and the preservation of its health, and causal explanations regarding human behaviour.
Dedicated to his patron Giovanni II Bentivoglio and entitled Liber de Homine (also known as Il Perché), Manfredi's book became a best seller in Italy and was printed there three times in the fifteenth century, and eleven times in the sixteenth century. The first edition from 1474 was one of the first books to be printed in Bologna.
This book, along with fourteen other pre-1501 books from the collection of the RSM Library, can be seen on display on the second floor of the Library until August 26th.
Previous features of the month:
- July 2011 - History of the RSM
- June 2011 - Occult Physick
- May 2011 - William Harvey Lecture
- April 2011 - Improvised bookmarks
- March 2011 - The Blitz
- February 2011 - The RSM Library
- January 2011 - Albert J. Edmunds
- December 2010 - Edward Law Memorial Fund
- November 2010 - George Francis Home
- October 2010 - Herbals
- September 2010 - Florence Nightingale's letters
- August 2010 - Florence Nightingale
- July 2010 - Robert Lee
- June 2010 - William Withering
