Medicine Incunabula INCUNÁBULO DE MEDICINA.- [KETHAM, Johannes de].- EPILOGO EN MEDICINA Y CI | RUGIA CONBENIE[N]TE ALA SALUD [Fasciculus medicinae] .- Burgos: Juan de Burgos, 1495.- LXVIII f.: il.; 31 cm.- B. Exemplary work (incomplete) of one of the two editions published in Spain in 1495 of what is considered the first work of illustrated Medicine, originally printed in Venice, in 1491. Traditionally attributed to the German Johannes de Ketham, of whom one knows only that he practiced medicine in Vienna in the second half of the 15th century, the edition consists of a collection of texts by several authors, including the Portuguese physician Vasco de Taranta (active Between 1383 and 1418), who wrote about the plague, and also the Scottish Michael SCOTUS (ca. 1175-1232), mathematician and translator of Averrois. Interestingly, it does not include any text from Johannes Ketham himself. Entirely composed of two-column Gothic characters, the volume opens with a page in which the centre apears the engraved title on the stippled bottom (cribblé); On the back a “Tabula primera de la urinas “ (first illustration), followed by the prologue (F. a2r to a4r.), illustrated with a large initial vignette. The nine texts or treaties deal with very diversified themes, namely, “de las urine (I) “, “de la flebotomia o sangrias (II) “, “de los XII signos (III) “, “de las dolencias de las mugeres (IV) “, de la cirugia de las llagas & unguentos, de todas las dolencias & enfermedades (VI)”, “de la peste (VII)”, “de la phisionomia (VIII)” e “de la generacion o formacion de la criatura (IX)”. The volume, loose in binding and very handled, has numerous imperfections and flaws, the most serious being the following: Four leaves are missing: xxvi, XXVII, xxviii and XXIX; first leaf is very handled, with numerous notes of the time on the front and loss of support, partially affecting the engraving of the back; The two main illustrations (double leaf inserts): XIIII and XXV (female and male anatomies respectively) with loss of the upper half; Two leaves (XVII and XXXXII) with severe loss of support and text; Outer margin of the first 30 leaves are gnawed, without prejudice to the text; Other defects of difficult discrimination. Apart the great vignette of the prologue and the “Tabula de las urinas“ (back of the first leaf), still retains two illustrations of full page: On the back of Leaf XI and back of the leaf xxxii. Body of the book wrapped in modern protective alkaline card case. Goff, K18; 246 Haebler. Pellechet, 4585. Incunables en libraries Españolas, 3410.