Two surgical treatises

Contents

1. pp. 1-72 Jacobus de Prato De operatione manuali

p. 1 Scientia, manualis medicine aggregatur ex regulis quibus dirigitur ad successionem laudabilem sui operis ... p. 72 … in capitulo de medicinis remouentibus vestigia vlcerum, et sic est finis primi libri etc. Laus Deo Patri Virginique: et yhesu.

pp. 73-74 blank, save for crossed out scribbling on p. 73

2. pp. 75-201 Thomas Presbyter (John of Tracia), Cyrugia

p. 75 [I]n exordio huius mei opusculi scientiae cyrugiae ... p. 201 Postea revertatur ad primam suam consuetudinem. Explicit Cyrugia Omni Laude Dignissima Venerabilis Presbyteri Domini Thomae; scripta cum supra scripto quoddam opusculo per me bartholomeum Cynthium Scalam pisaurensem Omni diligentia et Cura. Anno domini ['14' and '1560' struck through] 1506 Die 16 Augusti.

This surgical text is ascribed to one Thomas Presbyter here, but on the attribution to John of Tracia see Lynn Thorndike, 'Another manuscript of Leonard of Bertipaglia and John de Tracia', Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 4 (1936), pp. 259-260.

1506

1 volume 200 [mis-numbered 201] pp. folio. 28 1/2 x 21 cm. Contemporary blind stamped calf binding. Two leaves have been cut out between p.72 and p.73. Written in a sloped humanistic hand in two columns, 27-31 lines to a column. Initial S on p. 1 in blue and gold, other capitals in gold and red, headings in red.

Purchased 1910.

Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Written by Bartholomaeus Cynthius Scala of Pesaro, Italy (as per colophon p. 201). Ownership inscription of Francesco Muscini written in a later sixteenth century hand on p. 201.