Jaffa de Ast, Giovanni: collection of medical receipts in Italian

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Liber chirurgiae qui summa vocatur. A collection of medical receipts in Italian. Written in a semi-current hand: 25-26 lines to a page. Heading to the Index, paragraph marks and early foliation in red. As the old foliation began on fol. 1 of the text, the MS. has been re-foliated, starting with the first leaf of the volume. Gaps in original foliation for f.128 and f.165. A number of entries have been struck through or blotted over-most of these appear to be charms to cure sickness, or because of indecency of the subject (aphrodisiacs, etc.).
f. 1 'Unguento per dolor et indegestion de stomacho' by an early 16th cent. hand.
f.2 Blank.
f.3 (red) Questa e la rubrica de le recepte di questo presente libro de / cirogia quale fu componudo per magistro giouanne de Iaffa / de ast. quale se domanda summa supra diuerse Infirmitate nate ouero per douere nascere in li corpi humani extracte da / molti auctori e philosophi. [Added perhaps later in black, and the date erased] Scripta per magistro / Paulo Rainari [?] lanno [?] // Prima a facere renascere li pili (red) folio 1.
f. 27v A fare morire li podegri 148.
ff. 28-30 A few index entries by an early 17th cent. hand.
f. 31 INcipit liber cirugie compositus a magistro Iohanne de / Iaffa de Ast medico qui sum[m]a vocatur super diuersas / egritudines humani corporis natas et nascituras / extractus a multis auctoribus et philosophis. Et primo / de capilis dicemus... 177v (A fare che li pelli se lassarono piliare in laqua)...se lassarano andare / destelli per laqua e se lassarano pigliare.
ff. 178-183v Remedies against plague. These are probably later additions: on fol. 179, line 15 is a reference to the plague at Bâle in 1438, and on fol. 181, line 17, to an outbreak at Pisa in 1457. Below these are medical receipts by early 16th cent. hands.
f. 184 Receipt for an unguent, c. 1450.
f.184v Medical receipts by an early 16th cent. hand.
f.185 Anonymous account of a voyage made during the expedition to Tunis in 1535. Adi ii di luglio il [15]35 in sabbato mattina parti il Signor / da sancto secondo imposte per andare a imbarcharsi / a Genoua per andar in affrica all'impresa di tunesi / sopra la sua borsa... 187 ...si andassi In trapani / cosi la mattina con ghagliardissimo uento ci [Last line cropped].
f.187v Accounts of expenses. 'Debita mei Joannis danno 1521'.
f.188 Short index by a 16th cent. hand.

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