Lanfranc of Milan

Date:
1508
Reference:
MS.398
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Chirurgia magna: in German (incomplete). With an interpolated Epitome of Surgery, in the form of Question and Answer, basedon Lanfranc's work; and a collection of receipts for plasters, ointments, etc. Written by Johannes Weisspurgensis.
  • Epitome of Lanfranc: Fol. 1 Offt vnnd dieb hab ich pey/mir selbs betracht die wundersam/men werck des schoppfers der na/turen wie er an dem anbegynn/der himel hat beschaffen die may/ster der wunden ein erczney vnd/zuo painpruchen die alle nach iren/gestaltten zehaillen wie hernach/volgt./Die wunden des hawbts/der sind zwelff... 15v Was ist die vnterschaid welliches/gelid beschirmt ist Oder wirct das/bedarff kains widerschlagenns. 16 Blank.
  • Lanfranc. Tractatus IV. Incomplete: 17 Hie vachet an der viertt tractat/diez buchs der ist von der missleg/ung aller gelider vnnd hat zwey/Synn der erst Synn hat Syben capitel vnnd ist von den painpr/uchen Ain gemain Regel/... 51v [Synn 2. Chapter 5.] (Vonn dem glaich dess fuess)... an den nichtz guts volbracht wirtt Also/ 52 Blank.
  • Epitome in form of question and answer: Fol. 53 Hie hebt sich an ain gutte nutzliche/lere wie man die wunnden vnnd/schaden erkennen soll vnnd wamit/man sy haillen sol wie hernach/vologt.//(Frag) Item Am aller erstenn von den einfel/tigen wunden... 158v ... zwo einer/yetlichem krannckhaitt be/sunnder etc. deo gracias./Waistu vill wenig sag ver/antwurt nicht alle frag/Der ist ain weyser meann/(fol. 139) Der die redt behalttenn kann. Blank.
  • Receipts for plasters, etc.: Fo. 141 Hie hebt sich ain buch an vonn/den Pflasteren In mangeriai/matery gemacht vnnd zu dem/ersten das berlein pflaster. 201 (Ad faciendum tricttum)...ist gutt zum/hawbt vand magenn. Ff. 201v-211 Blank.
  • Lanranc. Tractatus I, Doctrina (Ler) 3: (Chapter I, and the beginning of 2 wanting) Fo. 212 taillen Vngelesths calchs vnnd zwen/taill Wenzauchs... 281 ... In der wunden Des/hawbts vnnd der nerui.
  • Lanfranc. Tractatus II: Fol. 281, line 6 Hie vacht an der annder/Tractat vnnd ist von den taillichen vnnd besunderen/wunden... 371v ...vnnd/weystte haillung vnnd regierung/zu thum.
  • Lanfranc. Tractatus III (Wanting after the beginning of Chapter 8 of the second Doctrina (Ler)): Fol. 371v, line 5 Hie valchtt an der dritt trac/tat vonder haillung der/annderen siechtagen die nitt/wunden sein... 479v, line 11 Das acht capittel der andern/lere des dritten Tractats Ist/von den apostenn das vmb die/glid der gaist erscheint mitt/ainem hof/er etc. Iohannes weispurgensis/anno Im 8 Iare/in die epi[pi]hanie scripsit. 480, line 3 ... So resoluier es in dem/annfang doch das ye vor ein/reinigung bestechte.
  • Publication/Creation

    1508

    Physical description

    1 volume 481 ll. (last bl.) 4to. 19 x 14 1/2 cm. Modern vellum binding over wooden boards. Written in a neat semi-current hand 18-20 lines to a page.

    Acquisition note

    Purchased 1911.

    Biographical note

    The introductory passage on fol. 1 is similar to that of the beginning of the printed 'Herbarius zu Deutsch' of 1485. The assignment of the date to 1508is confirmed by an entry on fol. 168v 'Ein gut vngennt zu den vergifften blattern malafrantz'-a remedy for syphilis compounded of sulphur and 'wagensch' [? figs.]. A German version of Lanfranc's 'Chirurgia magna' is noted in Sudhoff's Chirurgie im Mittelalter (Leipzig 1918) pp. 469-471, a quoted passage from which corresponds closely with the text in this MS. (Tractatus III, Doctrina, 1, Chap. 6.) In the same work (pp. 603-616) Sudhoff mentions a 'Buchlein uber Art und Behandlung von Apostemen in Frage und Antwort'. This seems almost certainly to be a part of the same work as that in this MS. on Ff. 1-15, 53-139. Though he refers to the division of the work into 'Tractatus' and 'Doctrinae' ('Lere'), he does not link it with the Treatise by Lanfranc, with which these divisions actually correspond, so that it seems most probable that the 'Question and Answer' treatise is an epitomized and popular version of Lanfranc's more elaborate surgical text-book.

    Ownership note

    From the Payne Collection. Sotheby's Catalogue, No. 407.

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    Database description transcribed from 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).

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