Saliceto (Guilelmus de), Chirurgia: libri I, II, V cap. 3-9

Chirurgia: libri I, II, V cap. 3-9. In Italian. Written in a neat rounded semi-gothic hand in double column, 30 lines to a column. Some initials, headings and paragraph marks in red. F. 1, col. 1 CApitolo primo dell acqua congregata ne/1 capo delli mamuli nouamente nati./... 2, col. 2 CApitolo. 67. dello tagliamento s/opre la ventosita et fumo chiarm/ente de membro in membro et dello grande dolore. 3, col. 1 [A]Dmaestramento e che qu/actro cose sonno necessarie/per la qualocosa alcuna men/bra pate... 40, col. 2 ... et la/cta cesia ouero el timore non empedisca./(red) fornisce lu primo libru co/menca el secundo./Capitulo primo del cadimento... 72, col. 1, line 16 apresso de la figura de la ferita ouero de la pia/ga. Explicit secundus liber. line 18 [Beginning of Liber V. Cap. 3] [DE]Elle medecine repercoxiue et comfortatiue/... 78, col. 1, line 27 ...nel membro/forte sempreme ouer se inficche.//[A]D laudem et honorem domini nostri ihesu/(col. 2) christi et eius matris marie virginis et/sancti sebastiani martiris et omnium appostolorum/sanctorum atque sanctarum dei sit nobis aiutrice/in fine secula seculorum amen. Remedia straordinaria per tutti i mali [etc.]. [In Latin]. 78, col. 2, line 5 [P]Rimo dum surexeris [sic] de mane ante/exieris de habitatione tua... 79v, col. 1 [Nature malanconaci] Non expers fraudis timidus luccique coloris./DEO GRATIAS AMEN. 79v Receipts in Latin: col. 1, line 3 Experimentum magistri tome de garbo a/d ornamentationem pedum et aliorum membrorum./Recipe ungenti agrippe... col. 2 et pro/hec propinanda sunt stictica que habent stringere/orifita venarum. There is a contemporary foliation 1-77, which excludes the two leaves of the list of contents, at the beginning.

c.1475

1 volume 79 ll. folio. 29 1/2 x 21 1/2 cm. Early 16th century stamped leather binding over wooden boards, repaired and rebacked: both clasps wanting. Somewhat stained throughout.

Purchased 1910.

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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