Saliceto (Gulielmus De) ( -1276)

Chirurgia. (In Italian.) Written in a clear book-hand in double coluumn, 43 lines to a column: form fol. 59 to the end written by a second scribe in a more angular hand, 36 lines to a column. Ornamental initial P with marginal decorations on first leaf, other capitals in alternate red and blue, headings and some paragraph marks in red. Fol. 1 (red) Chi comenza lo libro chiamato/Guielmo fato adi 5 auril. 1456./PRoponimeto del bel/componere lo libro de/la operation natural/... 3, col. 2 (Text beings) GEneralmente amaistramento/E queste cosse che fano mai/stro... 86, col. 2, line 5 e segondo la promission mia/abiando compido con breuita/quello che io promessi de scriuer/regratio lonipotente dio pater/et filii et spiritus sancti Amen.//Laus sit tibi christe quia liber/explicit iste.//finis. (Within pen-drawn ornament.) 86, col. 2-89 Medical receipts in Italian by several late 15th century or early 16th century hands. One on fol.86, for and embrocation [?] is by 'M. Gotofredo barbero da uenessa [Venezia?]'. Possibly, therefore, produced in Venice.

1456

1 volume 90 ll. (last bl.). folio. 33 1/2 x 23 1/2cm. Original half red leather binding over wooden boards: clasp wanting.

Purchased 1930.

An Italian Translation of Salicet's 'Chirurgia' was first printed at Venice in 1474.

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).