In vniuersam chirurgiam absoluta institutio : in qua tumorum omnium praeter naturam, vicerum, vulnerum, fracturarumque ossium, ac eorundem luxationum exacta cognitio, facilisq[ue] curatio habetur / Io. Baptistae Cortesii Bononiensis ... ad illustriss. & excellentiss. dominum, D. Ferdinandum Afan de Ribera, marchionem Tariffae, &c.

In universam chirurgiam absoluta institutio

Messanae : Apud haeredes Petri Breae, MDCXXXIII [1633]

22 unnumbered pages, 228, that is, 328 pages, 32 unnumbered pages ; 4to (22 cm)

Signatures: [dagger]⁴ (-[dagger]4) 2[dagger]-3[dagger]⁴ A-2S⁴ a-d⁴.

Title page printed in red and black; engraved t.p. vignette: arms of Afan de Ribera, the dedicatee.

Page 1 misnumbered 2; pages 300-328 numbered 200-228.

Includes index; registrum: recto of leaf d4.

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Engraved frontispiece (representing dedicatee?) bound in after title leaf. Quire 3[dagger] bound before quire 2[dagger]. Binding: 17th cent. parchment, later red goatskin spine label. Lower corner of front free endleaf mutilated to remove inscription. Manuscript signature at head of title page, crossed out: "John (?) Coker, Ch... [illegible] London". This book was formerly part of the collection of the Medical Society of London, which was deposited for safekeeping in the Wellcome Library in 1964. It was eventually purchased by the Wellcome Trust in 1984, with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and other charities.

NLM 17th cent., 2750