Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.681

Autre forme de la cote :
- London. Wellcome Collection, MS.681
- London. Wellcome Library, MS.681
- Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.681
- Wellcome Library, MS.681
Conservé à : Londres. Wellcome Library
Date de fabrication :
- Mid 15th Century
Composition :
- 1 volume; 252 leaves folio. 29 x 21 cm. 17th century. vellum binding. The end of Book XVI is wanting, and Book XV is unfinished. In the last 20 leaves the text is badly injured by oxidization of the ink, though the margins are unaffected.

Notes

Continens: libri XIII-XVI; incomplete, and in an abbreviated version.
Written in double column of 40-44 lines to a column: some headings in red, and some paragraph marks in red, or alternate blue and red. The script is an Italian semi-cursive gothic, the same throughout. A number of leaves are missing at the end as may be judged from the pen-drawing of a rose on the fore-edge of which about a quarter is wanting: on the upper edge the letters, 'RAS' are faintly visible. The spine is lettered 'Liber Medicinae'.
Fol. 1, col. 1 (red) Incipit liber XIIIus/de apostemate appellato squirros/de apostematibus solidis... line 11 [D]E libro signorum/dixit Squirros est/apostema inflatum et/durum... 252, col. 2 ...Binbahrin cum uo/. cabulis logicalibus secundum descriptiones/earum Vnum nos compleret uolentes/.
The Books XIII-XVI of this MS appear to correspond with the description given of the Venice edition of 1542 as found in Haller's Bibliotheca Chirurgica 1, p. 127-131.
Book XV is unfinished, and ends abruptly at fol. 182v, col. 2 in the middle of a sentence: 'usque ad hoc' written in the margin.
This work was first printed at Brescia in 1486.
Purchased 1911.

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).