William of Parma, Chirurgia

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Title

William of Parma, Chirurgia

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 76

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiv med.

Language

Anglo-Norman

Middle English (1100-1500)

Latin

Fols. 14–108v WILLIAM OF SALICETO Chirurgia

Added materials Discounting leaves associated with the modern rebinding, fourteen vellum leaves have been added at the ends of the book, ten (fols. 1–10) at the front and four (fols. 110–13) at the rear. Of these, fols. 1 and 113 have been used as pastedowns in an earlier binding. At the front, fols. 3–10 are a quire of eight, with fol. 2 a single; fols. 110–13 at the end are a quire of four. The texts here include:

medical notes, in the main recipes, in Latin and English (only one brief bit of French in the first section). Added in a variety of hands, s. xv; the English items described OT 85–6.

b. Fol. 3v: Incipit: Confiteantur tibi domine omnia opera tua et sanncti tui benedicanti tibi Gloria Sicut k k k Pater noster Et ne nos […]

c. Fol. 4: Incipit: [an alphabet, followed by] gaude virgo mater cristi que per au⟨r⟩e⟨m⟩ concepisti gabrielis nuncio

d. Fol. 4: Incipit: Per crucis hoc lignum fugat procul omne malignum Et per eadem lignum saluetur quodque benignum Confitemini domini quoniam bonus […] Confitior deo celi et beate marie et omnibus sanctis ⟨..⟩ nobis peccaui

e. Fols. 6–9v: coloured drawings of surgical implements.

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).

Physical extent

Fols. xiii (numbered fols. i–iii, 1–10) + 99 (numbered fols. 11–109) + vii (numbered fols. 110–13, iv–vi).

Hands

Written in gothic textura rotunda. Punctuation by point and occasional punctus elevatus.

Decoration

Headings in text ink underlined in red.

At initia, 2-line blue lombards on red flourishing; alternate red and blue paraphs to break up the text.

Running titles, ‘Liber’ and the appropriate number across the opening in blue and red.

See AT, no. 307 (31) and plate xxii (fol. 8).

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf and two modern paper flyleaves (i–iii); at the rear, two modern paper flyleaves and another marbled leaf (iv–vi).

Provenance

‘Iohannes Wryghtson’ (fol. 4v, s. xv/xvi); ‘Thys boke ys on crystys curs ys anodyr | he that stellyth the ton y pray goed send hym ƿe todyr | quod Iohannes Wryghtson’ (fol. 5v).

The old shelfmarks ‘2/m’, ‘D.12’, ‘Abac: ij N. 71’ (cancelled) and ‘76’ (fol. iv).

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