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MS. Radcliffe Trust f. 1

Summary Catalogue no.: New Summary Catalogue 51840

Fragment of a medical manuscript; England, 14th century

Contents

(fol. 1–7v, 13–34v)
Roger of Salerno, Chirurgia

Beginning imperfect on fol. 13 at I.23 'ista omnia bene terantur', ed. Sudhoff, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Chirurgie im Mittelalter, Leipzig, 1918, II.168

Explicit: Hoc opus in lucem et ordinem redactum est a Martino Guidone Bogice [sic for logice] professionis ministerio...anno...millessimo centesimo sexagesimo decimo regnante gloriossisimo rege Willelmo feliciter
Language(s): Latin
(fol. 7v)
Summa on Roger of Salerno, Chirurgia
Rubric: Glosule Rolandi super post mundi fabricam
Incipit: Si capud vulneratum fuerit et locus apertus

Ends imperf. in ch. 19. There are references to the Chirurgia of Willelmus de Congenis (fol. 10r, 10v).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: xiii+47 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 155 × 110 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 80 mm.

Collation

1(12), 2(10), 3(12). The quires are dislocated; the correct order should be 2, 3, 1.

Layout

32 long lines

Decoration

Plain red initials.

Spaces left for rubrics and initials have not been filled in between fol. 1–12v and 23–34v.

Binding

19th century binding.

History

Origin: 14th century ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

J. O. Halliwell, ‘Lib. MS. Bib. Hall. no. 203’.

Sotheby's 27 June 1840, lot 6

Transferred from the Radcliffe Science Library, 1928

Record Sources

Typescript description by Bodleian Library staff.

Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.