Written on vellum: the Chirurgia (leaves 1-25) in red and black ink; the Chirurgia Salernitana (leaves 26-41) also has red and blue letters, with a decorative first initial. c.f. De Ricci and the Harvey Cushing Collection cited below; also correspondence from Erwin Rosenthal of L'Art Ancien S. A. Buchantiquariat, firm from which Dr. Cushing purchased the manuscript in 1935.