The inventory of chirurgy.

Description

Title: The inventory of chirurgy.
Creator: Guy, de Chauliac, approximately 1300-1368.
Contributor: Byrom, John,--1692-1763--Ownership.
Chetham's Library Ownership.
Guy,--de Chauliac,--approximately 1300-1368.
Nott, Thomas,--Sir,--1606-1681.
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: [England],
Abstract: Manuscript, on paper and parchment, in a single hand, of a Middle English translation of de Chauliac's treatise on surgery and other aspects of practical medical treatment, particularly of wounds.
Description: Binding: fifteenth-century blind-stamped full calf over wooden boards, rebacked; remains of later hardware. Binder's label on back pastedown: W. H. Woods & Co. / Manchester / 1879.
Decoration: seven large decorated initials; numerous smaller initials in blue with red penwork.
Includes 5 inserted slips.
Layout: double columns of 54 lines.
Previously owned by Sir Thomas Nott; John Byrom; Chetham's Library, Manchester. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Script: cursive bookhand.
Support: mixed. 101 paper leaves, 52 parchment leaves.
Wanting ff. 2-3. Some gaps and errors in foliation.
Extent: 153 l. : paper and parchment ; 375 x 265 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Format: text
Genre: Decorated initials
Manuscript waste (Binding)
Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.
Marginalia
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Byrom, John,--1692-1763--Ownership.
Chetham's Library Ownership.
Guy,--de Chauliac,--approximately 1300-1368.
Nott, Thomas,--Sir,--1606-1681.
Subject (Topic): English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medicine, Medieval.
Medicine--Early works to 1800.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Surgery--Early works to 1800.
Surgery--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

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Citation: A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Guy de Chauliac, Inventory of Chirurgy. Takamiya MS 59.