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Cirurgia magistri Rogerii. Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg"

Title
Cirurgia magistri Rogerii. Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg".
Created
Italy ; between 1150 and 1199.
Physical Description
1 item (41 leaves) : parchment ; 200 mm x 135 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
First title from title page. Second title assigned by cataloger.
Script: late carolingian minuscule.
Decoration: ff. 1r-25r: one large twenty-line red initial; one- to three-line red initials with decorative flourishes. Ff. 26r-41r: one three-line red initial with gold background and blue floral decorations, two-line alternating red and blue initials. Rubrication throughout.
Layout: ff. 1r-25r: 1 column of around 4o lines; ff. 26r-41r: 1 column of 33 lines.
Binding: original wooden boards covered with tawed sheepskin. Cover has title and notarial sign in black ink. Remnants of 2 fore edge clasps closing to back cover.
Bound with 14th-century fragment used as front pastedown, containing Ps-Bartholoaeus Mini De Senis's Tractatus de Herbis. Incipit: debent poni in ... Explicit: Syr[upus] acetos[us] val[et].
Place of production: origin said to be Italian. However, paleographical evidence points to a German origin. Fore edge clasps closing to back cover points to Spanish or Southern French origin of binding.
In Latin.
Provenance
Marginalia in different hands (13th-15th century) containing cryptograms. Said to be from Austrian monastery. Spine inscribed 669 (or 699) in 19th-century blue ink. Accompanying documents include transcription of the marginalia, list of subheadings, correspondence between Harvey Cushing and Richmond C. Holocomb, M.D., George W. Conner, Dr. Leon Nemoy, and Erwin Rosenthal of L'Art Ancien S. A. Buchantiquariat, firm from which Dr. Cushing purchased the manuscript in 1935. His bequest to Yale Medical School Library.
Summary
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of the Chirurgia (ff. 1r-25r) and the anonymous Chirurgia Salernitana or Bamberg Surgery (ff. 26r-41r).
Variant and related titles
Chirurgia : Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg"
Chirurgia
Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg"
Bamberg Surgery
Other formats
Available also on microfilm.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
De Ricchi, S. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, errata and addenda, 1937, addition to p. 953, 10
The Harvey Cushing Collection of Books and Manuscripts, 1943, manuscript 52
Genre/Form
Annotations - 13th century.
Annotations - 14th century.
Annotations - 15th century.
Manuscript waste.
Citation

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