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R.14.29

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Shelfmark R.14.29
Manuscript Title

On Surgery etc
Alternative Title

Chirurigia Guiscardi etc
James Number 902
Century 13th14th
Physical Description

Several volumes.
Provenance

On the flyleaf: For Trinity College Library. John Wilson (xviii).

The obits in the Kalendar are of Oxford origin. The Kalendar itself is foreign. Also names (xv) John Byeres. On f.1 at top (xv) Curtays. On f.2b
This boke ded thomas Curtes bey of the parsun of hoptuns brother. Record off Eglyn off bovrgate.
Second Folio uero sibi-
Donor Wilson, John, fellow of Trinity ( ),
Size (cm) 21 x 14.5
Folio 210 ff.
Material Parchment
Language LatinMiddle English
Collation

110 (10 canc.) 28-48 5? (two left) 68-168 (wants 7, 8) || 176 188 192 (+ 2*) || 208-238 244 258-278 || 2912 (+ 1).
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R.14.29/manifest.json
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Contents

On f.1 in two columns:
I. 1. Ut testantur omnes auctores tria sunt instrumenta per que medicus debet operari.
2. Hic inc. cyrurgia Salernie f.2(1)
Cent. xiv early, 21 lines to a page.
Post mundi fabricam eiusque decorem
-per ordinem prescribendo.
f.3b Capitula (48)
f.6b Quibus modis capud uulneretur et de signis lesionis panniculorum
Capud uulnerari diuersis modis contingit.
f.46a Liber II. Nemo prolixitatis
f.68b Liber III. Quod tanti operis
f.105 Liber IV. Huic operi finem
Ends f.119b
et hec de cyrurgia sufficiant.
Hic expl. cyrurgia mag. Rogeri Guichardi, a mag. Guidone Aretino suo discipulo prosecuta et ab eius doctore laudata.
Some receipts in the same hand follow.
The last (f.121(120)) is
Hec sunt uirtutes aque uite quas ego sepe probaui.
On f.121b is a drawing in red ink of a distilling machine for making aqua vitae.

II. Of cent. xiii, in a small pointed hand.
1. f.122 Kalendar-tables (of Golden numbers etc.) in red and black, followed by verses explanatory of them. These verses have a marginal comment
They begin
Alphabeta duo que ter deca quinque figuris
sunt inscripta decent tabulam que fungo uocatur.
End f.126b Inter natale quadragenamque sitarum.
The years mentioned run from 1240 to 1492.
2. f.127 a list of materia medica. Alphabetical
Aurea dicta est ab auro.
Ends f.131b
Zinziber conditum sic fit etc.
Added paragraphs on Siropus and Diacaparis.

III. Cent. xiv like the hand of I.
f.132 Kalendar in red and black
Jan. Genouefa. Launomar Abb. Guillermus Ep. red.
Feb. Transl. S. Frideswide, added.
28. Transl. S. Aug., added.
22. Missa pro anima Domine Ele de Longespeie cum placebo et dirige, added xiv.
Mar. 1. S. Dauid, added.
2. S. Cedde. Missa pro anima mag. Philippi turnel (?) et sunt ordinaciones, added xiv.
12. Added. Missa pro h. de guldeforde.
Patrick, Edward Cuthbert, added.
Ap. 3. S. Ricardi ep., added.
29. Roberti Abbatis. Peter Martyr, in red.
May 1. Briocus, in red. Missa pro W. gy... (added).
2. Inicium predicacionis christi.
10. Added. Ob. Reginaldi bedelli cum placebo dirige.
13. Added. Semper quarta feria post temtacionem missa pro gilberto de Roubiry.
18. Added. Inv. S. Frideswide.
25. Missa pro Gilberto de S. Leupardo.
June 3. Liphardi presb.
5. Added (possibly xv). Joh. de bofis cordewener deuant la mostre en chaudebeke.
6. Antoninus, in red.
7. Gurgali Ep.
16. Added. Missa Lang.
21. Leueredi Abb.
25. Added. Missa pro h. herclay le. fe.
July 6. Added. Missa de cessacione de trinitate.
8. Killiani M.
16. Iustiniani Ep.
18. Clari Ep.
29. Guillermi Ep., in red.
Aug. 19. Dedic. eccl. S. Saluatoris.
Sept. 3. Remacli Ep. C.
Lambert. Amandus. Firmin.
28. S. Eucardus Ep. tur.
Oct. 4. Francis, inserted, 1.5 lines of title.
10. Missa de resumpcione de S. Spiritu.
19. Added. S. Fredeswide V.
19. Amatus Ep.
20. Caprasius.
22. Mellionis Ep. C.
23. Romani Ep. C.
26. Transl. Amanti Ep. C.
27. Rictudris V.
Nov. 3. Huberti C. et Ep.
7. Willebrordi Ep.
23. Added. Missa pro Ela corn.
30. Added. Missa pro Elianora regina.
Dec. 6. Missa pro Johanne de pontois.
17. Missa pro Henr. de Lacy.
Tables of the signs of the Zodiac follow.

IV. Cent. xiv, double columns of 34 lines.
f.139 Inc. hic comentum quatuor magistrorum salernie
Sicut dicit constantinus, humores.
Initial: blue ground, in two tiers, each containing a figure of a seated doctor holding a casket and speaking to a pupil on R.
At the foot of this page is the following note (xiv):
Transies per Auinun (Avignon) post Auinun ix leuce ad Asath (?Apt). post Asath vi leuce ad Manoaska (Manosque). De Manoaska vi leuce Anarayis (? Rians). Sub castello de Anarayis inuenitur mineria salis petri. et distat Anaraye per unam leucam de Bariolis (Barjols) ubi est magnum forum qualibet die sabati.
Liber II. f.166b Initial of a doctor operating with knife on the back of a man's neck. Both stand
Liber III. f.175b
Liber IV. f.190b
Ends f.197a
quoniam comedere semel nocet eis sicut dicit auicenna.
Explicit.
Some further notes on leprosy follow.

V. Cent. xiii, xiv, 25 lines to a page. (Constantini) Liber coitus.
Creator uolens animalium genus firmiter.
A blank space of nearly a page on ff.203b, 204a.
Ends f.209b
in qua fuerit opium solutum. Expl. liber coitus.
On f.210
Zinziher conditum sic fit, etc.
Memorial verses (xiv) on f.210b.

Bibliography

Cartelle, E. M., Constantini liber de coitu (Santiago de Compostella, 1983)

Mooney, L. R., The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist 11: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1995), p. 31

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