Cirurgia magistri Rogerii. Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg".

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Description

Title
Cirurgia magistri Rogerii. Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg".
Alternative Title
Chirurgia : Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg"
Chirurgia
Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg"
Bamberg Surgery
Creator
Ruggero, Frugardo, active 12th century
Contributor
Ruggero, Frugardo, active 12th century.
Published / Created
between 1150 and 1199.
Publication Place
Italy
Abstract

Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of the Chirurgia (ff. 1r-25r) and the anonymous Chirurgia Salernitana or Bamberg Surgery (ff. 26r-41r).

Description
In Latin.
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.
Available also on microfilm.
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.
Extent
1 item (41 leaves) : 200 mm x 135 mm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Call Number
Manuscript 10 Vault

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Annotations 13th century
Annotations 14th century
Annotations 15th century
Manuscript waste
Material
parchment ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Topic)
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine
Manuscripts
Surgery, Medieval
Subjects
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine > Manuscripts > Early works to 1800
Surgery, Medieval > Early works to 1800
13th century
14th century
15th century
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
4465306
Object ID (OID)
16960290

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